Technical Lead
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Petaling Jaya, Selangor

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Hybrid

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Direct hire

|Job ID 7947|Posted Nov 12, 2025
JOB DESCRIPTION
About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest-growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative, and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, and Malaysia.
 

Position Purpose:

The Technical Lead drives technical design, hands-on development, and team leadership for the transformation of applications from J2EE to a Node.js-based platform. This role ensures high-quality, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions on Azure Cloud, while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices across the team.

       Key Responsibilities:

  • Design overall application architecture, ensuring technologies meet business goals.

  • Lead hands-on backend development with Node.js, NestJs, and TypeScript.

  • Define technical vision and roadmap within the tribe/product team.

  • Ensure application performance, security, and scalability.

  • Champion coding best practices, TDD, CI/CD, clean code, and maintainable architecture.

  • Manage technical debt while balancing rapid iteration.

  • Mentor engineers and oversee team performance and growth.

  • Promote AI-first development, continuous innovation, and improvement in processes.

  • Collaborate effectively across teams, including onshore/offshore environments.

    Experience & Knowledge Required:

  • 5+ years as a Technical Lead.

  • Strong experience with Node.js, NestJs, TypeScript, Cloud (Azure), and Distributed Systems.

  • Domain-Driven Design knowledge (tactical patterns).

  • Event-driven architecture expertise (SAGA, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Kafka).

  • DevOps and CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Database design for microservices (SQL Server, MongoDB) and caching (Redis).

  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.

  • Knowledge of security technologies (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, key vaults).

  • Familiarity with Next.js/Angular, GitHub Copilot, distributed tracing, and logging.

    Skills & Attributes:

  • Strong technical leadership and people management skills.

  • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Ability to influence technical feasibility and design decisions.

  • Deep understanding of front-end, back-end, and DevOps design patterns.

  • Agile/Scrum experience, cross-functional team collaboration, and DevOps culture.

  • Problem-solving, analytical skills, and strong self-learning ability.

  • Comfortable working in onshore/offshore environments.

Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. 

We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.

In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us.

All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.