9 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$225k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead large and complex engineering projects.
- Define technology strategies with a one- to two-quarter planning horizon and drive their implementation.
- Mentor and support the growth of talented full stack engineers.
- Help shape product and design roadmaps.
- Own architectural decisions, scalability planning, and the long-term strategic vision for key components.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Legal, Compliance, Customer Experience, and engineering leaders on cohesive platform-wide solutions.
- Improve the core applications experience for deal organizers and investors.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a record of technical leadership and organization-wide impact.
- Expertise building large-scale, highly reliable distributed backend systems, ideally in fintech or payments.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript is highly preferred.
- Experience independently managing complete project lifecycles from complex or ambiguous requirements through successful launches.
- Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and building core services with clean interfaces.
- Product sense and experience building robust systems that affect business-critical customer workflows.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse teams.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and guide several engineers across multiple projects.
- Ability to implement and influence engineering best practices.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging agentic software development workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco with 2 days per week in the office.
Tech Stack
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About Sydecar
Sydecar builds a deal-execution platform that lets venture fund and syndicate managers form SPVs and handle banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting. It provides software and embedded financial operations that standardize private-investment workflows from vehicle creation through closing. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves venture investors and other capital allocators in private markets.