Tech Lead: Hands-on Coach for Distributed Ownership

New Horizon Medical Solutions LLC.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

New Horizon Medical Solutions LLC. seeks a hands-on Tech Lead to drive the technical health, quality, and execution of an engineering team in a production SaaS environment. This player-coach role emphasizes enabling engineers to make strong, well-documented decisions aligned with established patterns.

You will balance delivering features with managing technical debt, security, observability, and platform health while directly mentoring engineers and shaping team growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience building and operating production SaaS applications.
• 5+ years experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Familiarity with Angular and SPA development.
• Experience with containers and cloud-native application patterns.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery.
• Experience with DevOps ownership including deployment, observability, reliability, and production support.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, data modeling, performance, scalability, and security.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical decisions and developing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical governance and foster distributed ownership and decision-making.
• Drive ADRs for significant decisions and ensure tradeoffs are considered.
• Ensure engineers lead technical design with guidance rather than prescriptions.
• Oversee engineering best practices across design, development, testing, security, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Maintain visibility of technical debt and architectural risk; manage accordingly.
• Join production incidents to provide technical leadership and problem-solving.
• Directly manage, mentor, and develop engineers; set expectations on quality, ownership, and performance.
• Collaborate with Product to translate priorities into technically sound plans, ensuring proper technical discovery and design.

Job description

New Horizon Medical Solutions LLC. seeks a hands-on Tech Lead to drive the technical health, quality, and execution of an engineering team in a production SaaS environment. This player-coach role emphasizes enabling engineers to make strong, well-documented decisions aligned with established patterns.

You will balance delivering features with managing technical debt, security, observability, and platform health while directly mentoring engineers and shaping team growth.