PowTech Solution Hiring! Full Time Technical Lead, Full-Stack Engineer in Federal Territory - Ricebowl

DESCRIPTION:

We're hiring a Technical Lead to guide the end-to-end engineering delivery of a cloud-based digital platform. If you love full-stack development, leading small engineering teams, and building secure, scalable systems, this role is for you.

You'll translate architecture into working designs, lead developers, enforce engineering standards, coordinate security readiness, and ensure the platform is deployment-ready. This is a high-impact role ideal for someone with strong React and Node.js expertise, cloud architecture knowledge, and a commitment to security-first development.

This is a fixed-term contract role, 1 year engagement.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership

• Lead the engineering team in the design, development, and delivery of a cloud-based digital platform
• Guide developers, enforce engineering standards, oversee code quality, and support CI/CD

Architecture Implementation

• Translate solution architecture into implementable frontend, backend, API, database, and deployment designs

Full-Stack Development

• Design and develop application components using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
• Oversee relational data modeling, schema design, transaction handling, and audit logging

API & Integration

• Design secure REST APIs and integration patterns to support internal modules and future external integrations

Cloud Application Readiness

• Work with infrastructure teams to deploy applications into cloud environments
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, build processes, deployment scripts, and environment-specific configurations

Security & Code Quality

• Act as the team's Security Champion by embedding secure coding, code review, SAST, dependency scanning, and secret scanning into the sprint process
• Coordinate remediation of security findings from code scanning, DAST, and formal security assessment reports

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading a small engineering team
• Frontend: Strong working knowledge of React.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and responsive web application development
• Backend: Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, or NestJS
• Database: Strong experience with PostgreSQL, relational database design, SQL optimization, data integrity, and migration scripts
• API Development: Experience designing and securing REST APIs
• Authentication & Access Control: Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SSO integration, MFA, RBAC, secure token/session handling, and audit logging
• Cloud Platforms: Working knowledge of cloud application services (compute, storage, databases, monitoring, secrets management)
• DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker or container packaging, environment configuration, and deployment
• Security: Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning, and vulnerability remediation

Bonus

• Experience with non-relational databases (DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or similar)
• Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda or equivalent)
• Experience coordinating VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) remediation
• Kubernetes or advanced containerization knowledge
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools

Employment Details

• Type: Contract | Duration: 1 Year | Nature: Full-time engagement