What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a Tech Lead who operates at the intersection of technical excellence, product thinking, and team leadership. You will set technical direction, make high-leverage architectural decisions, and ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality systems.

As a Tech Lead, you will own the technical success of one or more project areas, guiding design and implementation while enabling other engineers to do their best work. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical strategies and shipped solutions.

The ideal candidate brings strong system design skills, sound judgment, and a bias toward ownership. You are comfortable balancing speed and quality, coaching engineers through complexity, and raising the bar for engineering standards across the team.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Direction

• Set and evolve the technical direction and architecture for projects and domains.
• Break down ambiguous product requirements into clear technical approaches and execution plans.
• Identify key risks and blind spots early, providing technical “early unlocks” for the team.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope, and clearly communicate those decisions.
• Lead by example through hands-on contribution to critical or complex parts of the system.

Ownership & Delivery

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of project areas, from design through production and ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure systems are robust, secure, performant, and accessible (including load testing, security considerations, and remediation).
• Proactively identify technical debt and guide the team toward sustainable solutions.
• Maintain accountability for outcomes, not just implementation.

Scalable Systems & Impact

• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and maintainable full-stack systems.
• Advocate for sound technical solutions, build consensus with stakeholders, and rally engineers behind a shared approach.
• Create and share architectural decisions, patterns, and domain knowledge that scale beyond a single project.
• Look beyond the immediate task to consider long-term system health and team efficiency.

Quality & Engineering Craftsmanship

• Champion high standards of craftsmanship, code quality, and system design.
• Establish and reinforce best practices around testing, reviews, documentation, and observability.
• Simplify code and infrastructure where possible, prioritizing long-term maintenance and migration costs.
• Drive consistency and reuse to improve developer velocity and avoid reinvention.

Mentorship, Collaboration & Communication

• Mentor and support engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance.
• Enable others to take ownership by providing clarity, context, and feedback.
• Communicate technical designs and decisions clearly through documentation, diagrams, and proofs of concept.
• Partner effectively with Product and non-technical stakeholders, translating between business needs and technical solutions.

Your Qualifications

Minimum requirements for success in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including significant ownership of production systems.
• Experience acting as a technical lead, staff-level engineer, or informal team lead on complex projects.
• Advanced proficiency in English, both verbal and written.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of: TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, C#, or Rust.
• Deep understanding of system design, data modeling, and API design (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Experience building and scaling full-stack web applications (e.g., React, Node).
• Familiarity with microservices, containerization (Docker), and enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.

Your candidacy is enhanced by:

• Experience leading technical work in complex or regulated domains (e.g., fintech, healthcare, government).
• Strong intuition for front-end performance, design systems, and user experience trade-offs.
• Experience with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• A track record of raising engineering standards and improving team effectiveness.

This role probably isn’t for you if:

• You prefer clearly defined tasks without ownership over technical direction or outcomes.
• You avoid making decisions under uncertainty.
• You struggle to communicate technical ideas clearly in writing or to non-technical audiences.
• You want to focus exclusively on front-end or back-end work without system-level responsibility.

Benefits

• Flexible hours: We are a fully remote company. Work on your schedule–pick up the kids, go to the dentist–you decide when you work. 
• Compensation: We offer a competitive salary and health benefits package, including a Wellness spending account. 
• Continuous learning: Access a dedicated learning budget to deepen your expertise. Complete certification programs in GCP, AWS, and other technologies.
• Time off: It’s no secret we all have lives outside of work. Jet off to your favourite spot or just relax with flexible paid vacation days and sick days.
• Annual team retreat: Once a year, we meet in person to collaborate, reconnect, and reset.

Interview Process

• Initial interviews will be conducted via a secure video platform that detects the use of AI filters or synthetic video/audio tools.
• Final interviews will be conducted in person in Canada.

We believe this process helps us create a fair, authentic, and high-signal experience for both candidates and interviewers. We look forward to reviewing your application and learning more about how you could contribute to Boosted’s success.

About us

We are a technology consulting firm providing high-impact data and automation solutions in healthcare, fintech, and insurance. Our clients range from startups to well-established enterprises. You will join a team of over 40 members distributed across Canada, working in a remote-first environment. Our clients choose us because we practice extreme ownership and deliver solutions that truly work. We move quickly, think deeply, and take pride in our partnerships.