Software Engineer Team Lead***

This will be a 2-years direct contract position.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of broad project scopes.
• Design and deliver features that span multiple components or services, giving attention to modularity, scalability, and resiliency.
• Support reusable test automation frameworks and adopt better observability, CI/CD, and automation practices.
• Build deep knowledge of product architecture, dependencies, and data flows.
• Author design documents with minimal guidance.
• Conduct architecture reviews for junior engineers' work, offering constructive and actionable feedback.
• Lead triage and debugging, contribute root cause analyses, and drive concrete preventive actions through post-incident reviews.
• Ensure security, compliance, and performance.
• Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that serve as effective context for both AI tools and junior engineers.
• Identify AI-generated code that introduces technical debt or security risks.
• Establish team-level norms for reviewing AI-generated output.
• Translate goals into actionable plans, breaking down and prioritising work and contributing to project strategy.
• Identify opportunities, drive workstreams, and synthesise data into clear recommendations.
• Anticipate project risks and put mitigations in place.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and help ensure projects are delivered effectively across team boundaries.
• Navigate disagreements, facilitating alignment among team members and stakeholders.
• Support team coordination by communicating project goals and priorities clearly
• Mentor junior team members — sharing knowledge, breaking down problems, and providing constructive feedback that raises overall team productivity.
• Help team members understand how their individual work connects to broader objectives.
• Conduct regular check-ins with one or two direct or indirect reports, focusing on work progress and basic feedback delivery, and help team members work through day-to-day blockers with technical mentoring.
• Participate in recruitment activities where applicable.

Requirements

• Experience in building software.
• Able to write code to solve abstract programming problems
• Able to troubleshoot and debug.
• Able to review and discuss about codes.

Ethos Search Associates Pte. Ltd.

EA License No: 13C6655

EA Reg No: R1988580 Jacky Chong