or apply directly on Nexla's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Nexla's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 40% of Nexla's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Nexla
- moderate 1 stale, 0 reposted of 5 open
- Hiring momentum
- 6 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Nexla's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Nexla.
About this role
As a Technical Lead Manager at Nexla, you will oversee the architecture of the connector layer that integrates with over a thousand systems, ensuring high throughput and reliability. Your role involves hands-on design and coding, managing a small team of engineers, and defining the connector roadmap based on customer needs. You will also be responsible for improving the reliability of the systems your team delivers and mentoring engineers through design reviews and technical guidance.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Nexla as an employer.
What you need
- 10+ years building backend systems, and you are still hands-on.
- Deep JVM experience.
- Production depth in Kafka, Redis or Memcached, and APIs over gRPC and REST, Kubernetes at high throughput.
- Experience leading engineers technically: design review, mentoring, raising the bar on a team.
- Experience using AI tools in your actual work.
Nice to have
- Data integration, ETL, or iPaaS background.
- Experience wrangling JSON, Parquet, Avro, and worse at scale.
- Experience carrying direct reports, including performance conversations.
What you get
- Compensation includes base salary, bonus, and equity, set by depth and experience rather than by title.
- Hybrid work model with some overlap with Pacific hours.
Worth weighing
- Role requires a significant hands-on coding component, not suitable for those looking to step away from coding.
- Expectations for urgency and ownership of outcomes may lead to a high-pressure environment.
- The role emphasizes technical depth and scope over team expansion.
Summarised from Nexla's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Nexla on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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