We are looking for a seasoned Senior Tech Lead / Development Manager to guide multiple product squads building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud‑native settlement platform. This role combines architectural leadership, technical oversight, and hands‑on collaboration with senior engineers.

Location : Montreal

Type : Hybrid, 3 days on site per week

Key Responsibilities

- Define and govern event‑driven microservice architectures and integration patterns.
- Drive scalability, resilience, and performance using modern distributed‑system patterns.
- Standardize REST APIs and messaging strategies across teams.
- Lead data architecture spanning relational, NoSQL, caching, and data privacy considerations.
- Champion security best practices (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, encryption).
- Establish observability standards-metrics, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs.
- Enhance DevOps maturity (CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes/AKS, blue/green & canary deployments).
- Enforce robust testing practices (unit, integration, contract, performance, chaos).
- Support cost optimization, capacity planning, and operational governance.
- Mentor engineering leads while contributing hands‑on to key technical decisions.

Required Skills





- 10+ years in distributed systems, including 4+ years in engineering leadership.
- Strong expertise in Java , Spring Boot , REST, and high‑volume messaging (Kafka or similar).
- Solid experience with public cloud environments (preferably Azure) including compute, networking, identity, data services, and monitoring.
- Deep knowledge of relational/NoSQL databases and caching models.
- Solid grounding in security, observability, DevOps tooling, and container orchestration.
- Experience with contract testing, cloud‑native performance testing, and resilience engineering.

Nice to Have

- Exposure to Angular/React for end‑to‑end system oversight.
- Experience with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark, kSQL).
- Background in audit‑ready environments or globally distributed platforms.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Proven track record leading high‑performing engineering teams delivering cloud‑based production systems.
- Excellent communication and architectural decision‑making skills.

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📌 Senior Tech Lead (Montreal)
🏢 Highspring
📍 Montreal