Tech Lead

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Technical Lead to drive the modernization of legacy enterprise applications supporting the TTB program- a bureau within the Department of the Treasury responsible for regulating and collecting taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition, and for overseeing related permitting and compliance. In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership and guide a small, cross-functional team as we transform legacy systems into a modern, cloud-ready, microservices-based platform.

You will define technical direction, uphold engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with product, security, and operations partners to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable systems. This is a highly visible role for a leader who enjoys solving complex legacy challenges while mentoring engineers and shaping the future state of the platform.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the technical lead for modernizing legacy enterprise applications into a scalable, cloud-ready architecture.
• Define technical direction, architecture standards, and engineering best practices for the team.
• Lead design sessions and architecture reviews; document technical decisions and solutions.
• Guide decomposition of monolithic systems into well-scoped, maintainable microservices.
• Design and implement backend services and RESTful APIs using modern frameworks and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership for frontend development and ensure clean API contracts.
• Lead secure authentication and authorization approaches in partnership with security stakeholders.
• Promote CI/CD automation, infrastructure-aware design, and production readiness (logging, monitoring, resiliency).
• Balance technical debt reduction with delivery timelines and operational risk.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and day-to-day guidance.
• Partner closely with product, operations, and program stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Identify risks early and recommend mitigation strategies to keep delivery on track.

What You Will Bring

• Public Trust Clearance
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong mission alignment.
• Strong expertise in modern backend development (e.g., Java and enterprise application frameworks).
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and refactoring complex codebases.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and integration patterns.
• Solid experience with relational databases and data migration concepts.
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks and UI patterns.
• Experience implementing secure authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, RBAC).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and application observability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in legacy environments.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments.
• Comfort operating in regulated, security-conscious environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience modernizing systems in government or regulated environments.
• Exposure to cloud-native or containerized platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with event-driven or asynchronous architectures.
• Experience documenting architectures using industry-standard models.
• Background working on large, enterprise-scale or mission-critical systems.

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You:

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of face time and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization. We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics.

Compensation: Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer.  The range for this role ranges from $165,000 to $195,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with the opportunity to earn annual bonus and a robust benefits package. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.