Tech Lead (Event-Driven Architecture)

Goods & Services; Mexico; Hybrid; PHP 3,281,000 - 4,739,000; Full time

Job summary

Goods & Services seeks a Tech Lead (Event‑Driven Architecture) to shape and guide the platform’s event‑driven architecture, setting scalable patterns and technical direction across engineering teams.

You will drive architectural decisions, enforce standards for event infrastructure, and ensure reliable, scalable services with domain-driven design and robust schema governance.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures on AWS including EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions, and Schema Registry.
• Experience leading incremental, feature-flagged migrations and modernization of legacy systems (strangler pattern).
• Strong understanding of domain-driven event modeling and schema governance across teams.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, mentoring engineers and resolving cross-team dependencies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own and guide architecture decisions across multiple engineering workstreams.
• Establish and govern event-driven architecture standards and schemas.
• Define and maintain domain event contracts for scalability.
• Partner with DevOps to define production rollout strategies.
• Guide feature flags and incremental deployment with safe rollouts.
• Review schema changes and ensure testing and compatibility.

Skills

Event-driven architecture

AWS

EventBridge

SQS

Step Functions

Schema Registry

Domain-driven design

Event modelling

Event contracts

Schema governance

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

API design

DevOps collaboration

Release strategies

Feature flags

Traffic ramping

Rollback approaches

Tools

EventBridge

SQS

Step Functions

Schema Registry

Job description

About Goods & Services

Goods & Services is a product design and engineering company. We solve mission-critical challenges for some of the world’s largest enterprises, with deep expertise in highly regulated industries—including life sciences and financial services. Our design-led approach allows us to apply cutting‑edge capabilities in AI, Data and Hardware Engineering to companies of any size. Headquartered in the United States, we operate regional development centers in Mexico and the United Kingdom. This global footprint—anchored by our nearshore model—enables us to deliver at scale with the speed, efficiency, and cultural alignment our clients expect.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

About the job

Goods & Services is looking for a Tech Lead (Event‑Driven Architecture) to define and guide the platform’s event‑driven architecture, establishing scalable patterns, standards, and technical direction across multiple engineering teams. This role will drive key architectural decisions, ensure consistency across services and integrations, and enable teams to build reliable solutions against a stable, scalable foundation.

What you’ll do:

• Own and guide architecture decisions across multiple engineering workstreams, ensuring consistency with the overall event‑driven platform strategy.
• Establish and govern event‑driven architecture standards, including event infrastructure, schema management, messaging patterns, error handling, and standardized event structures.
• Define and maintain domain event contracts and schemas to ensure consistency, compatibility, and scalability across current and future platform capabilities.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to define production rollout strategies, including traffic‑ramp criteria, validation requirements, and stabilization periods.
• Guide feature‑flag and incremental deployment strategies, ensuring services can be introduced, validated, and rolled back safely without disruptive releases.
• Review and govern schema and architectural changes, ensuring compatibility, quality, and appropriate testing before changes are introduced across dependent services.

What you’ll need:

• Deep hands‑on experience designing and implementing event‑driven architectures on AWS, with experience using services such as EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions, and Schema Registry.
• Proven experience leading incremental, feature‑flagged migrations and modernization of legacy systems, using strategies such as the strangler‑fig pattern while maintaining system availability.
• Strong understanding of domain‑driven event modeling, event contracts, and schema governance/versioning across multiple teams and services.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or workstreams, including mentoring engineers, resolving cross‑team dependencies, and unblocking complex technical challenges.
• Strong experience with architectural governance and technical standards, including reviewing design changes, establishing engineering patterns, and ensuring consistency across distributed services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud‑native architectures, including asynchronous communication, service dependencies, fault tolerance, and reliable message processing.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs and backend services within event‑driven and service‑oriented architectures.
• Strong technical communication and decision‑making skills, with the ability to communicate architectural trade‑offs and align engineers and stakeholders around technical direction.
• Experience designing safe deployment and rollout strategies, including feature flags, traffic ramping, validation criteria, and rollback approaches.

Nice to have:

Experience in lending, financial services, fintech, or risk management.