Technical Lead & Release Manager

Requirements: 10+ years of experience building and supporting production business systems. Background as a senior engineer, technical lead, principal engineer, or in an equivalent hands-on technical leadership role. Strong practical experience with C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core/ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server. Production experience with Angular and TypeScript or a comparable modern web application stack. Solid knowledge of application architecture, system integrations, APIs, and software design patterns. Hands-on ownership of CI/CD, release management, deployment governance, and rollback planning. Significant experience supporting production systems and responding to incidents involving business-critical applications. Demonstrated ability to mentor developers through code review. Experience collaborating with distributed teams, offshore colleagues, and external vendors. Ability to use AI-assisted development tools in a professional workflow and review and govern their output. Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including least-privilege access, secrets management, and change control. Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risks to non-technical stakeholders. Ability to contract independently with a Canadian organization.

Preferred: experience with Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Cosmos DB; logistics, transportation, supply chain, shipping, or e-commerce; revenue-generating or transaction-intensive systems; legacy modernization; high-availability operations; or balancing operational support with longer-term improvements.

Responsibilities: Partner with our Director of Technology as a trusted technical adviser. Establish and maintain engineering standards through code reviews, technical guidance, and developer mentoring. Identify technical risks, dependencies, and implementation trade-offs before changes reach production. Support platform modernization and other long-term technical improvements. Own release planning, deployment readiness, and production releases. Ensure changes are reviewed, tested, documented, and recoverable, and strengthen release governance and rollback readiness. Work with engineering and infrastructure colleagues to make software delivery safer and more repeatable. Lead or co-lead investigations into production issues and business-critical incidents, drive root-cause analysis, and follow through on corrective actions. Communicate clearly with stakeholders during service disruptions. Review software changes for maintainability, performance, testing, and security. Help formalize change-management and development workflows, including practical safeguards for AI-assisted development. Collaborate with internal developers, offshore colleagues, and third-party partners. Support knowledge transfer and documentation, particularly where expertise is concentrated among a few people. Explain technical risks and trade-offs to technical and business audiences. During the first 90 days, learn our systems and release process, participate in production support, identify and implement high-impact delivery and reliability improvements, strengthen operational documentation, and recommend measurable quality and modernization objectives.

Technologies: .NET FrameworkAIASP.NETAngularC#CI/CDCosmos DBSupportMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgreSQLSQLSecurityTypeScriptWebNodeJSJavaScriptREST More: We are Broad Reach, a logistics and technology company specializing in cross-border parcel shipping, final-mile delivery, and third-party logistics. As part of Asendia, we operate business-critical platforms that support customer logistics workflows. We are seeking a senior, hands-on Technical Lead & Release Manager to improve engineering standards and reduce delivery risk across our operational, customer-facing, and internal systems. This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management position, and reports to our Director of Technology. Our environment includes modern and legacy applications, with a Microsoft-focused core stack and other technologies in regular use. The engagement is a remote independent-contractor role for someone based in the United States, United Kingdom, or South Africa, with meaningful daily overlap with Eastern Time business hours. Planned releases and urgent production issues may occasionally require work outside standard hours; this is not a full-time operations roster. The target start is within approximately 30 days of contract execution. Compensation is discussed during interviews, with payment in CAD or an agreed equivalent local currency; the role does not include employee benefits. The posted pay range is $100,000–$107,000 per year. last updated 45 week of 2026