Top Remote Tech Lead Jobs

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Leads architecture and hands-on engineering across a futures commission merchant platform, including market data, order routing, settlement, reporting, risk, and liquidation. Drives replatforming away from legacy vendors, improves reliability and technical quality, partners with product, risk, operations, finance, and compliance, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive backend distributed-systems experience, direct FCM or derivatives expertise, regulated-finance experience, and proficiency in Go, Java, or similar technologies.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable production systems for Toast’s retail customers. The role sets long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicates technical direction, mentors senior engineers, improves engineering productivity, diagnoses performance issues, and drives initiatives amid ambiguity. Engineers collaborate directly with retail customers, visit stores, understand operational workflows, and use AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

Own the technical strategy, architecture, development, configuration, integrations, data model, and roadmap for the company’s Salesforce platform. Lead Salesforce consultants and developers, oversee delivery standards and release governance, manage vendors, translate business requirements into scalable solutions, and align Salesforce with ERP, IT, data, and organizational priorities. The role also includes stakeholder and executive partnership, technical decision-making, and AI enablement or product integration.

Lead the long-term technical vision, architecture, performance, reliability, and release engineering for Gametime’s React Native mobile platform across iOS and Android. Drive cross-functional initiatives, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, evaluate AI capabilities, improve observability and testing, and guide mobile roadmap decisions. The role requires deep React Native, TypeScript, native iOS and Android, mobile performance, CI/CD, testing, app distribution, and API integration expertise.

Lead the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of TetraScience’s multi-tenant Tetra Apps platform. Design containerized application runtimes, routing, identity, security, observability, deployment, and developer tooling. Guide sprint and quarterly planning, write architecture decisions, support production customers, and mentor engineers through technical leadership. Remain hands-on across TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD while safely improving a live platform.

Leads strategy, architecture, delivery, documentation, maintenance, and production support for ad tech and martech integrations powering a data monetization platform. Defines API, MCP, and data-share requirements; translates them into engineering specifications; resolves live integration issues; and represents platform capabilities with technical and business partners. Requires extensive experience with resilient production systems, monitoring, incident response, partner communication, and integration roadmaps.

Lead ServiceNow implementations for enterprise customers: design, develop, integrate, and maintain scalable ServiceNow solutions (ITOM, Discovery, Service Mapping, AIOps). Build custom scripts and integrations, troubleshoot, participate in SCRUM, and work directly with customers to deliver projects on time.

Lead product vision and execution for internal, data-intensive technical initiatives. Improve and future-proof datasets, shared services, and platforms. Partner across engineering, data science, analytics, and product to translate needs into requirements, prioritize work, drive cross-functional delivery, define success metrics, and communicate roadmap and risks to stakeholders.

Leads global onboarding operations by building governance frameworks, SOPs, SLAs, workflows, and automation. Analyzes operational telemetry and activation metrics, partners with Product and Engineering on platform controls, translates technical changes for operations teams, manages escalations, documents processes, and mentors staff. The role requires strong data fluency, cross-functional program execution, and experience operating in ambiguous, regulated technology environments.

Leads major technical initiatives while designing enterprise identity systems, authorization models, and scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture. Builds platform components with .NET/C# on AWS, improves data pipelines, resolves complex production issues, and shapes the technical roadmap. Mentors engineers, drives architecture and reviews, coordinates across teams, and supports security, compliance, automation, and continuous platform improvement.

Leads product strategy for developer productivity platforms and end-to-end engineering workflows. Defines the product vision, roadmap, metrics, instrumentation, and success criteria; improves developer experiences across infrastructure, reliability, security, and developer tooling. Creates PRDs and BRDs, aligns cross-functional teams, influences roadmaps without direct authority, and delivers scalable platform solutions for technical users.

Leads analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of banking software on mainframe systems. Owns production-ready code, architectural design, reliability, performance, security, compliance, code reviews, debugging, testing, release management, and continuous improvement. Collaborates across teams using agile and DevOps practices while supporting large transaction-based systems and minimizing customer impact.

Technical lead and hands-on software engineer for Sourcegraph’s Code Plane team. Owns technical and product direction across Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and the src CLI. Leads architecture, roadmap sequencing, quality practices, customer-focused product development, and cross-functional collaboration while mentoring engineers and contributing to backend, frontend, and AI-agent systems. Requires experience building agent-callable products, evaluating coding agents, and shipping developer tools in distributed teams.

Leads the architecture, design, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale Vue.js and Nuxt.js applications. Responsibilities include front-end standards, solution design, SSR and SSG implementation, API integration, code reviews, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, sprint and release planning, automated testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, and security compliance.

Lead technical vision and system design for the Marketplace team while managing and coaching 3–5 engineers. Build scalable systems serving personalized offers, establish team processes, support onboarding, and improve collaboration across engineering, product, design, and data. The role combines engineering management with hands-on technical leadership in a remote-first startup environment.

Leads a DevOps engineering team while contributing hands-on to infrastructure as code, release automation, scalable architecture, CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, code reviews, and production support. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, coordinating sprints, partnering with product and platform teams, and delivering secure, reliable infrastructure using Ansible, Molecule, Terraform, AWS, scripting, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub.

Leads and mentors an engineering team building scalable web applications for fintech and media products. Responsibilities include setting technical architecture, guiding engineering decisions, partnering with product and design stakeholders, maintaining modern web applications, improving reliability and performance, supporting delivery planning, and adopting AI-assisted development and automation. The role combines hands-on software engineering, people management, technical strategy, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the architecture and implementation of production-grade MLOps infrastructure, including ML pipelines, Terraform automation, SageMaker training, model monitoring, CI/CD, model registries, and lifecycle governance. Ensure platform reliability, scalability, reproducibility, and regulatory compliance. Drive architecture reviews, technical standards, mentoring, and collaboration with platform, security, and quality teams.

Serve as the senior technical engineer on a delivery team, writing production code, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, diagnosing complex issues, and owning software quality and reliability. Build TypeScript and JavaScript applications using Node.js, Express, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, testing, and observability. Modernize legacy systems, manage integrations and data synchronization, and use AI tools and automation to improve engineering workflows and delivery.

Leads a student-facing software engineering team while managing people, technical direction, architecture, delivery, and team health. The role combines hands-on coding, code review, technical debt ownership, pragmatic architectural decisions, AI-assisted development, and agile process improvement. The manager owns direct-report development, performance management, career growth, and team culture while partnering closely with Product to improve execution and learning.

Leads a 3–4 person Site Reliability team while remaining hands-on with software engineering, incident response, infrastructure automation, platform tooling, observability, disaster recovery, and modernization. Owns technical direction, reliability outcomes, technical debt, architecture, code reviews, hiring, performance management, career development, and team processes. The role participates in on-call and drives platform adoption, self-service, delivery quality, and effective AI-assisted development.

Lead the GPU cluster infrastructure team while remaining at least 50% hands-on. Own technical direction, architecture, scheduling, storage, security, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, and platform roadmap. Manage hiring, coaching, project prioritization, and provider and researcher escalations. Operate production Kubernetes GPU clusters across multiple providers and improve performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and workload isolation for large-scale AI research.

Design, develop, test, and deploy supply chain software for inventory, warehouse, and fulfillment systems. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional Agile projects, decompose work, delegate tasks, and promote strong development and testing practices. Build monitoring systems that ensure business-process correctness and support high-volume, data-intensive applications.

Lead the development of machine learning systems for Cedar Pay's Personalization Engine, manage ML engineers, and ensure ML model effectiveness.