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Tech Lead (Freelance)

Tech Lead (Contractor)

Tenure

Start 18th October for 27 weeks, with a possibility of extension.

Location

Preferably in Sweden or remote in Europe (GMT, CET, EET) time zones.

Key skills

Must haves

• Competent in fullstack engineering including:
• Frontend: ReactJS
• Backend: NodeJS
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP or Azure

• Experience creating system architecture for customer-facing applications and leading a team hands-on to deliver on it. This includes backend and front-end system architecture and implementation.
• Experience composing system architectures using a mixture of cloud managed services, integration of existing 3rd-party services, and custom development.
• Ability to evaluate options for technical solutions and make build-vs-buy decisions for key components and/or major areas of functionality.
• Good understanding of standard non-functional requirements (reliability, observability, security, accessibility, etc.)
• Experience working across disciplines (i.e. not just within a tech team) to ensure building of high-quality products as well as delivering the project on time, on budget.
• Experience being hands-on on projects, getting deep into code and being looked upon as a senior authority in software development tasks, projects, etc.
• Lead-level commercial experience managing a tech team through large-scale production builds

Nice to have:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• DevOps skill set / experience
• Experience with serverless architectures / functions

The work

We’re working with a major client in the gaming industry. They’re looking to create a new digital product for traditionally underserved audiences in the gaming community, and have an incredible mission to have a truly positive impact with this new service. The work will be two-fold. The first instance will be to help further shape and define the new proposition and its execution, setting technical direction, leading on the selection of 3rd party cloud and SaaS services, etc. The second, and larger, part of the work will be actively leading the development of this new service in a hands-on manner with the aim to ship the first iteration to users in the Spring of next year.