Team Leader, Engineering – Account Linking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Manage a small engineering team that has a direct impact on the business.

• Champion Account Linking and cultivate relationships with engineering leaders, product managers, and operations team members.

• Foster collaboration and assist teams in effectively utilizing financial account data.

• Steer architectural decisions and pinpoint investments that support scalability and maintainability.

• Establish metrics for account-connection health and ensure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial data.

• Oversee monitoring, incident response, and enhancements in root-cause analysis.

• Take ownership of team commitments and implement a quarterly roadmap.

• Balance the development of new capabilities with reliability and long-term system health.

• Make informed decisions, eliminate obstacles, communicate updates and risks, and reprioritize with Product.

• Engage in RFCs, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving efforts.

• Assess trade-offs, assist in implementation unblocking, and promote the adoption of effective software-development practices.

• Mentor engineers by providing constructive feedback, conducting regular 1:1 meetings, and performance evaluations.

• Create tailored growth plans and facilitate opportunities for engineers to advance their skills.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in delivering production systems.

• Proficiency in Node/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Postgres or a similar relational database (preferred).

• Experience with supporting external integrations.

• Proven track record of driving operational excellence within platform teams.

• Experience managing large data sets in a production environment.

• Familiarity with observability and root-cause analysis to enhance reliability and data quality.

• At least one year of experience in leading an engineering team.

• A history of guiding senior individual contributors.

• Experience in FinTech or consumer applications is advantageous, but not mandatory.

• Ability to lead with empathy and inquisitiveness.

• Sound judgment and capability to convert ambiguous challenges into actionable plans.

• Strong communication skills for articulating risks and trade-offs.

• High attention to detail, organization, and commitment to follow-through.

• Proficiency in communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision Plans.

• Competitive Pay.

• Matching 401k.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Daily Lunch.

• Snacks & Coffee.

• Commuter benefits.

• Bonus.