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The Associate Technical Lead - Web plays a key role in building and scaling KAST. This is a high-ownership position where you’ll take responsibility for meaningful work from day one, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and help turn ambitious goals into real-world outcomes.
Your mission is to move fast and raise the bar. You’ll operate in a dynamic, high-growth environment, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and contribute to systems, products, or processes that scale with the company. Quality matters, speed matters, and ownership is non-negotiable.
This role is for builders, people who take initiative, think in systems, and care deeply about doing great work. If you’re excited about working at the intersection of technology, execution, and impact, you’ll feel right at home at KAST.
Associate Technical Lead - Web Development
ColomboPosted 3 weeks ago
Full-timehybrid
Job Description
Associate Technical Lead - Web Development
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Colombo
Description
The Associate Technical Lead - Web plays a key role in building and scaling KAST. This is a high-ownership position where you’ll take responsibility for meaningful work from day one, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and help turn ambitious goals into real-world outcomes.
Your mission is to move fast and raise the bar. You’ll operate in a dynamic, high-growth environment, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and contribute to systems, products, or processes that scale with the company. Quality matters, speed matters, and ownership is non-negotiable.
This role is for builders, people who take initiative, think in systems, and care deeply about doing great work. If you’re excited about working at the intersection of technology, execution, and impact, you’ll feel right at home at KAST.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable front-end components using React and Next.js.
- Drive the development of scalable systems, ensuring best practices in software architecture and code quality across the stack.
- Design and consume robust RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless data flow between complex frontend states and third-party financial or Web3 services.
- Obsess over frontend vitals, including lighting-fast load times, smooth user interactions, and efficient client-side state management to support a rapidly growing user base.
- Collaborate on deploying and scaling Next.js applications via AWS, leveraging workflows to maintain high deployment velocity.
- Act as the primary technical partner for UI/UX designers, translating high-fidelity wireframes into a scalable, reusable component library and ensuring pixel-perfect production features.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews and provide technical guidance to junior developers to foster a culture of engineering excellence.
- Troubleshoot complex technical challenges and ensure smooth operation of applications post-deployment.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 6+ years of full-stack development experience, with a track record of taking ownership of features from conception to deployment.
- Proficiency in React, Next.js, and Node.js. Mastery of modern CSS (Tailwind/Styled components) and state management (Zustand/TanStack Query). Experience with Go will be an added advantage.
- Experience with (or a deep interest in) blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (DApps).
- Solid hands-on experience with AWS or GCP (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.) and an understanding of serverless architectures.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
- A natural ability to guide peers, communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and write clear documentation.