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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates strong engineering leadership with a focus on building and managing high-performing teams, while delivering innovative financial products and ensuring system reliability in complex domains. Capable of making strategic architectural decisions and mentoring engineers to elevate team performance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Team Building0-To-1 Product DevelopmentTransactional Systems DesignTechnical MentorshipFintech Experience
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Hard Skills
Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureCode DesignPerformance ManagementTechnical Problem SolvingHiring and OnboardingFeedback and MentorshipDecisiveness Under AmbiguityReliability Engineering
Soft Skills
CoachingCollaborationCredibility with ExecutivesCommunicationAdaptability
Tools & Technologies
AI Developer ToolingEnterprise Financial SystemsVertical SaaS
Industry Keywords
FintechPaymentsPayrollWorkforce ManagementField Services
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build and hire the Financials engineering team
- Find, attract, hire, onboard, coach, and manage performance for engineers
- Ship multiple 0-to-1 financial products, expanding expenses, reimbursements, and per diems into enterprise-ready financial systems
- Remain hands-on as a player-coach, solving difficult engineering problems through code and design
- Set the Financials roadmap, architecture, and quality bar
- Own reliability for business-critical systems
- Partner directly with the CEO and earliest Financials customers to discover product requirements
- Make fast but durable architecture and product decisions for a greenfield project
- Participate in recruiter, hiring manager, technical, and virtual onsite interviews
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant hands-on engineering career at senior or staff level
- Moving into or early in management; first or second management role
- Experience taking 0-to-1 products or new product lines from scratch to shipped
- Experience in a complex, high-correctness domain such as fintech, payments, or payroll
- Ability to design and evolve correctness-critical transactional systems at scale
- Strong engineering ability, capable of being among the strongest engineers on the team
- Track record of attracting and hiring strong engineers
- Experience raising a small team's level through direct feedback and technical mentorship
- Decisiveness under ambiguity
- Credibility with executives and demanding customers
- Nice to have: vertical SaaS, construction or field-services, workforce and payroll experience, direct financial systems experience, latest AI developer tooling, and UX aptitude
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Must answer whether immigration sponsorship will be required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary, commission, and equity packages
- Comprehensive medical, dental, FSA, and vision plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with company-matched contributions
- Flexible PTO
- Generous 16-week paid parental leave for all parents, including adoptive and foster parents
- Annual educational allowance for external professional development
- Snacks, coffee, lunch, and commuter benefits for in-office employees
- Company-wide and team-specific off-sites
- Company-reimbursed relocation to San Francisco or New York City for remote employees