What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Engineering Lead position at Ness Digital Engineering?
Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com
Sr Engineering Lead
4 World Trade Center NY, Hybrid (3-4 days onsite)
About the Role:
We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to guide the technical delivery of a strategic internal application for one of the world’s top private equity firms. The project involves rapid design-build sprints to deliver modular dashboards and workflows that scale across asset classes.
You’ll lead a globally distributed engineering team, working closely with product managers, designers, and client stakeholders. This is a hybrid role based in New York, with partial on-site presence.
You’ll be responsible for both execution and technical oversight — helping shape a scalable frontend component architecture, and integrating with serverless backend services (AWS Lambda, Fargate).
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of micro-apps using React, backed by Node.js/Python services
- Architect and own backend logic using serverless functions (Lambda) and containerized services (Fargate)
- Partner with Product and Design to translate business needs into scalable, high-quality software
- Establish and enforce code quality, testing, and deployment standards
- Guide a distributed engineering team, reviewing code and supporting onboarding of new devs
- Identify reusable frontend/backend components and help establish a design-build library
- Maintain high development velocity while ensuring robust infrastructure integration
- Act as the technical point of contact for client engineering teams
What We’re Looking For:
- 6 years of full stack development experience (React, Node.js and/or Python)
- Experience leading technical delivery across distributed product teams
- Strong knowledge of AWS serverless architecture: Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway
- Familiar with containerized development, CI/CD pipelines, and platform-level routing
- Skilled in translating technical complexity into clear direction and action
- Comfortable working in a hybrid on-site/remote setting with executive stakeholders
- Strong communication and mentoring skills
Nice to Have
- Background in enterprise, SaaS, or financial tools
- Experience setting up design systems or component libraries
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, SSO, JWT authentication, and platform authorization patterns
Why Join This Project
- Work on a long-term strategic platform with global business impact
- Join a high-velocity, design-led delivery team with ownership from day one
- Shape core frontend and backend architecture across multiple modular apps
- Collaborate closely with business, product, and design in a hybrid New York-based team
- Opportunity to influence reusable tech foundations for a large-scale, high-visibility system
Ness is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law
Salary : $130,000 - $170,000