Tech Lead, Engineering

Trader Interactive; Virginia Beach (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Trader Interactive seeks a Tech Lead, Engineering to report to our HQ in Virginia Beach, VA and may work remotely. You will provide technical direction for engineering teams delivering complex product initiatives, drive daily execution, and design scalable solutions across multiple languages and frameworks.

You will ensure observability, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers to uphold high standards.

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field with 4–5 years of full‑stack development experience.
• Experience leading an engineering team or driving large‑scale architectural changes across multiple teams.
• Strong knowledge of frontend frameworks and modern web technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and leadership for engineering teams delivering complex product initiatives.
• Drive day-to-day execution, ensuring work is well scoped, prioritized, and aligned with goals.
• Design, implement, and test high-quality, scalable solutions across languages and frameworks.

Skills

Technical leadership

Full-stack development

CI/CD pipelines

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability/Monitoring tools

Production systems tooling

Job description

Tech Lead, Engineering for Trader Interactive LLC to report to our HQ location in Virginia Beach, VA and may work remotely.

• Provide technical direction and leadership for engineering teams delivering complex product initiatives.

• Drive day-to-day technical execution, ensuring work well scoped, prioritized, and aligned with business and technical goals.

• Design, implement, and test high-quality, scalable solutions across multiple languages and frameworks.

• Ensure technical documentation created and maintained, including design docs, system flows, and operational guides.

• Develop and maintain technical project plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource considerations.

• Collaborate with Product and stakeholders to define requirements, success criteria, and delivery priorities.

• Ensure systems owned by team have appropriate monitoring, logging, and alerting in place, considering performance and cost.

• Lead efforts to improve system observability, proactively identifying trends, anomalies, and reliability risks.

• Regularly review system health metrics and dashboards to maintain high standards of uptime and performance.

• Lead troubleshooting efforts during production incidents, guiding teams through resolution and prevention.

• Ensure CI/CD pipelines support safe, repeatable deployments (testing, rollback, automation).

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical solutions with user and business needs.

• Serve as a primary technical liaison within the product triad, ensuring transparent communication and shared understanding.

• Communicate CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and technical constraints to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Provide mentorship, guidance, and technical leadership to engineers across team.

• Promote culture of engineering excellence through high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and operational ownership. ID skill, process, or knowledge gaps and partner with engineering leadership to address.

• Encourage innovation by exploring improvements to existing systems, processes, and technologies. Daily administrative tasks.

• Rate of pay: $147,500/YR.

• May undergo background checks.

• Must have Master’s in Comp Sci, Comp Engineering, relevant Engineering or other related field and 4 yrs relevant exp in full-stack web development experience, including modern frontend frameworks and leading an engineering team or driving large-scale architectural changes across multiple teams OR Bach in Comp Sci, Comp Engineering, relevant Engineering or other related field and 5 yrs relevant experience in full-stack web development, including modern frontend frameworks and leading an engineering team or driving large-scale architectural changes across multiple teams.

• Also requires skills (4 yrs exp) in: building and operating production systems; troubleshooting complex production issues and lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts; working closely with product managers and cross-functional partners to align technical solutions with business and user needs; maintaining CI/CD pipelines and local development environments.