AI Native Tech Lead/Architect

 

Who We Are

Build. Scale. Sustain.

PALO IT is a global technology consultancy that crafts tech as a force for good. We design, develop and scale digital and sustainable products and services to unlock value across the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We’re proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion and a B Corp-certified company.

• We are small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally (5 continents, 18 offices, 650+ experts from 50+ nationalities)
• We are robust and resilient (100% independent and 0 debt)
• We are entrepreneurs and passionate experts: we invest in what we genuinely believe in and work as a collective intelligence
• We are positive, courageous, caring, doers, and committed to excellence

About Gen-e2

While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with strong collaboration between generative AI and our best talents:

• We now generate 95% of the entire product — code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design — with GitHub Copilot.
• Quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.
• A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.
• A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability.

With Gen-e2, we deliver end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence.

Your Role

As a Tech Lead Full Stack with a strong software architecture mindset, you will lead the technical delivery of digital products end-to-end—hands-on when needed—while guiding teams toward scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of technology solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural decisions and trade-offs (e.g., microservices vs modular monolith), applying patterns such as DDD, Clean/Hexagonal Architecture, and event-driven approaches when relevant.
• Design, build, and evolve REST APIs, including versioning, contract-first practices (OpenAPI), backward compatibility, and robust error handling.
• Define and enforce engineering standards: clean code, testing strategy, code reviews, observability, security practices, and CI/CD.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a strong delivery culture and continuously raising the engineering bar.
• Partner with Product, QA, UX, and stakeholders to refine scope, assess technical risks, shape the roadmap, and deliver incrementally.
• Encourage AI-first engineering practices (Copilot/GenAI) with proper governance: quality gates, security, traceability, and testing.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with proven technical leadership (Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or strong senior with leadership responsibilities).
• Strong backend expertise in Java (ideally 17/21/25+) or .NET, with solid testing practices (e.g., JUnit/Mockito or .NET equivalents) and performance awareness.
• Strong frontend expertise in Angular (ideally 12+) with TypeScript, RxJS, frontend architecture, and performance best practices.
• Proven ability to design and communicate software architecture: microservices/modular monoliths, Clean/Hexagonal, SOLID principles, integration patterns, and API design.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: CI/CD, Git workflows, code review practices, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and a secure-by-design mindset.

Nice to have / Strong plus

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