What You’ll Do

• Team capacity planning and hiring: define roles, manage recruitment, interviewing, make hiring decisions, oversee onboarding.
• Hold regular team and one-on-one meetings.
• Leadership oversight and performance management for technical leads.
• Team-building activities.
• Manage personnel (dismissals, promotions, leave authorizations, bonuses, compensation).
• Regular performance reviews, address performance issues, and develop PIPs.
• Run regular grooming sessions.
• Assign and monitor engineering tasks.
• Provide technical validation (code review, quality assessment, and release authorization); serve as an escalation point for critical issues.
• Guide architectural design and technical decisions for integration projects.
• Define and enforce team-wide engineering standards.
• Oversee infrastructure architecture and security for distributed systems processing sensitive payroll, financial, and PII data in SOC 2-compliant environments.
• Lead design and implementation of data quality monitoring systems for payroll accuracy.
• Oversee project planning, execution, and timely completion.
• Task prioritization, track improvements in business metrics, identify blockers.
• Represent the engineering team in client-facing technical discussions.
• Telecommuting/Work-From-Home within the U.S.

Who You Are

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Aviation Technology, or related technical field and five years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or Backend Developer.
Knowledge of PII compliance frameworks and secure coding principles.
Proficiency in:
Python development, distributed backend architecture, API design, performance optimization.
Relational databases.
Major cloud platform deployment.
Experience with:
Designing authorized data extraction systems; API reverse-engineering, browser automation, anti-automation mitigation in compliant, user-authorized environments.
Handling sensitive financial data.
Implementing observability systems.
Data quality monitoring with alerting for production environments.
Implementing data validation and verification techniques, including heuristic or statistical methods for cross-source data validation of financial information.
Leading technical projects from design to release.
Establishing, enforcing engineering standards, code review workflows, and development best practices.
Cross-functional collaboration: translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Technical interviewing.
Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).
LLM-based autonomous agents and workflows for data processing.