Job Description

10Pearls is an award-winning end-to-end digital innovation company that helps businesses imagine and build the future. We are proud to announce that 10Pearls was named as winner of the Best Tech Work Culture Timmy Award in Washington DC by Tech in Motion, recognized on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List, and was ranked the #1 Most Diverse Midsize Company in Greater Washington. We partner with businesses to help them transform, scale, and accelerate by adopting digital and exponential technologies. Our work has ranged from creating highly usable, secure digital experiences, mobile and software products, to helping businesses modernize through cloud adoption and development and the digitalization of their business processes. Our clientele is highly diverse, including Global 1000 enterprises, mid-market businesses, and even high-growth start-ups. But those are just facts. What makes us unique is that we have a true heart and soul. We have a strong focus on a double bottom line and actively support and engage with the communities where we live and work to make the world a better place. In a nutshell, we believe in doing well, while doing good and know how to balance the two.

Role

10Pearls is seeking a highly experienced Tech Lead – Software Development to lead and scale engineering teams building a high-performance OTT and Live TV streaming platform. This role requires strong technical depth combined with people leadership, spanning front-end technologies, backend services, and data engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with a proven track record of delivering complex, consumer-facing products across multiple industries. You will be responsible for technical direction, code quality, architectural alignment, and mentoring teams while working closely with product, design, DevOps, and architecture stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership by designing and architecting highly scalable, maintainable, and secure systems across the organization.

• Ensure that company engineering practices, including CI/CD, code quality, and security standards, are maintained at the highest level.

• Drive the technical roadmap and align architectural decisions with both business strategy and client needs, serving as a key technical advisor.

• Lead complex technical discussions with both internal teams and external stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable technical solutions.

• Embrace and promote a consulting mindset, acting as a technical expert who advises clients on innovative, scalable solutions that deliver measurable business value.

• Stay updated on new technologies and trends to continuously improve technical skills.

• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical growth across teams, and maintaining a culture of learning and innovation.

• Play a key role in the recruitment process, interviewing and selecting top technical talent for the organization, ensuring both technical and cultural fit.

• Act as focal point of contact for technical issues for specific work streams across multiple projects

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related discipline. (Software Engineering preferred)

• 10+ years of experience as a software developer, with progression into Tech Lead or Senior Engineer roles

• Proven experience working across multiple product domains and industries, delivering scalable applications

• Strong hands-on expertise in backend development (Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, or similar)

• Solid experience with web technologies (React, Angular, Vue, Node.js) and mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Flutter, or React Native)

• Experience leading or collaborating with data engineering teams (analytics pipelines, event tracking, data platforms)

• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, cloud-native systems, and distributed architectures.

• Experience building or supporting OTT or media-rich consumer applications is a strong plus

Nice to Have

• Experience with Live TV or streaming platforms (HLS, DASH, playback optimization)

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and DevOps pipelines

• Exposure to recommendation systems, search, or AI-driven features

• Background in high-scale consumer products (e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, media, or gaming)