Technical Lead (Remote)

Role Overview

GovCIO is hiring a Technical Lead (Remote) to join a hands-on leadership team building a secure, event-driven digital submission and processing platform for a federal agency customer. This role is fully remote and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

What You’ll Do

Technical leadership (day-to-day)

• Serve as the day-to-day technical authority: direction, unblocking, and decision-making.
• Establish and drive engineering culture (code quality, review practices, documentation, team communication).
• Own architecture decisions in partnership with senior leadership by documenting tradeoffs, building consensus, and driving resolution.
• Mentor engineers across experience levels and invest in individual growth.
• Co-run technical ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, architecture reviews, and retrospectives.
• Translate product/business requirements into clear technical plans the team can execute.
• Proactively surface technical debt, risks, and blockers before they become incidents.
• Partner with Technical Director, Product/PM, and operations stakeholders as the engineering team’s primary technical voice.

Individual contributor responsibilities

• Design, implement, and review full-stack features across TypeScript/Node.js backend services and React frontend.
• Build and evolve event-driven pipelines, task orchestration, and asynchronous workflows.
• Lead integrations with AI/ML and OCR-based document processing partners (define contracts; ensure reliability across system boundaries).
• Modernize AWS infrastructure for current-generation services using containers and infrastructure-as-code.
• Own and improve CI/CD for reliability, deployment velocity, and observability.
• Enforce security, authentication, and authorization patterns suitable for regulated environments.
• Diagnose and remediate production issues (performance bottlenecks, data integrity, deployment failures).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of full-stack engineering experience in production systems (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering with clear ownership of team outcomes.
• Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend experience.
• Solid React (or equivalent modern frontend framework) experience.
• Proven experience designing event-driven/workflow-oriented architectures.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills (schema design, transactional workflows, migrations).
• Hands-on AWS experience: EC2, ECS/ECR/EKS, S3, IAM, SSM.
• Experience owning/improving CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Comfortable operating in regulated/high-assurance environments (government/finance/healthcare).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating with AI/ML APIs and OCR/document intelligence platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS container/serverless patterns (e.g., ECS Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions).
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g., Terraform, CDK).
• Keycloak (or comparable identity/auth) experience.