Full Stack Software Engineering - Team Lead

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions. Our verified identity platform and advanced image capture solutions are built on the latest advancements in biometric recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, and trusted by over 7,500 organizations worldwide. We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Visit us at https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miteksystems.com%2F&esheet=52795111&newsitemid=20220728006004&lan=en-US&anchor=www.miteksystems.com&index=3&md5=cc5b49681712596c06a27df1e1029ba4 www.miteksystems.com.

We are Virtual 1st!

 Whether you choose to work remotely from your home office or in-person from of Mitek’s offices, our practices, processes and tools are designed to enable your success. At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working. Because we care about our candidates, employees and customers, we include an in-person meeting as part of our hiring process. It’s of the ways we live our mission to “Protect What’s Real.”

At Mitek, we believe that teams are more resilient, effective, and innovative when they benefit from a wide range of ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. The strength of our organization is deeply rooted in the people who power it.​ We know that a workforce reflecting the richness of our communities and customers helps us better serve their needs.

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineering Team Lead to provide day-to-day technical direction to a full stack engineering team while remaining close to the code.

This is a hands-on, player-coach role for someone who can turn product priorities into practical technical plans, guide sound architecture decisions, and help engineers deliver reliable software with confidence.

You will work across front-end, back-end, cloud, and infrastructure components, balancing immediate delivery needs with the long-term quality, security, maintainability, and scalability of the platform.

What You’ll Do (Essential Responsibilities):

• Lead the team’s day-to-day technical direction and support delivery against agreed priorities.

• Contribute hands-on to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of production software.

• Guide architecture and design decisions across front-end, back-end, cloud, and infrastructure components.

• Break down complex initiatives into clear, actionable technical work and help the team estimate effort and dependencies.

• Mentor engineers, facilitate technical discussions, and help colleagues strengthen their engineering capabilities.

• Review code and reinforce engineering standards for quality, maintainability, scalability, security, observability, and testing.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions.

• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies early, communicate them clearly, and drive appropriate action.

• Improve development practices, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and the team’s ways of working.

• Promote ownership throughout the application lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.

• Build a collaborative culture grounded in accountability, knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and Mitek’s values of Delivering, Learning, and Caring.

 

What You'll Need (Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

• Significant professional software engineering experience, including experience leading technical work or mentoring other engineers.

• Strong back-end development experience. Production experience with Go would be highly desirable.

• Strong experience with JavaScript and single-page application frameworks, particularly React.

• A track record of designing and delivering production-grade full stack applications.

• A strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and modern application development practices.

• Experience building clean, maintainable, production-hardened code and writing unit, integration, and performance tests.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services. Exposure to services such as S3, SQS, ECS, EC2, and Lambda would be particularly relevant.

• Proficiency with Git, collaborative software development workflows, code reviews, and modern engineering practices.

• The ability to translate business and product requirements into practical technical solutions.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, including the ability to guide the resolution of complex production issues.

• Professional fluency in written and spoken English, with the ability to build alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

What Would be Nice (Preferred Skills & Experience):

• TypeScript, Redux, HTML, CSS, and template engines such as Freemarker or Thymeleaf.

• Experience with non-relational databases such as MongoDB, DocumentDB, or RavenDB.

• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure through code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or a comparable technology.

• NPM or a comparable package manager and Cypress or similar front-end testing tools.

• Experience designing distributed systems using serverless technologies or microservices architectures.

• Bash scripting and familiarity with Java, Groovy, or Python.

• Experience working in Agile teams and coordinating delivery across several technical or business stakeholders.

• Previous experience as a Technical Lead, Team Lead, Lead Engineer, or in a similar player-coach role.

What Success Looks Like:

You will be successful in this role when:

• The team consistently delivers reliable, high-quality software against clear priorities.

• Architecture and technical decisions are pragmatic, documented, and understood by the people who need to act on them.

• Risks, blockers, and dependencies are identified early and handled constructively.

• Engineers receive the guidance, context, and support they need to work effectively and continue developing.

• The platform becomes easier to maintain, operate, secure, and scale while the team continues delivering customer value.

LIFE AT MITEK

At Mitek, meaningful work and practical impact matter. Our culture is shaped by people who deliver for customers, keep learning, challenge convention, and care for another.

We believe teams are stronger, more effective, and more innovative when they include different ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. We therefore encourage you to apply even if your experience does not match every preferred qualification listed above.

We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to learning more about what you could bring to our team.

AI IN OUR HIRING PROCESS

Mitek may use AI-enabled tools to support administrative or analytical parts of the recruitment process, always with human review. AI does not make our hiring decisions.

Candidates are welcome to use AI responsibly when preparing an application, but live interviews must reflect their own experience and thinking

• You can find more information at: https://www.miteksystems.com/careers/ai-and-interviewing-at-mitek https://www.miteksystems.com/careers/ai-and-interviewing-at-mitek

We take pride in enabling career growth in an environment of innovation and teamwork.

  Our commitment to all Mitekians is to do meaningful work that matters.  Our culture is defined by delivering our best to our customers by providing high value solutions and impactful outcomes, by continuously challenging convention, and by caring for each other through collaboration and celebrating our successes.  We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities. 

Benefit offerings –_ _

may vary based on geographic location

• Wellness: Universal, supplemental, and private healthcare plan choices based on country specifics 

• Financial future: retirement/pension plan contributions, MTK stock plan participation  

• Income protection: life event & disability coverage 

• Paid time off: generous annual leave, company holidays, volunteer time off 

• Learning: e-learning license, tuition reimbursement, hackathons

 

Home office setup allowance

• Additional/optional benefits: pet insurance, identity theft protection, legal assistance

 

We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to the potential of speaking with you further!