[Hiring] Engineering Team Lead @Fuelfinance

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a new engineering team working on a new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance AI finance platform. This is a player-coach role: roughly half of your time is hands-on engineering, the other half is leading — architecture, planning, hiring, and growing people. You start with a team of one senior engineer and help hire the rest. You are the technical decision-maker for this direction and are accountable for what it ships.

The Team

• You'll build a new team inside R&D.
• You'll report to the Head of Engineering.
• Work closely with the core product team (5 engineers, 1 QA), the Product Director, and the C-level team.

What Will You Build?

• A new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance platform (details are shared during the interview process).
• The architecture that lets it reuse and extend the core platform:
  • AI finance agents
  • MCP infrastructure and agent orchestration
  • Integrations with accounting platforms, banks, and payment systems (QuickBooks, Xero, Stripe)
  • Access controls and reporting
• The team itself: hiring, onboarding, engineering practices, and standards.

What Are Your Responsibilities?

• Lead a small engineering team as a player-coach — ~50% hands-on coding and reviews, ~50% architecture, planning, and people.
• Own the architecture of the product line — make and defend design decisions, keep them aligned with the core platform, drive System Design Reviews.
• Own delivery and be accountable for outcomes — plan, estimate, raise risks early, ship fast without cutting corners that matter.
• Hold the quality bar — testing strategy, code review standards, observability, and incident response are your responsibility.
• Hire and grow the team — take part in hiring, run 1:1s, give regular feedback, develop engineers along our seniority grading.
• Be a product partner — work directly with the Product Director and stakeholders, understand customer problems, push back on scope when needed.
• Set the standard for AI-native engineering — agentic coding workflows, proper codebase context, end-to-end verification — and make it the team's default.
• Keep security and data integrity at the core of everything — we handle customers' financial data.
• Protect the team's culture — ownership, direct communication, honest feedback.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a team with real accountability for delivery.
• Experience building products or systems from scratch and taking them to production with a small team.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development (a must) — not just chat-based usage: you build agentic coding workflows, feed the right codebase context to models, and verify AI output with end-to-end testing.
• Proficiency in both frontend and backend development: TypeScript, Node.js (Nest.js), React, SQL, MongoDB.
• AWS knowledge.
• Strong system design skills — you design for scale, security, and maintainability and can explain trade-offs to non-engineers.
• Experience hiring and mentoring engineers.
• Experience enhancing system and infrastructure security.
• B2/C1 English level.
• Comfortable with startup mode: shifting priorities, fast pace, high ownership.

Will Be a Plus:

• Experience with LLM APIs in production (Anthropic, OpenAI), RAG, agents, or evals.
• Fintech background or experience on security-focused projects.
• Knowledge of one of the following: Go, Python.
• Early-stage startup experience.
• Experience with infrastructure setup.

Recruitment Process:

• Soft skills interview.
• System Design & Experience Review.
• Leadership & Management interview.
• Culture fit interview.

Benefits

• Build a new product line from day one — architecture, team, and practices are yours to shape.
• Real leadership scope early — you own a direction and work directly with the Product Director and C-level.
• Build the future of finance work — design AI-native finance products, not just maintain them.
• Rapid skills improvement.
• Growth opportunities according to our seniority grading (it comes with a compensation increase).
• Flexible schedule and time-off policy.
• 18 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leaves.