Senior Tech Developer Lead

We are looking for a Senior Backend Lead to design, build, and evolve cloud native and high performance backend systems. This role focuses on distributed systems, event driven architectures, and scalable APIs, with exposure to Kafka, Redis, high performance computing (HPC), and modern cloud platforms. The ideal candidate is a strong backend engineer with a growth mindset, capable of quickly learning new technologies and adapting to complex domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, cloud native backend services

• Build and support event driven and asynchronous systems using streaming and messaging platforms(Kafka)

• Engineer low latency, high throughput systems with strong resiliency and fault tolerance

• Optimize performance for compute and data intensive workloads

• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and Front office teams to deliver end to end solutions

• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and production readiness assessments

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive performance, reliability, and scalability improvements

• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and mentoring
  

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10 years of experience in backend software engineering

• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar backend languages

• Solid experience building microservices and REST / async APIs

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalability patterns

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Experience with event streaming / messaging systems (Kafka or equivalent)

• Strong problem solving skills and ability to work in complex, evolving systems
  

Good to Have:

• High Performance Computing (HPC) experience, including performance tuning, parallelism, or compute intensive workloads

• Experience using Redis for caching, pub/sub, or distributed state management

• Strong working knowledge of Apache Kafka, including producers/consumers, schemas, and stream processing

• Experience with Symphony based integrations or platforms (messaging, workflows, or automation)

• Basic to intermediate exposure to C , or comfort understanding and modifying C code

• Experience with low latency / real time systems

• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines
  
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $36.98/hour - $57.79/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $37 - $58