Engineering Lead
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About the role
We are looking for a Tech Lead to join our engineering team. This position is remote. You will lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, owning the foundational systems that serve as the source of truth for transactions, balances, and financial movement across our platform. You will shape the architectural direction of our financial health product offering. This includes designing novel financial product systems, spearheading banking partner integrations, and maintaining precision across our ledgers and repayment reconciliation processes. This is a rare opportunity to build the backbone of a whole new set of personal financial health products. You will set the technical bar for the team, guide system design decisions, and drive the reliability and accuracy that our users depend on to manage their financial lives. Working closely with product and engineering partners, you will operate in a fast-paced environment where sound architectural judgment and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing precision are essential.
What you'll bring
- You have 7+ years of professional experience, with at least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role
- You don’t just write code
- you design systems.
- You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed environments
- You have a strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions
- You have excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
- You’re familiar with complex large scale distributed systems
- Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python
- Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), specifically regarding transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale
- Strong experience with Kafka for building resilient, asynchronous workflows
- Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
- Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) and container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes