Tech Lead

Title: Tech Lead

Contract- 6- 12 Months

Interview Process- Torc assessment, SME interview and Client interview

MOI: Video

Location: hybrid in Malvern, PA-locals

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to act as the technical authority for one or more strategic initiatives. The Tech Lead will define architecture, service contracts, and technical roadmaps while providing strong engineering leadership across backend, cloud, and frontend concerns.

The short-term emphasis of this role is technical discovery, solution design, and planning, laying the foundation for successful downstream delivery and team scaling.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Serve as the lead developer and technical authority for the initiative(s)

Design system architectures and define technical roadmaps

Decompose ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable technical plans

Define, document, and negotiate service and API contracts with partner teams

Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resiliency, and maintainability

Identify technical dependencies, risks, sequencing, and trade-offs

Hands-On Engineering

Remain hands-on in development, particularly during implementation phases

Review code and enforce engineering best practices and quality standards

Support complex technical problem-solving across the stack

Collaboration & Planning

Work closely with product, partner teams, and stakeholders to shape scope and priorities

Help determine which initiative to start first based on technical readiness and risk

Inform Decisions On Future Team Composition And Required Skillsets

Team & Delivery Model

Work within a single cross-functional team supporting multiple initiatives (initially not in parallel)

Support a flexible staffing model with engineers rotating in or out based on phase and needs

Contribute to APIs that are primarily internal-facing, with some UI components potentially external-facing

Influence when and how additional engineers are added as scope and priorities become clearer

Required

Core Technical Skills (Priority Order)

Python or NodeJS (backend) and Angular (frontend)

AWS experience, including services such as: ECS, Lambda, S3, Glue

DynamoDB

Preferred / Learnable

Typescript

GraphQL

Java

Experience With Additional Databases (to Be Determined)

Ideal Candidate Profile

Strong technical depth with a solution-oriented mindset

Proven experience providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on

Strong background in resilient system and cloud-native design

Ability to work effectively across: Backend services, Cloud infrastructure, Frontend/UI concerns

Comfortable operating in environments with high ambiguity and evolving requirements