Tech Lead, Software Development

The Roles

Tech Leads at Univeris are senior engineers and people managers who are equally accountable for the technical quality of their team's output and the professional growth of every developer on their team. The following responsibilities apply across all roles:

People Leadership

Lead, coach, and mentor developers through regular 1:1s, constructive feedback, and hands-on technical guidance

Own performance evaluations and career development planning for direct reports

Drive hiring and onboarding, ensuring new team members ramp effectively and integrate into the team's culture and standards

Foster a high-trust, high-accountability team environment where engineers are empowered to do their best work

Technical Leadership

Lead by example as a practicing engineer -- actively contributing to design, code, and review alongside the team

Conduct thorough design and code reviews, ensuring adherence to Univeris development standards and architectural principles

Continuously collaborate with other Tech Leads, Development Managers, and Architecture on cross-cutting decisions

Identify and drive opportunities to improve performance, stability, extensibility, and reusability

Contribute to and enforce development standards and best practices across the team

AI-First Engineering

We expect our Tech Leads to embed AI natively across every phase of the SDLC, and not use it as a shortcut, but as a multiplier. This means incorporating AI agents to automate and augment repeatable lifecycle phases, leveraging AI tooling for analysis, code review, development, test case generation, and documentation. It's important also to preserve the discipline and integrity of our established SDLC gates and quality controls. Ultimately, you don't just use AI tools; you know where and when to apply them, you coach your team to do the same, and you continuously raise the bar on how AI makes your team faster, more reliable, and higher quality.

Delivery

Provide clear, consistent visibility into team health, progress, and risks at all times

Hold the team accountable to delivery commitments while proactively surfacing and resolving blockers

Partner with the stakeholders and partners to maintain a healthy, well-groomed backlog

Drive continuous improvement in team productivity, quality, and velocity

Role Specifics

R&D Tech Lead

Own the full specification and technical design process for new features and product enhancements, from concept through to implementation

Navigate the product lifecycle end-to-end, coordinating effectively across engineering, product, and architecture

Negotiate roadmap scope and priorities with Product Owners and Product Management, advocating for technical feasibility and quality

Ensure the team's delivery cadence supports the broader R&D pipeline and release commitments

Professional Services Tech Lead

Lead technical initiatives related to client service and development requests

Navigate proposals and requirements with clients and internal stakeholders, ensuring we are delivering to what our clients need, translating business needs into technically sound delivery plans

Set and manage delivery expectations clearly throughout the engagement lifecycle

Ensure all delivered solutions align with Univeris platform architecture, standards, and long-term product direction

The Successful Candidate

Basic Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / related field or equivalent experience

Software Development experience: 8+ years

Development experience with: 5+ years

Team Lead experience: 2+ years

Cloud-native / API-centric apps: 5+ years

OOP: Strong working experience

Communication: Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills across all stakeholder levels

Proven Qualifications (Technical)

Primary Stack: Java, SQL Server, Vue.js, Angular, JSF

Cloud-centric solutions: RESTful APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spring Boot, Event-Driven architecture, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Data Pipelines (Airbyte, Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery)

Quality/testing: JUnit, Mockito, Spring TestContext

ORMs: JPA, Hibernate, MyBatis

Data: SQL Server, stored procedures, stored functions, database profiling and tuning

Security: Techniques and standards for remediation and mitigation of application vulnerabilities

Bonus Qualifications

Fluent in Spanish and English

Background in financial services / wealth management

Experience migrating monolith to microservice/cloud-centric architecture

.NET (C#) & Angular experience