Senior Software Architect & Tech Lead

TalentHackers; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentHackers is seeking a hands-on software engineer to lead a team delivering complex web applications. You will drive architecture decisions, review work across backend and frontend, and own the deployment pipeline while mentoring engineers to reach a stable, scalable system.

You will balance hands-on coding with strategic leadership, manage timelines, and communicate status to leadership on a cadence. Strong Python and TypeScript skills with SQL fluency are required, along with cloud-aware

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development and project management experience.
• Project management — you have owned a delivery timeline, not just a backlog, and have brought a project in against a date.
• Team management — experience leading engineers day to day: assigning work, reviewing it, unblocking people, and having the direct conversation when something is off track.
• Python — production experience building and maintaining backend services.
• TypeScript — production experience on the frontend and/or in Node services.
• SQL — fluent in writing, reading, and optimizing queries; comfortable reasoning about schema design and query performance.
• API development — you have designed APIs that other teams or customers consumed, and you know what makes them painful to consume.

Responsibilities

• Architect and provide technical direction: assess current system, define target architecture, document decisions and set coding standards.
• Lead hands-on delivery: write critical path code, own deployment pipeline, and ensure quality while avoiding bottlenecks.
• Manage a team of engineers (contract and/or in-house), break work into trackable units, and drive cadence like standups and planning.
• Own the delivery plan: estimates, sequencing, dependencies, weekly leadership updates, and proactive risk management.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

API development

Project management

Team management

Leadership

Job description

TalentHackers is seeking a hands-on software engineer to lead a team delivering complex web applications. You will drive architecture decisions, review work across backend and frontend, and own the deployment pipeline while mentoring engineers to reach a stable, scalable system.

You will balance hands-on coding with strategic leadership, manage timelines, and communicate status to leadership on a cadence. Strong Python and TypeScript skills with SQL fluency are required, along with cloud-aware