Technical Lead, AWS Cloud Integrations & Kafka

Crane Worldwide Logistics; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Incentive Plan

Paid Time Off 17 days

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Recognition

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Discounts

Wellness Incentives

Job summary

Crane Worldwide Logistics in Houston, TX seeks a Technical Lead to serve as lead engineer for a Software Integrations team. You will own solution design, guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and deliver greenfield integration platforms that support critical business operations.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager, requires 8+ years of experience, deep .NET/F#, Kafka, and AWS, and involves architectural decisions, code reviews, and helping scale cloud-native services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering delivering production systems.
• Deep expertise in .NET ecosystem, F#, and functional programming principles.
• Strong experience designing and operating event-driven systems with Kafka.
• Cloud-native applications on AWS with CI/CD, testing, and observability.
• Strong software architecture, API design, and integration patterns.
• Proven ability to lead design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Comfortable shaping approaches for greenfield initiatives through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and major initiative decisions.
• Set and evolve engineering standards and architectural patterns.
• Drive scalable, observable, reliable systems and platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers, conduct technical interviews, and support hiring.
• Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Data teams to deliver solutions.

Skills

Leadership

.NET/F#

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Solution design

Technical mentoring

Architectural patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Crane Worldwide Logistics in Houston, TX seeks a Technical Lead to serve as lead engineer for a Software Integrations team. You will own solution design, guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and deliver greenfield integration platforms that support critical business operations.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager, requires 8+ years of experience, deep .NET/F#, Kafka, and AWS, and involves architectural decisions, code reviews, and helping scale cloud-native services.