Position: Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead
Location: San Francisco, California
Duration: Full Time
15+ Years
Job Title: Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead on site
Location:
SF/Bay Area, California working at an upstart company in Fintech/Financial App for emerging markets.
The Role
A Technical Lead on our team is a hands-on leadership role for candidates with breadth across multiple layers of our stack and the judgment to drive technical outcomes. We are building:
- An iOS app (Swift)
- An Android app (Kotlin)
- A Web app (React)
- A standalone backend (Python + FastAPI, Postgres, AWS)
If you bring a mix of these skill sets and can guide others to deliver high-quality software, this role may be a strong fit. Please also review our Senior Android/iOS/Frontend/Backend roles for deeper, discipline-specific details.
As an early engineering leader, you will define our architecture, set engineering standards, and lead the delivery of a performant, reliable, and secure product from the ground up. The problem space includes financial services with real-money movement at international scale and non-trivial compliance, integrity, and latency constraints. You will collaborate across product, design, and operations, and help grow and mentor the team. You will work directly with the founders. This role may expand to broader engineering leadership across platforms as we scale.
Interview Stages
4
MUST HAVE SKILLS
Requirements
- Experience at banking/credit card/crypto/remittances/lending startups
- Experience dealing with the nitty-gritty of Anti-Fraud, AML, Ledgering, Payments Orchestration
- 7-10 years building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web applications with meaningful fullstack exposure (e.g., React/TypeScript, Python, Go/Rust, Postgres, AWS, modern CI/CD).
- Demonstrated experience managing technical teams, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.
You might be an especially good fit if you have:
- Experience building for the Latin American market
- Experience in financial technology
- Strong systems-thinking and design sense
Requirements
First candidate was very competent enterprise engineering leader, but client is looking for someone super hands-on, brings some mobile exposure, and someone who has start up experience is what they want. NOT someone who has been high up in management at an enterprise corporation, which is a big mismatch with this client