Senior Tech Lead

About the role

Intervest, a Global Delivery Hub in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is looking for a Senior Tech Lead to shape enterprise-wide technology direction and lead high-performing engineering teams across multiple products and platforms. The role combines deep technical expertise with business understanding, product thinking and strategic decision-making, and expects the candidate to evaluate and champion AI-powered engineering practices.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise-wide technical strategy, design and govern scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and lead architectural decisions
• Drive system modernisation, establish engineering best practices, coding standards and quality frameworks
• Partner with Product, Business and Executive stakeholders so engineering teams understand the why behind what they build
• Provide technical leadership across frontend, backend, APIs, cloud infrastructure and platform architecture, improving reliability, security, observability and performance
• Champion AI-assisted development, engineering productivity tools and automation, and explore emerging technologies
• Lead, mentor and develop engineering teams, run technical interviews and nurture future technical leaders
• Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and advise senior leadership on technology investments

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field
• Around 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leading engineering teams and influencing technical strategy
• Proven experience leading engineering teams of 15+ engineers across multiple products
• Strong product thinking and ability to evaluate technology investments through a commercial lens
• Interest in and practical experience with AI-powered tools and engineering accelerators

Required skills

• React.js and modern frontend ecosystems
• Backend with Node.js or similar technologies
• Scalable distributed systems, APIs, integrations and cloud-native applications
• Software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, system design and architectural trade-offs
• Scalability, reliability, performance optimisation, security and modern DevOps practices