[Hiring] Technical Lead @Zifo

Role Description

Zifo is searching for a technical lead for angular & python product engineering. This role will serve as a hands-on technical leader for a cross-functional product engineering pod. They will own technical delivery across Angular, Python APIs and cloud-native services; translate product and architecture direction into maintainable software; guide engineers while remaining directly involved in design, critical implementation, code review, testing and production troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on pod leadership: Lead day-to-day technical delivery and remain active in solution design, complex implementation, code reviews, debugging, release readiness and production support.
• Technical translation: Convert product requirements and architecture direction into bounded designs, service contracts, development tasks and testable vertical slices; identify dependencies and risks early.
• Engineering leadership: Set practical standards for component and service boundaries, security, performance, observability, testing and maintainability; mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback and drive technical decisions.
• Product delivery ownership: Work closely with Product, BA, QA and DevSecOps, demonstrate working results early, manage technical debt and delivery risk, and support reliable PST overlap with distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Strong recent hands-on Angular 17+ and TypeScript, with readiness to work in Angular 19.x.
• Production experience with Python and FastAPI or a comparable framework.
• Relational data modelling and SQL/PostgreSQL experience.
• Unit, integration, contract and end-to-end tests experience.

Requirements

• Real-time and collaborative UI: WebSockets, REST-backed durable changes, optimistic concurrency/version checks, reconnect and stale-state recovery, conflict presentation, notifications and safe undo behaviour for multi-user workflows.
• Must understand asynchronous execution, long-running jobs, progress events, retries, idempotency, cancellation and failure recovery.
• Able to troubleshoot across frontend, API, data and deployment layers.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including accrued vacation.
• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• 401k with company matching.
• Life insurance and flexible spending accounts.

Company Description

Zifo is a global R&D solutions provider focused on the industries of Pharma, Biotech, Manufacturing QC, Medical Devices, specialty chemicals and other research-based organizations. Our team’s knowledge of science and expertise in technology help Zifo better serve our customers around the globe, including 7 of the Top 10 Biopharma companies.

We look for Science – Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology etc. We possess scientific and technical knowledge and bear professional and personal goals. While we have a “no doors” policy to promote free access within, we do have a tough door to walk in. We search with a two-point agenda – technical competency and cultural adaptability.

Zifo is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.