Investing Tech Team Lead

Summary

Join The Motley Fool's dynamic engineering team as a leader of the investing microservices. You will orchestrate systems handling real-time market data and cutting-edge crypto analytics, innovating at the intersection of fintech and software engineering. Responsibilities include leading development and execution of microservices, ensuring alignment with business objectives, managing critical data, collaborating with various teams, and driving team member professional development. This role requires extensive experience in Python-based frameworks, performance optimization, database management, and full-stack web application development. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving and communication skills and a proven track record in high-performance teams. The annual pay range is $160,000 - $200,000 USD.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining apis consumed by multiple systems using a Python-based framework like Django, FastApi, or Flask
• Proficient with performance optimization (async processing, caching, queuing, and query optimization)
• Experienced with system monitoring and telemetry
• Experienced working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL
• Skilled at developing full-stack web applications
• Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions
• Proven track record in high-performance teams, where cross-functional collaboration is valued
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Knowledge of investing and/or finance

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of Motley Fool’s investing microservices, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: US and international market data
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: Portfolio holdings and returns
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: Corporate actions
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: Company fundamentals
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: Crypto, Options, and IPOs
• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including: Automated aggregation of subscriber portfolios across brokerages
• Responsible for in-house systems that manage trading compliance and holdings disclosures
• Integrate with a variety of third party providers and tools
• Ensure calculations are accurate with automated tests to validate
• Ensure critical data is fresh and highly available with failover capabilities
• Collaborate with the team’s product owner and project manager to set the team up for success with shovel ready work that has the value and acceptance criteria clearly defined
• Conduct regular 1:1s with direct reports
• Regularly review code, contributions, and delivery flow to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
• Drive professional development and career growth opportunities for team members
• Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch subscriber-facing solutions
• Find ways to leverage AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to assist the team (e.g. architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, automated tests)

Preferred Qualifications

• Architecting and developing stock investing microservices
• Experience with NextJs, React, Javascript
• Experience with portfolio aggregation services like Plaid
• Experience with Docker and containerization, as well as CI/CD pipelines
• Prior management and leadership experience

Benefits

Annual Pay Range: $160,000 — $200,000 USD