Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead — AI-Driven Platform

Upper Hand; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Upper Hand is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive end-to-end software initiatives across Rails, React, Java, and PostgreSQL. You will own architecture, define API contracts, and champion AI-enabled development while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.

You will collaborate with leadership on roadmaps, optimize PostgreSQL performance, and lead incident response in an environment using GCP, CI/CD, and modern microservices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and shipping production software.
• 2+ years as technical owner of projects or a team.
• Proven track record leading software development end to end including scoping, design, delivery, rollout.
• Production Rails,

Responsibilities

• Lead software development projects end to end — scoping, design, execution, rollout, and post-launch measurement.
• Own architecture and implementation of features spanning React front ends, Rails and Java services, and PostgreSQL.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, and data models across our microservice architecture.
• Serve as the team's AI-enablement lead — establish the workflows, patterns, and guardrails for AI-assisted development, and teach mid-level and junior engineers to use them well.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through design reviews, pairing, and 1:1 guidance.
• Set coding standards, review practices, and architectural patterns across the team.
• Drive PostgreSQL optimization — query tuning, indexing, partitioning, connection pooling, replication.
• Own technical risk assessment and mitigation for major feature releases.
• Champion observability — logging, alerting, and monitoring best practices in GCP.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on roadmap planning and capacity estimation.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, libraries, and approaches with disciplined rigor.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response.

Skills

Leadership

End-to-end ownership

AI-assisted development

Mentoring

System design

Code quality

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

Java

PostgreSQL

Node.js

GCP

REST/GraphQL

Metabase

CI/CD

Job description

Upper Hand is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive end-to-end software initiatives across Rails, React, Java, and PostgreSQL. You will own architecture, define API contracts, and champion AI-enabled development while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.

You will collaborate with leadership on roadmaps, optimize PostgreSQL performance, and lead incident response in an environment using GCP, CI/CD, and modern microservices.