Engineering Lead

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Right Seat

Engineering Lead

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Engineering Lead

    Role Summary

    Our Client is building modern rails for small-business receivables. As Head of Engineering (path to CTO) reporting to the CEO, you will set the engineering vision, own architecture and delivery, and stay hands-on to ship the work that matters. You’ll hire and grow a high-performing team, establish culture and processes that balance velocity with reliability, and decompose complex projects into safe, shippable increments. With a customer-first mindset and an obsession for financial transaction correctness, you’ll partner with leadership to turn strategy into outcomes across modern stacks and cloud. Tel Aviv (hybrid) or New York. Seed-stage. High ownership. High impact.

    About Our Client

    Our Client is reimagining how small businesses access and manage their receivables. The team spans the U.S. and Israel and brings deep experience building software and companies. Backed by leading investors and growing quickly with customer momentum and strategic partnerships, Our Client offers a high-ownership environment where your work directly improves the financial health of small businesses.

    Key Responsibilities

    • First 90 Days: Define and begin executing clear engineering delivery objectives; establish core ceremonies, metrics, and quality gates.
    • First 12 Months: Mature the engineering roadmap and architecture; scale the team; consistently ship customer-value safely and quickly.
    • Lead and scale the engineering organization, working directly with the CEO; set a clear vision, technical standards, and delivery cadence.
    • Establish engineering culture, processes, and procedures that emphasize safety, quality, and speed—suitable for financial-grade systems.
    • Own architecture and roadmap; break complex initiatives into low-risk, shippable increments; stay hands-on as an IC where it matters.
    • Drive product innovation through rapid iteration, strong technical choices, and close engagement with customers and internal partners.
    • Build and mentor a high-performing team, strengthening hiring, onboarding, coaching, and growth practices across Tel Aviv and New York.

    Required Qualifications & Skills

    • 7+ years of modern software development (e.g., Python, Golang, Node.js) with a track record of shipping in production.
    • Proven leadership guiding teams through ambiguity; sets direction, raises the quality bar, and delivers reliably.
    • Systems thinking and the ability to see the big picture and decompose complex work into safe, incremental releases.
    • Web & Infra: Webflow, Vercel, AWS, GCP, JSON-centric integrations.
    • Cloud: AWS and/or GCP (production operations experience valued).
    • Data: SQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.).
    • Customer orientation: passionate about helping customers and turning feedback into product and platform outcomes.
    • Financial rigor: obsessed with the correctness of financial transactions and data integrity.
    • Location: Position is located in Tel Aviv, with an option for remote; New York hybrid is also considered.

    Nice to Have

    • Experience in or with Israeli startup teams; comfortable collaborating across cultures, time zones, and rapid decision cycles.
    • Finance/fintech domain familiarity or experience with transaction-heavy systems.
    • Full-stack openness and strong fundamentals across services, APIs, and data.
    • High-growth, early-stage experience leading a young, hungry team.
    • Bonus Skills Nice to Have
    • SQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and solid data modeling for transactional accuracy.
    • Cloud infrastructure management on AWS and/or GCP (deployments, observability, performance, and cost awareness).

    Why Work for Our Client

    • Mission with Impact: Help small businesses thrive by building technology that improves their financial health.
    • High Ownership, High Growth: Shape engineering foundations and culture at a seed-stage company with a clear path to leadership.
    • Backed for Success: Supported by top-tier investors and a leadership team with deep experience in scaling startups.
    • Flexibility & Collaboration: Hybrid work options, a global team culture, and the autonomy to innovate quickly.

    Equal Opportunity

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