Tech Lead, Software Engineering (.NET. React)

This is a remote position
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Software Engineering Tech Lead to provide technical leadership, project execution, and people leadership for a team of software engineers. This role combines hands-on software development responsibilities with accountability for technical direction, engineering excellence, and team development.
The Software Engineering Tech Lead is responsible for designing and delivering scalable applications using C#, .NET, SQL, React, and modern API architectures. The role actively contributes to application development while leading technical design, code quality initiatives, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices.
The Tech Lead provides day-to-day leadership for engineers, mentors team members, conducts code reviews, and ensures successful delivery of secure, reliable, and maintainable software solutions. The role works closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver business value while continuously improving development processes and technical standards. Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

- Lead the technical delivery of software projects using C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, React, and modern web technologies.

- Enforce engineering standards, development practices, and architectural guidelines defined by technology leadership.

- Contribute to application designs, database designs, APIs, and code to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and security.

- Make technical trade-offs and architectural decisions that balance business needs, delivery timelines, and long-term maintainability.

- Identify and mitigate technical risks before they impact delivery, quality, or system performance.

Software Development

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, and backend services.

- Lead the development of modern user experiences using React and related frontend technologies.

- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, queries, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.

- Drive implementation of automated testing, code quality controls, and secure development practices.

- Participate directly in software development and remain hands-on with application architecture and implementation.

Quality, Performance, and Reliability

- Establish engineering practices that improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability.

- Ensure applications meet performance, scalability, availability, and security requirements.

- Drive adoption of monitoring, diagnostics, and operational tooling to proactively identify and resolve issues.

- Lead root cause analysis and resolution efforts for production incidents and critical defects.

Team Leadership & People Management

- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and mentorship for software engineers.

- Conduct performance management activities including goal setting, feedback, career development, and performance evaluations.

- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and development of engineering talent.

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

- Serve as the primary technical escalation point for the engineering team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.

- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans.

- Communicate technical decisions, project status, risks, and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders.

- Contribute to roadmap planning and help define the future technical direction of applications and platforms.

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of software engineering experience developing enterprise applications.

- 7+ years of strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and RESTful API development.

- 5+ years of strong experience with MS SQL, PostgreSQL database design, optimization, and performance tuning.

- 2+ years