FormativGroup - Full Stack Tech Lead Engineer - Remote

• 5-7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with clear experience as a senior engineer or technical lead and prior leadership of at least one engineering team. • Hands-on full-stack development depth and the desire to continue building while managing engineers. • Strong proficiency with Python, Node.js, and React for modern application development. • Experience maintaining and modernizing .NET/C# services and Angular front ends. • Demonstrated use of agentic or AI-assisted software development workflows in real delivery environments, not just experimentation. • Ownership of the full development lifecycle: build, test, release, operate, troubleshoot, and iterate. • Cloud-native application experience on Azure; AWS or GCP experience is also relevant. • Hands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration. • Infrastructure as Code experience with tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK. • Strong automated testing and CI/CD experience across full-stack delivery. • Ability to make significant technical contributions, solve complex engineering problems, and make sound architecture decisions. • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • How You Work • You are a player-coach: comfortable owning people leadership while remaining an active practitioner. • You use AI agents to increase engineering throughput, but you keep quality, testing, security, and production decisions under clear human control. • You bring structure without creating unnecessary process and identify technical dependencies, delivery risks, and quality issues early. • You are comfortable working in a small-team environment where priorities can shift and where leadership means doing the work as well as directing it. • You balance modernization with stability and understand that business-critical systems must continue to perform while the architecture evolves. • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required. • Exposure to financial services, accounting, finance, tax technology, finance transformation, tax software development, or implementation environments. • Ability to take ownership of assigned work through completion, including requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, and system/process changes. • Relevant professional certifications or advanced degrees - such as CPA, EA, JD, or a master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, information systems, engineering, quantitative economics, or a related field - are a plus, but not required. • Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian tools, SonarQube, Mend, Aqua Trivy, and WIZ. • Experience with micro front-end architectures. • Experience modernizing mixed legacy/new technology environments while continuing to ship. • Experience building practical engineering guardrails for AI-assisted or agentic development. • What Success Looks Like • The team ships predictably while maintaining strong quality, testing, security, and release discipline. • The Engineering Manager remains technically credible and materially contributes to delivery rather than operating only as a coordinator. • Legacy components remain stable while modernization progresses in deliberate, low-risk increments. • AI agents are used productively with clear verification, human review, and production controls. • Engineers receive timely technical feedback, coaching, and clear expectations, and the team’s technical hiring bar remains high. • Operational support improves through better automation, runbooks, documentation, and reduced manual toil.