About the Job

As a Technical Lead at Aspire, You will work on a high-traffic, production hiring platform, combining strong backend and frontend engineering experience with production troubleshooting and technical leadership. You will diagnose and resolve issues across interconnected systems, support event-driven applications, and collaborate closely with engineering, Client Support, and GTM teams to maintain reliable and high-quality hiring experience.

What you’ll do

- Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, with particular focus on ongoing and in-progress hiring events.
- Diagnose issues across interconnected backend, frontend, and supporting systems.
- Partner closely with Client Support and GTM teams to triage and resolve incoming production support requests.
- Drive timely issue resolution in line with established SLAs.
- Monitor production systems and respond quickly to alerts, incidents, and performance degradation.
- Support architecture changes, system integrations, and dependencies that may impact hiring events.
- Maintain and update event logic in response to changes in upstream systems and dependencies.
- Develop and maintain backend services using Java/Spring Boot and Django/Python.
- Contribute to frontend development using React.
- Work with Kafka, GraphQL, SQL, and/or MongoDB across application services.
- Support build, code review, merging, deployment, and production operations.
- Use production data and system information to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
- Take ownership of technical tasks and deliver solutions independently across multiple concurrent projects.
- Lead, mentor, shepherd, and onboard engineers while coordinating technical work across the team.
- Contribute to technical decisions, prioritization, system improvements,



and engineering best practices.

What you’ll need
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Solid Java/Spring Boot experience as a primary backend technology.
- Experience with Django/Python as a secondary backend technology.
- Strong React experience for frontend development.
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with SQL and/or MongoDB.
- Hands-on build and deployment experience.
- Experience with at least one of Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena.
- Senior-level engineering experience with the ability to quickly understand existing systems and take ownership across multiple projects.
- Strong ownership and autonomy, including the ability to merge and deploy code independently.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Technical leadership experience, including leading, onboarding, and supporting other engineers.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating or overseeing the work of other engineers.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and make effective technical decisions.
- Strong prioritization and strategic thinking.
- Ability to use data and production information to troubleshoot technical issues.
- Experience supporting high-traffic production applications and resolving production incidents.
- Experience collaborating with client-facing, engineering, and GTM teams.
- Product management experience working with GTM teams and engineers to support prioritization.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
- Experience with cloud-based application environments and modern deployment practices.
- Awareness or knowledge of IT security best practices as defined by ISO/SOC or similar.

📌 Technical Lead (India)
🏢 Aspire, Jordan
📍 India