Full Stack Tech Lead

Programmers.io; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking an experienced technical leader to drive architecture, coding standards, and cross-regional delivery across globally distributed teams. You will define technical direction, oversee code reviews, and coordinate stakeholder expectations while mentoring engineers and ensuring high-quality, scalable platform development.

The role involves hands-on coding for critical features, DevOps oversight, and collaboration with stakeholders across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of programming experience or 4+ years with a PhD
• Experience setting technical direction for a team and driving cross-functional partnerships
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale platform development, integrations, and on-call production support

Responsibilities

• Architecture and Design: define technical architecture with client stakeholders for scalable, secure delivery across globally distributed teams
• Code Quality: lead code reviews and promote engineering best practices
• Technical Decisions: drive framework/library choices balancing innovation and business needs
• Problem-Solving: coordinate issue resolution across stakeholders and teams
• Diff Review: lead and own the diff review process within the team
• Team Metrics: monitor delivery metrics with domain head for transparency
• Sprint Leadership: lead sprint planning, daily standups, retros, and coordination across time zones
• Cross-Team Collaboration: bridge stakeholders in US, Singapore, UK with India-based devs
• Knowledge Sharing: drive documentation, handovers, and cross-training
• Hands-on Coding: contribute to critical features when needed
• DevOps and CI/CD: support deployments and automated testing
• Experience leading teams in Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement domains
• Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or relevant technical field

PhD (optional)

Job description

Candidates from the following domains are preferred:

General Accounting & Asset Accounting / Finance Operation / Fintech / Oracle ERP integration/Payables / Receivables / Purchasing / Revenue, Credit & Collections

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Architecture and Design: Partner with client stakeholders to define technical architecture that supports scalable, secure, and high-performing delivery across globally distributed teams. Help create and maintain design documents that clearly communicate technical direction to stakeholders globally.
• Code Quality: Ensure coding standards are met, lead code reviews, and promote engineering best practices to ensure consistency, maintainability, and shared accountability in a distributed delivery model.
• Technical Decisions: Drive critical decisions on frameworks, libraries, and technologies by balancing innovation, business priorities, stakeholder expectations, and implementation realities across regions as necessary.
• Problem-Solving: Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues, coordinating timely resolution across stakeholders and development teams while maintaining momentum and clarity.
• Diff Review: Lead and own the diff review process within the immediate team.

Team & Operational Management

• Team Metrics: Monitor and report on delivery and engineering metrics, in conjunction with the domain head to provide transparency to stakeholders and support continuous improvement.
• E.g. Deployment Frequency, Work in Progress (WIP), Cycle Time, Defect Density, etc.
• Sprint Leadership: Lead sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and other operational activities in a way that supports collaboration, accountability, and smooth execution across time zones.
• Manage Sprint Board (when applicable): Oversee sprint board hygiene, task movement, backlog readiness, and equitable task distribution to maintain visibility and execution discipline across the distributed team.
• Communication Standards: Ensure the team documents work and comments consistently in accordance with client and internal expectations so stakeholders and delivery teams have clear, traceable context.
• Planning and Estimation: Partner with stakeholders globally to break down features, clarify scope, and estimate timelines with development teams in India.
• Risk Management: In conjunction with the domain head, help identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early, communicate them clearly across stakeholder and engineering groups, and drive mitigation or escalation as needed.
• Mentoring: Support junior and mid-level engineers through code pairing, technical guidance, while fostering strong collaboration habits in a globally distributed environment.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the primary bridge between stakeholders in the US, Singapore, and the UK and development teams in India, ensuring shared understanding of priorities, requirements, timelines, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate clear, timely, and structured communication between business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating business goals into actionable technical plans and relaying progress, risks, feedback, and decisions back to stakeholders.
• Knowledge Sharing: Drive documentation, code comments, handovers, and cross-training activities that improve continuity, reduce dependency on individuals, and support effective collaboration across regions.

Other Responsibilities

• Hands-on Coding: Contribute to implementation, especially for critical features, prototypes, or complex technical areas, while balancing leadership and coordination responsibilities.
• DevOps and CI/CD: Support smooth deployments, monitor system health, and reinforce automated testing and release discipline to enable reliable delivery across distributed teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 4+ years of experience + PhD
• Track record of setting technical direction for a team, driving consensus and successful cross-functional partnerships
• Hands-on experience with managing enterprise scale platform development, integrations, and on-call production support
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques, especially in an enterprise environment
• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as a team lead and/or technical architect with a large scope across one or multiple domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)
• In-depth knowledge of one or multiple functional domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)