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 Technical 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 and long-term technical strategy across complex systems and applications.
- Write and review clean, efficient, and scalable code following best practices for testing, documentation, and maintainability.
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of technical projects, including scope, risk, performance, and release management.
- Design and implement scalable system and data architectures aligned with business goals and cost efficiency.
- Evaluate and integrate modern technologies, frameworks, and platforms to optimize performance and future-proof solutions.
- Build and maintain a technical debt backlog, ensuring continuous improvement across SDLC and DevOps practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, UX, and QA teams to ensure alignment with user and business needs.
- Promote a high-performance engineering culture through mentorship, collaboration, and technical leadership.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support the overall goals and objectives of the department/company.
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 C#/.NET Core and Angular, with strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools such as AKS, Terraform, Pulumi, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven experience building robust APIs and data integration frameworks (REST, GraphQL, OData).
- Expertise in software security and secure coding best practices.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
- Demonstrated success bridging technical and business priorities to deliver scalable, high-impact platforms.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($170,000 - $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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What We Do
Elite is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Our solutions lie at the heart of a large proportion of the world’s largest, most successful and innovative law firms. In fact, three-quarters of the Am Law 200 and four-fifths of the Global 200 rely on at least one Elite solution to help drive their firms’ business operations into the future. As more firms make cloud solutions a core part of their technology strategies for the future, Elite is leading the way in supporting customers as they move their financial and operational systems into the cloud. To date, Elite has supported more than 400 firms around the world in their move to 3E in the cloud
