Lead Engineer

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About TheGuarantors

TheGuarantors is a cutting edge fintech company whose mission is to improve renting affordability and accessibility for millions of renters nationwide. Its flagship financial and insurance products include Lease Guarantee, allowing renters to qualify for the home of their dreams, and Security Deposit Replacement, a highly affordable alternative to cash security deposits. 


Fresh off a $50M Series C funding round, TheGuarantors has more than doubled its revenue annually since inception, tripled its revenue in 2021 alone, and is rapidly expanding its footprint, team, and product in 2022. The company also ranks as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies, Forbes’ best startup employers, and most recently one of The Financial Times’ fastest growing companies in America.



The Opportunity


As a Tech Lead, you will be the leader of full stack, cross functional engineering teams, taking on the role of tech lead and people manager. This role will unblock your teams’ potential in terms of day to day processes and long term success.


Additionally, this role will partner with other leaders to define best practices regarding code, systems design, CI/CD, observability and reliability across the Engineering department.


We aim to foster an Engineering culture that emphasizes full-stack development teams that are empowered to make as many decisions as possible in their technical direction and processes.

What you'll do

  • Be a hands-on part of a multidisciplinary team to build next-generation software products (full-stack) and solutions
  • Be accountable for delivering well-architected, scalable designs and solutions
  • Mentor Engineers on architecture, coding and systems design best practices
  • Keep the engineering organization aligned on OKRs and other business objectives
  • Author technical documents and artifacts for all stages of the software development life cycle

What you bring

  • Professional experience as a tech lead for software engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of relevant production work experience in back-end, web or mobile development; preferably in GoLang or Typescript.
  • Track record of success in terms of ability to execute projects.
  • Willingness to work with and mentor other members of the engineering team.
  • Willingness to partner with Product to understand upcoming projects, and weigh decisions in terms of scope and business objectives.
  • Willingness to champion team needs, and get involved with strategic decisions in terms of personnel, business needs, and technical projects.
  • Deep understanding of API technologies.
  • Deep understanding of SQL technologies.
  • Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, and experience creating and evaluating technical design documents.

Nice To Have

  • People management experience.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
  • Experience building and working with full stack engineering teams that support a vertical slice of the product.
  • Familiarity with best practices of SRE (e.g. SLOs, KPIs, postmortems, incident management, toil reduction, etc.).
  • Experience with SOC compliant Fintech startups.
  • Experience working against AWS services.
  • Understanding of Agile, and a willingness to pivot and define software development processes.
  • Experience owning technical roadmaps and initiatives, and leading cross-team guilds.

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TheGuarantors is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all.



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One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007

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