Lead Bank is a chartered banking-as-a-service platform for builders and innovators. Despite broader economic headwinds, the continued proliferation of fintech companies and a 20x increase in fintech investment ($20.5 billion in 2020) signals that the market’s interest in embedding financial services products into their offerings is resilient and sustainable. Whether it’s a travel company that wants to offer credit for an expensive trip, a social network that wants to enable in-feed shopping solutions, or an ecommerce platform that wants to provide client rewards cards, the broader tech ecosystem has enjoyed a step-change in the sophistication, variety and complexity of client-facing products they can offer. This means that the underlying infrastructure powering those fintechs needs to evolve to meet these modern demands.
While fintech companies continue pushing boundaries, they have largely accepted that directly integrating with banks is costly, time-consuming and operationally burdensome. This frustration comes in many forms: gaps in technical acumen, product scalability, client risk appetite, and company culture. These gaps clearly illustrate the need for a new paradigm in banking technology.
Lead Bank is bridging those gaps. We see a massive opportunity for a tech-savvy developer-focused bank to augment a sophisticated financial services platform with the compliance, regulatory, capital markets, and legal expertise required to help our clients succeed. Come join us on our journey.
About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and proven engineering leader to lead a very experienced engineering team to deliver new banking services for enterprise customers, and to expand the depth of existing services. This senior leadership position requires exceptional technical and people management skills and the ability to form strong partnerships with stakeholders across the organization to influence the company’s strategic direction.
The ideal candidate has led highly effective development teams of managers, engineers, and architects, and demonstrated extensive technical prowess in the cloud-native space, with experience operating at scale across a diverse set of technologies.
What you’ll do:
- You will lead and expand a rapidly growing team, building a team culture of collaboration, quality, innovation, and efficiency, relentlessly focusing on customer needs.
- You will play a pivotal role in driving the development and execution of our engineering & business strategy, and partner with the business leadership to take full ownership of outcomes
- You will collaborate closely with product and business teams, setting the roadmap, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions, and driving the continuous improvement of our engineering practices
- You’ll merge your real-world business instincts and understanding with technical skills to innovate and impact the company
- You will be working across multiple disciplines within a dynamic, fast-growing company to deliver impactful outcomes. You’ll bring order and focus while leaving room for flexibility and innovation
What we are looking for:
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated success designing and building large scale distributed systems. Experience in building financial systems or platforms is a huge plus.
- 7+ years of Engineering leadership, with a proven track record of delivering high quality products, hiring, and leading leaders
- Experience building products and teams from the ground up
- Ability to define and effectively communicate technical vision, and inspire the organization around a shared vision for success
- Experience building and nurturing cultures of operational excellence and a track record of successfully scaling organizations
- Ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, offer engineering advice, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers, and ensure everyone delivers quality results
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and ability to communicate directly and clearly, with a strong emphasis on careful listening
- Previous exposure to making business-level tradeoffs, balancing the needs of our customers with those of our business and clearly communicating the rationale behind your decisions
- Good instincts matched with deep analytical thinking. You’re comfortable defining and tracking key business and usage success metrics, but also recognize that metrics never tell the whole story
- Real passion to understand customer needs and a strong motivation to solve their problems rather than focusing on technology as an end in itself
What we offer:
- At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life
- Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants, based on experience, geographic location, and role
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
**Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone 1: $260,000 - $300,000 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, LA)
Zone 2: $217,000 - $275,500 (Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Diego, DC)
Zone 3: $169,400 - $260,000 (Other US Metros)
