[Hiring] Lead Engineer @Leap

Role Description

You lead the FinTech engineering team, and you stay in the code. The team is a pod: a product manager who owns what we build, and you, the lead, who owns how it gets built and who distributes the work. Today that is five to six engineers on the lending and payment services running in production, plus a partner engineering team building the new platform, whose technical direction you set and whose work you review.

Leap is an AI-native company, and this codebase is built for it. We do not permit AI-assisted development, we build around it:

• Agent-oriented skills architecture
• MCP tooling
• Spec-driven work
• Agents running in parallel

This role carries a high bar for how you personally build with AI, and a second bar for how you bring a team to that way of working. We want an engineer who hands whole features to autonomous agents, runs several at once, reviews and directs their output rather than hand-typing most of the code, and builds the skills, tools, and guardrails that make agents effective.

The role is deliberately sequenced. You start inside the services contractors use today: the lender integrations, the credit application flow, the Leap Pay path, and the data model under both. You ship improvements there, write down how it actually works, and teach it back to the rest of engineering. In parallel, you review and contribute to the new platform as it stands up.

You sit inside Leap Engineering. Our SDLC, release process, code review, alerting and on-call, and delivery review apply to FinTech the same way they apply to every team. The Head of FinTech is your daily product and business partner: lender relationships, compliance obligations, and the commercial commitments the build is made against. You bring that context into engineering and carry engineering decisions back.

What You Will Do

• Lead the FinTech engineering team: planning, technical design review, code review standards, mentorship, and interviewing as the team grows
• Write production code in critical-path systems; roughly 70% of your time is hands-on
• Ship with agents, not around them: delegate whole features to autonomous agents, run several in parallel, and own the spec, the review, and the bar for everything they produce
• Bring the FinTech team and the partner team to the same way of working: the skills architecture, MCP tools, specs, and guardrails that let agents ship safely
• Codify context and patterns so both engineers and agents move faster
• Build a working command of the lending and payment services in Leap SalesPro and Leap CRM, improve them, and document them
• Set technical direction for the partner team’s work on the new platform
• Own major domains of the new platform end to end: data model, API surface, service boundaries, and production operation
• Own the integration seam between the new platform and Leap’s products
• Handle money and sensitive data with rigor
• Keep Eastern hours; the engineers you lead are in India

What We Are Looking For

Required

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 at senior or above
• You have led engineers while still shipping: design review, sprint planning, code review, honest feedback, and production code in the same week
• Full-stack depth in TypeScript: deep on Node and PostgreSQL or on React, and competent in both
• You have built systems that integrate third-party financial APIs with complex asynchronous flows
• You have learned an unfamiliar, under-documented codebase fast and explained it back to others
• You have owned production systems end to end
• You have been accountable for work you do not line-manage
• You are comfortable in regulated environments
• AI is central to how you ship, and you already work at a high level of autonomy with it
• Authorized to work in the US and able to keep Eastern time zone hours

Preferred

• Consumer lending, loan origination, point-of-sale financing, or fintech marketplace experience
• Payment facilitator or merchant provisioning experience
• Legacy modernization experience
• Internal technical lead alongside an outsourced or partner engineering team
• Compliance frameworks experience
• You have built the tooling side of agentic development
• Home services or contractor-facing SaaS experience

Benefits

• Affordable Health & Wellness Coverage – comprehensive and competitive benefits package, starting the first of the month following your hire date.
• Invest in Your Future – 401(k) company match to help you build financial security.
• Time to Recharge – Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy, 10 paid sick days, and 8 paid company holidays.
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – resources to support your mental health, financial well-being, and everyday challenges.
• Exclusive Discounts with LifeMart (via ADP) – save on groceries, restaurants, entertainment, pet insurance, cell phones, child care, and more!
• MoveSpring Wellness App – stay active and engaged with company step challenges, workout content, meditation tools, and wellness blogs for a healthier you!
• Culture & Team-Building Activities – team events, fun challenges, and company traditions like our Annual Summit!