Software Engineer Team Lead, Full Stack

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Founded in 2014, Even Financial is a B2B fintech company that is transforming the way financial institutions find and connect with consumers. As the leading search, comparison, and recommendation engine for financial services, Even seamlessly bridges financial institutions (including American Express, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi) and channel partners (such as TransUnion and The Penny Hoarder) via its simple yet robust API. Even turns any consumer touchpoint into an ROI-driven, fully customizable, programmatic acquisition source with full compliance and security at scale. Even’s investors are leading financial services firms and VCs, including American Express Ventures, Canaan Partners, Citi Ventures, F-Prime Capital (Fidelity), Greatpoint Ventures, Goldman Sachs, LendingClub, and MassMutual Ventures. Even placed in the Top 50 of the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, awarded to the fastest growing tech companies in the world, and has originated over $3B in credit to date. 

We are looking for an experienced engineer and leader to oversee a dedicated full stack engineering team. In this position you will own our Life Insurance vertical from frontend to backend, working in close collaboration with Product to define and deliver features. You will conduct 1:1s with your team, mentor engineers, lead recruitment and help define standards and processes.

Day to day:

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers to create great products
  • Contribute to code bases in the Life Insurance vertical from front end to back end, built on the latest versions of AWS, React, Scala, Postgres
  • Recruit, develop and retain top talent
  • Own software development lifecycle and Agile practices, including sprint planning, retrospectives, etc
  • Review code with an emphasis on readability, maintainability and standards
  • Maintain libraries for code used across applications
  • Help establish and operationalize best practices and frameworks
  • Identify opportunities for improved process, efficiency and impact
  • Participate in discussions around feasibility and scope of product initiatives
  • Interface with product, business and other team leads to coordinate resources, define projects and manage work
  • Demonstrate company values and promote them on the team: empowerment, transparency, empirical and fearlessness

You may be a fit if you have:

  • 5+ years software engineer experience or a strong academic background in computer science
  • 2+ years proven success leading, mentoring and developing engineering teams, preferably in a high growth, tech start-up environment
  • Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product and business functions to deliver functionality
  • Competencies in both pure front end frameworks (React/Angular) and server side Javascript/ producing APIs (Express) with the ability to contribute code to at least one of those areas
  • Comfortable with infrastructure, hosting, CI/CD pipelines and discussing, if not implementing these infrastructures
  • Meticulous attention to detail, in both your own work and when reviewing others'
  • Strong people skills with a well-developed management philosophy, including opinions on process and how teams should operate

Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision packages + life and disability insurance

401K retirement plans

Stock options

Company paid holidays

Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

A subsidized gym membership with ClassPass

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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We’re located in “Silicon Alley”, in the Flatiron/Chelsea district of NYC—a neighborhood booming with tech, great food, and dogs!

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