Lead Engineer

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Team Overview:

The Auditability, Compliance, and Exchange team works hand in hand with our existing Payments team to ensure the accuracy of our internal financial record keeping, as well as providing and assisting with data exchange pipelines and ETL processes between highly secure financial systems of record. They are partners who help to bridge the gap between the needs of our sales and finance teams, our Payments product engineering teams, and our customers themselves.

How you’ll make an impact:

Our Lead Engineer role for this time is our first hire, and is someone who will need to wear many hats as the team ramps up. Your primary responsibilities will be to work closely with our existing Payments team as you understand the details and challenges of our existing compliance and data exchange needs, as you work to make progress into our and further define the team's roadmap. The right candidate is detail oriented, obsesses over data accuracy, and has a strong fundamental understanding of why keeping our internal financial data compliant and auditable matters to the business and to our customers, and is motivated to own and drive work in this space. You’ll also be chiefly involved in helping to build the team out via hiring and interviewing, and have the opportunity to lead and manage the team as it becomes fully operational.

Team Tech Stack:

• Python / Django
• React
• MySQL
• Redis
• Memcached
• RabbitMQ / Celery
• Apache Pulsar

Required Skills:

• Experience building and improving financial systems of record and data exchange pipelines
• Experience improving the visibility and accuracy of key financial data from a compliance and auditability standpoint
• Experience working with various architectures, frameworks, and systems
• Hands-on experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems
• Significant experience with full stack application development
• Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Proven experience with being a coach and a mentor for team members and helping them grow

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Stripe, Avalara, and Netsuite
• Experience with SFDC
• Experience managing or leading small teams