Elite is the trusted automation platform for law firm operations across most of the world’s largest and most successful law firms. Elite has guided firms through every technology shift and today delivers the only cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies financial, invoice, time, and data management into a single system of action. With embedded AI, predictive analytics, and integrated payments, Elite’s products enable firms to shorten billing cycles, reduce write-offs, and unlock firm-wide insights, making financial operations the foundation for law firm innovation and growth. Learn more at elite.com.
Job Description:
As a Tech Lead Engineer, you are senior member of the team who is responsible for ensuring the quality, architectural integrity, and technical health of one or more applications. You will take leadership over different technical projects, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy in partnership with seasoned engineers, build and oversee technical debt backlog and promote continuous improvement over Elite’s SDLC and DevOps. This position requires deep expertise in finance business-critical and cloud-native solutions, along with a relentless drive for technical excellence, scalability, and innovation in modern engineering workflows. You will play a critical role setting technical direction for our Financial SaaS applications and collaborating with multiple teams.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead architectural design, code quality, and long-term technical strategy across complex systems and applications.
- Write and review clean, efficient, and scalable code—ensuring best practices in coding standards, testing, and documentation.
- Own end-to-end delivery of technical projects, managing scope, risk, performance, and release timelines.
- Design and implement scalable system and data architectures aligned with business goals and cost-efficiency.
- Evaluate and integrate modern technologies, frameworks, and platforms to future-proof our stack and optimize performance.
- Promote a high-performance engineering culture through mentoring, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—product managers, UX designers, and QA engineers—to ensure technical alignment with user needs and business priorities.
- Build and maintain a technical debt backlog and drive continuous improvement across SDLC and DevOps practices.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise in technologies like C#/.NET Core and Angular, along with a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, along with experience in designing and optimizing database schemas and queries
- Hands-on with cloud infrastructure and DevOps, including AKS, Terraform, Pulumi, and modern CI/CD tools.
- Proficiency in developing robust APIs and data integration frameworks using REST, GraphQL, and OData.
- Experience orchestrating memory and/or CPU-intensive application logic, like large processing of financial data.
- Expertise in software security, including secure coding practices and vulnerability mitigation.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills with a proven ability to mentor engineers and align cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated success bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact platforms.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($180,000 - $200,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Global Parental Leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee Discount Program
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
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