Tech Lead - Product Engineering (Financial Services)

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Tech Lead, Product Engineering

This role is open to candidates across the U.S. There is a preference for those based in the New York area who can work in a hybrid setup three days a week. Candidates in other regions should be comfortable starting their day by 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time and traveling to New York up to three times per year for team gatherings.

Overview

• This company builds modern software for private capital markets, helping investment teams manage complex financial data and analyze performance with precision. The platform supports sophisticated analytics, detailed workflows, and large-scale data ingestion across venture capital, private equity, and credit strategies.
• You ll join a product-focused engineering team that works closely with product managers and designers to ship thoughtful, high-quality software. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and grounded in real-world impact. The systems you build will support mission-critical financial data and be used daily by experienced investment professionals.

The Role

• As a Tech Lead on the product engineering team, you ll own projects from early concept through production. You ll set technical direction, shape architecture, and stay hands-on in the code. This is a leadership role, but it is also deeply technical.
• You ll be trusted to make sound decisions about system design, data modeling, and development approach. You ll balance speed with long-term platform health and guide the team through complex technical challenges.

What You ll Do

• Lead technical initiatives from idea to launch, including architectural design, data structures, and implementation strategy
• Partner with product and design to build performant, intuitive features that directly support client needs
• Maintain high standards for reliability and data integrity while keeping delivery on track
• Mentor engineers at different levels of experience and help grow future technical leaders
• Introduce new tools, patterns, and practices that improve how the team builds and ships software

What You Bring

• At least nine years of professional software development experience, including leading complex technical projects
• Deep experience with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL, especially schema and API design
• Strong front-end experience with React and modern state and data management patterns such as React Query
• Comfort working through ambiguity and designing systems that account for data models, validation logic, workflows, and cross-system dependencies
• Clear communication skills and the ability to build alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A track record of making thoughtful tradeoffs that balance immediate business needs with long-term system health

Nice to Have

• Experience extending modern JavaScript libraries such as SpreadJS, HyperFormula, or AG Grid
• Background building computation-heavy services where performance and accuracy are critical
• Experience evolving complex data models as products grow and change
• Interest in tools that improve developer productivity, including AI-assisted coding
• Compensation and Benefits