Technical Lead Manager- India

Your Impact

As a Technical Lead  Manager , you will:

• Own mission critical Front-end and Back-end systems responsible for delivering magical, consumer-grade experiences
• Guide your team to deliver value pragmatically and productively while building architecturally sound, well-crafted, secure, testable, interoperable, and easily modifiable systems
• Build an effective team by hiring and developing top talent, instituting and evolving team practices, and fostering a culture of respect, cooperation, dependability, ownership, and gratitude
• Foster operational excellence, improving the performance, availability, and scalability of your systems, and your staff’s ability to consistently improve them
• Represent the team and charter to internal stakeholders, leadership, and the business
• Evaluate team architectural designs for completeness and coherence with requirements
• Work closely with partners in Product to align on business goals and deliverables
• Work closely with partners in Design to evaluate their artifacts for completeness and coherence with requirements and existing UI patterns

What You'll Do

Your team will own:

• Highly responsive, low-latency, feature-rich experiences that are at the core of our products
• For example:  search builders, visual filters, highly customizable results lists, dashboards, and data exports
• Scalable, event-driven back-end systems that leverage serverless or containerized compute to balance cost, latency, and duration

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience including prior hands-on experience developing both front-end and back-end systems that operate in a cloud native environment
• 1+ years of engineering management including experience hiring, managing, and growing engineers up to staff level
• Experienced with owning a team charter and managing a technical roadmap.
• Understand architectural patterns and techniques such as domain-driven design, service-oriented architecture, API-first design, diagramming conventions, etc.
• Experience with federated GraphQL and designing encapsulated, scalable data schemas for it
• History of owning and improving operational excellence for front-end and back-end systems where developers are responsible for site reliability
• Track record of delivering well tested, reliable systems and fostering a culture of quality
• Skilled with front-end technologies such as React and Micro-Frontends
• Working knowledge of some back-end architectures & datastores such as SQL and NoSQL stores, multitenant systems, and microservice architectures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a good sense of when there’s a need to dive into the details

Even Better If You Have...

• Experience with high-scale data streaming architectures (e.g., kafka, kinesis)
• Experience in organization design, charter definition, and engineering roadmap development and prioritization
• Experience working with end-to-end UI regression testing and tools like Cypress or Playwright
• Experience with different application bundlers such as Webpack, Rollup, Parcel, EMS, etc.

Some of Our Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• DSL-based Search: multiple large-scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL), Vector Search

Persistence: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, SQL data stores, others

• Event Bus: Kafka & Schema Registry
• Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets
• AI: LLMs, MinHash, FastText, Word2Vec, Convolutional Neural Nets, PyTorch, Recurrent Neural Networks, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic Modeling, etc.
• Languages: Typescript, Kotlin/Java, C#/.NET, Python, 
• Transport Mechanisms: Protobuf, Avro, HTTP Rest/JSON, GraphQL
• UI Libraries: React, Apollo, React Query, Redux, Redux Sagas, Jest, Cypress

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
• Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company