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VRTek Consulting Inc. · 1 day ago

Engineering Technical Lead(GoLang, Typescript and GraphQL)

United States

Contract

Remote

Lead/Staff

VRTek Consulting Inc. is seeking an experienced Engineering Technical Lead to oversee the design, development, and operation of distributed application architectures. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient systems in a Cloud Hosted Environment, preferably AWS.

Information Technology & Services

Hiring Manager

Piyush Srivastava

Responsibilities

Lead service decomposition strategies for GraphQL subgraphs and backend APIs, including synchronous (serverless) and asynchronous (containerized) workloads

Define resiliency patterns (health modeling, DLQs, autoscaling) and observability strategies (distributed tracing, structured logging, dashboards)

Ensure security-by-design principles: TLS everywhere, OIDC/JWT authentication, least-privilege IAM, and encryption policies

Oversee compute stacks (serverless functions, container orchestration) and networking (private subnets, secure ingress, VPC endpoints)

Manage IaC deployments using CDK, Terraform, or equivalent tools; enforce compliance and auditability across environments

Drive CI/CD best practices for zero-downtime deployments, blue/green rollouts, and automated health checks

Guide teams in building GraphQL subgraphs with Apollo Server (TypeScript/Node), resolver design, schema evolution, and validation directives

Lead development of Golang-based services for high-throughput APIs, webhooks, and background processing with robust concurrency and context management

Implement structured logging, error handling, and observability across all services

Design and optimize data models for relational (PostgreSQL or equivalent) stores; enforce encryption and backup strategies

Implement ORM-based persistence layers using GORM, PrismaORM, TypeORM or similar ORMs for maintainable and secure data access

Architect messaging workflows with queues, event buses, and orchestration frameworks for reliable, at-least-once delivery

Mentor engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and ensure alignment with business objectives

Collaborate with product, compliance, and security teams to meet regulatory and operational requirements

Qualification

TypeScriptGolangGraphQLAWSAPI integration patternsORMsCI/CDSecurity complianceNode.jsPostgreSQLContainer orchestrationMessaging workflowsObservability

Required

Expert in TypeScript and Golang; strong understanding of Node.js and Go runtime patterns

API Frameworks: Apollo Server (GraphQL), Express, RESTful API design

ORMs & Data Modeling: GORM (Go), PrismaORM or TypeORM (TypeScript); relational schema design

Proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure); experience with serverless (Lambda/Functions), container orchestration (ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes), and IaC (CDK/Terraform)

TLS, OIDC/JWT, IAM/RBAC, KMS or equivalent encryption services

Distributed tracing (X-Ray/OpenTelemetry), structured logging, metrics/alerting pipelines

SQS/EventBridge or equivalents (Pub/Sub, Service Bus); DLQs; workflow engines

Automated pipelines with tools including Github Actions, Jenkins or equivalent experience