Tech Lead Manager (EM)

Requirements:

• 10+ years building backend systems, and you are still hands-on. You can point to code you wrote recently and are proud of.
• Deep JVM experience. You have debugged distributed systems where the failure was not in the code you wrote.
• Production depth in Kafka, Redis or Memcached, and APIs over gRPC and REST, Kubernetes at high throughput.
• You have led engineers technically: design review, mentoring, raising the bar on a team. Formal people-management experience is welcome but not required.
• You use AI tools in your actual work and can say specifically where they help and where they mislead you.