Team Leader, Engineering - Account Linking

Role overview Lead a small engineering team responsible for the services that connect users’ financial accounts and provide current, accurate balances and transaction data. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical direction, operational reliability, and delivery planning across a platform used by product and operations partners.

Responsibilities - Build strong working relationships across engineering, product, and operations, explaining the account-linking platform’s capabilities and constraints. - Guide architecture and technical investments so the platform can grow while remaining maintainable. - Define and track the health of account connections and the accuracy, completeness, and freshness of financial data. - Improve monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis to reduce recurring reliability and data-quality problems. - Own quarterly delivery commitments, coordinate with Product on priorities, remove blockers, and communicate progress and risks. - Stay involved through design proposals, code reviews, and technical problem-solving while coaching engineers and supporting their growth.

Requirements - At least eight years of experience building and shipping production software, ideally with Node.js/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL or comparable technologies. - At least one year leading an engineering team, including experience guiding senior individual contributors. - Experience with external integrations, production data at scale, and improving platform reliability through observability and root-cause analysis. - Ability to balance technical guidance with team ownership, adapting coaching to individual needs. - Pragmatic planning and communication skills: turn unclear problems into achievable work, explain trade-offs, and partner with Product on outcomes. - Strong organization and follow-through, including making system health, ownership, and issues clear to technical and nontechnical partners.

Nice to have Experience in financial technology or consumer applications is helpful but not required.

Benefits and work setup The listed benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) match; paid time off; daily lunch; snacks and coffee; and commuter benefits. Compensation is listed as $150,000–$200,000 per year, plus bonus and benefits; the offered base pay may depend on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience.