Lead Developer/Technical Lead

Merican Inc
  • ATL, GA
  • $65–$70 Per Hour
  • Temporary
  • Contractor
  • Full-time
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Job Description

Job Title: Lead Developer/Technical Lead

Location: Atlanta GA

Work Mode: Onsite 5 days

Note: Flexible to work extra hours (Will compensate for that)

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About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead who writes production code every day while guiding a squad of high-performing engineers. You will build modern, cloud-native digital products in financial services, including AI-powered features such as conversational (voice and chat) experiences, working in fast, agile delivery teams alongside product, design and consulting partners.

Key responsibilities

Code: lead by example on complex frontend, backend and AI-integration work.

Design: own technical design for features within a domain-driven architecture, including API and event-driven integrations.

Conversational AI: lead the build of AI features using Claude, AWS Bedrock and LangGraph, including orchestration, guardrails and evaluation.

Design handoff: work directly from Figma with designers to deliver pixel-accurate, accessible UIs.

Standards: set engineering standards for code review, testing and AI-assisted development across the team.

Delivery pipeline: drive CI/CD with GitHub Actions and infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, supported by automated testing.

Team: mentor engineers, unblock delivery and uphold quality in fast agile sprints.

Stakeholders: work closely with delivery leads, architects and product owners on technical decisions, risks and trade-offs.

Must-have skills

Frontend: expert in React, Next.js and TypeScript; strong Figma-to-code workflow.

Backend: TypeScript on AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB); API design and event-driven integration.

AI engineering: production experience with LLM applications, ideally Claude via AWS Bedrock, and agent orchestration with LangGraph, including RAG, tool use, prompt design, guardrails and evaluation.

DevOps: GitHub Actions and AWS CDK; automated testing (unit, integration and end-to-end).

AI-assisted coding: daily, fluent use of tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor, used safely and productively in a team.

Agile: real, hands-on agile delivery experience.

Leadership: has led squads of 8 20 engineers while staying hands-on.

Strongly preferred

Domain: financial services, ideally wealth management, retirement (IRA/401(k)), brokerage or digital banking.

Regulation: familiarity with KYC/CIP, money movement and payments, and compliance requirements (FINRA/SEC context).

Voice AI: experience with voice interfaces, such as Amazon Connect, Lex or speech-to-text services.

Architecture: experience working within domain-driven design.

Consulting: experience in consulting-led or multi-vendor delivery teams.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Numbers & Facts

LocationATL, GA
Job TypeTemporary, Contractor, Full-time
Salary$65–$70 Per Hour
HeadquartersATL, GA, US

Skills

  • AWS Lambdaunmatched
  • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Banking Servicesunmatched
  • Brokerageunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Code Reviewsunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • DevOpsunmatched
  • Financial Servicesunmatched
  • GitHubunmatched
  • Know Your Customer (KYC)unmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Product Designunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)unmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Technical Leadershipunmatched
  • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
  • Test Automationunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • Unit Testunmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
  • Voice Chatunmatched
  • Wealth Managementunmatched

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