Technical Lead / Application Architect

We are seeking a Technical Lead / Application Architect for Web Development to join a full-time position in Torrance, California for 12 months. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise web applications. The role balances approximately 75% hands-on development with 25% application architecture and technical leadership responsibilities, with primary focus on Angular, TypeScript, and Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise web applications using Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, RxJS, HTML5, and CSS/SCSS with modern responsive web development practices.
• Build backend services and APIs using Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, middleware, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture.
• Contribute to application architecture and lead technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Design scalable frontend architectures using reusable components, modular design, UI frameworks, responsive design, accessibility, and internationalization.
• Apply strong web security and authentication practices, including SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, session/cookie management, CORS, and OWASP best practices.
• Integrate web applications with enterprise APIs, microservices, cloud services, and backend platforms.
• Leverage AWS cloud services such as S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Implement CI/CD, automated testing, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and modern DevOps/DevSecOps practices.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, technical decision-making, troubleshooting, and mentoring of developers.
• Drive engineering best practices around code quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, or similar technologies to improve engineering productivity, testing, and code quality.
• Collaborate with product, UX/UI, architecture, backend, DevSecOps, security, and business teams across complex Agile programs.

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field

• 7-10 years of enterprise web application development experience

• 3+ years in a Technical Lead or similar hands-on technical leadership role

• Strong expertise in Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, and RxJS

• Strong experience with Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture

• Demonstrated expertise in web application architecture, security, and enterprise integration

• Hands-on technical leadership and solution design capabilities

• Experience with CI/CD, testing, DevOps, and cloud-native development

• Preferred

• Experience with React and other modern JavaScript frameworks

• Experience with Kotlin and/or Java

• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration, including RAG, agentic workflows, and platforms such as AWS Bedrock or equivalent

• Experience with micro-frontends, Next.js, PWA, or similar modern web architectures

• Relevant web or AI certifications