Tech Lead
Tech Lead – Reporting & Filing
Location: US – Remote
Engagement: Full-time. Direct Hire with the client
About the Opportunity
Peoplepath is partnering with a product-led software company in the sales tax and compliance space to support the growth of their engineering organization. Our client builds technology that simplifies the complexities of sales tax calculation, reporting, and filing for online businesses across multiple jurisdictions.
As part of this growth, we are seeking an experienced Tech Lead to join the Reporting and Filing Product team. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality products at scale.
Role Overview
The Tech Lead will be responsible for leading a team of engineers while serving as a technical partner to Product, internal stakeholders, and occasionally customers. This individual will play a key role in roadmap planning, execution, and ensuring reliable, on-time delivery of reporting and filing solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
Own and continuously improve engineering team processes and workflows
Ensure engineers have clear, actionable priorities and deliverables
Conduct regular 1:1s, providing mentorship and supporting career development
Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team growth initiatives
Foster a culture of trust, ownership, consistency, and transparency
Help unblock engineers on technical or product-related challenges
Partner closely with Product to define roadmap priorities and ensure technical alignment
Collaborate with leaders across engineering, product, and operations
Software Development
Document technical requirements and proposed solutions clearly for the team
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate customer needs into scalable software solutions
Build and maintain systems using technologies such as Go, CosmosDB, Postgres, Azure Functions, Event Grid, and Event Hub
Support and modernize legacy systems built in .NET/C# and SQL Server
Actively identify and reduce technical debt as part of feature development
Data Engineering
Design and maintain complex data pipelines supporting business-critical systems (e.g., tax filing, rate ingestion, order ingestion)
Partner with Product to understand customer reporting and data needs
Establish and promote clean, consistent data standards across the organization
Work extensively with Databricks on Azure, leveraging tools such as Delta Tables, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Workflows, and Unity Catalog
Quality & Best Practices
Promote best practices for code quality, testing, and documentation
Participate in and lead code reviews to maintain high engineering standards
Technical Qualifications
Strong proficiency in Go and SQL
Experience with Python, PySpark, Pandas, or similar data tools
Familiarity with Databricks
Experience with NoSQL document-based databases
Proficiency with Git and GitHub
Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms is a plus
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, etc.) is a plus
Additional Qualifications
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Proactive and ownership-driven approach to technical challenges
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Humble, open-minded, and collaborative leadership style
Ability to balance independent work with team leadership
Adaptable and comfortable navigating change
Eager to learn and stay current with emerging technologies
Why This Opportunity
Leadership role within a growing engineering organization
Exposure to a modern, data-driven product environment
Competitive compensation and benefits
Fully remote, flexible work arrangement
401(k) program
Peoplepath and our client are committed to building inclusive, diverse teams. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.