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Technical Lead - Engineering Talent Acceleration | Onsite - Delaware

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap and delivery of the developer portal (self-service tooling, documentation, service catalog).
  • Deliver DORA metrics and OKR dashboards to measure delivery health across engineering teams.
  • Identify and prioritize friction points in the developer experience; ship platform/process fixes.
  • Define and evangelize modern architecture patterns and testing practices as organization-wide guidance.
  • Set standards for production operations (on-call, runbooks, operational readiness) across teams.
  • Design and deliver the technical curriculum for upskilling engineers, including on AI-assisted development (Copilot, Claude Code, and emerging tools like BMAD/Kiro/GSD etc).
  • Drive community building initiatives (guilds, brown bags, internal tech talks) and organize hackathons.
  • Evaluate and pilot new AI development tools/skills, and decide what gets adopted org-wide.
  • Run day-to-day delivery of the offshore development team supporting the portal and dashboards: sprint commitments, code review, real-time unblocking, and hands-on work on critical-path items.
  • Report delivery status, risks, and blockers to engineering leadership.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as a tech lead owning end-to-end delivery of developer-experience or platform initiatives (not a pure design/review architect role).
  • Proven track record of shipping developer-platform initiatives on committed timelines, including hands-on troubleshooting under delivery pressure.
  • Proven experience building and operating a developer portal (e.g., Backstage or equivalent).
  • Strong experience designing DORA metrics/OKR dashboards and using them to drive engineering improvement.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose organizational friction points and translate them into platform or process solutions.
  • Deep, broad knowledge of modern architecture patterns and testing practices across multiple tech stacks.
  • Experience with production operations standards (incident response, runbooks, SRE practices).
  • Proven experience designing technical curricula and running enablement/training programs at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) and evaluating emerging tools.
  • Experience running hackathons and community-building programs.
  • Financial-services or regulated-industry engineering-culture experience preferred.
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to influence across the engineering org and directly manage day-to-day delivery of an offshore team (standups, unblocking, sprint accountability).

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • Direct experience with Backstage plugin development.
  • Familiarity with emerging AI dev tools (Specprime, BMAD, Kiro, or similar) beyond mainstream Copilot/Claude Code.
  • Experience speaking at or organizing external developer conferences/meetups.
  • Background in technical training/curriculum design as a primary discipline (e.g., prior DevRel or L&D role).

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 56,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 196,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post

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