Technical Lead - Engineering Talent Acceleration | Onsite - Delaware

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the roadmap and delivery of the developer portal (self-service tooling, documentation, service catalog). 

• Deliver DORA metrics and OKR dashboards to measure delivery health across engineering teams. 

• Identify and prioritize friction points in the developer experience; ship platform/process fixes. 

• Define and evangelize modern architecture patterns and testing practices as organization-wide guidance. 

• Set standards for production operations (on-call, runbooks, operational readiness) across teams. 

• Design and deliver the technical curriculum for upskilling engineers, including on AI-assisted development (Copilot, Claude Code, and emerging tools like BMAD/Kiro/GSD etc). 

• Drive community building initiatives (guilds, brown bags, internal tech talks) and organize hackathons. 

• Evaluate and pilot new AI development tools/skills, and decide what gets adopted org-wide. 

• Run day-to-day delivery of the offshore development team supporting the portal and dashboards: sprint commitments, code review, real-time unblocking, and hands-on work on critical-path items. 

• Report delivery status, risks, and blockers to engineering leadership. 

Must-Have Qualifications 

• 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as a tech lead owning end-to-end delivery of developer-experience or platform initiatives (not a pure design/review architect role). 

• Proven track record of shipping developer-platform initiatives on committed timelines, including hands-on troubleshooting under delivery pressure. 

• Proven experience building and operating a developer portal (e.g., Backstage or equivalent). 

• Strong experience designing DORA metrics/OKR dashboards and using them to drive engineering improvement. 

• Demonstrated ability to diagnose organizational friction points and translate them into platform or process solutions. 

• Deep, broad knowledge of modern architecture patterns and testing practices across multiple tech stacks. 

• Experience with production operations standards (incident response, runbooks, SRE practices). 

• Proven experience designing technical curricula and running enablement/training programs at scale. 

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) and evaluating emerging tools. 

• Experience running hackathons and community-building programs. 

• Financial-services or regulated-industry engineering-culture experience preferred. 

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to influence across the engineering org and directly manage day-to-day delivery of an offshore team (standups, unblocking, sprint accountability). 

Nice-to-Have Qualifications 

• Direct experience with Backstage plugin development. 

• Familiarity with emerging AI dev tools (Specprime, BMAD, Kiro, or similar) beyond mainstream Copilot/Claude Code. 

• Experience speaking at or organizing external developer conferences/meetups. 

• Background in technical training/curriculum design as a primary discipline (e.g., prior DevRel or L&D role).

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 56,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 196,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post