Job Description

Toast is recruiting on behalf of this company, a fast-growing leader in financial empowerment. Their platform helps businesses improve employee financial wellness through innovative solutions like earned wage access, reducing financial stress and increasing workplace productivity. With strong funding and industry recognition, this company is expanding its engineering team and is looking for a Tech Lead to drive technical excellence, scalability, and best practices.

As a Tech Lead, you will be a senior member of the Technology team, responsible for tackling complex technical challenges, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers. You will play a key role in shaping architecture, driving best practices, and ensuring the platform scales effectively as the company grows. This role requires deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, infrastructure, data engineering, and observability tools.

Key Responsibilities

Design and maintain scalable, secure software architectures that align with business objectives.
Introduce and implement best practices around object-oriented programming (OO), domain-driven design (DDD), and microservices where appropriate.
Bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure, leveraging APMs and observability platforms to optimize performance and set quantitative benchmarks.
Implement and enforce coding standards and best practices to improve code quality and maintainability.
Conduct regular code reviews, providing constructive feedback to enhance software performance and reduce bugs.
Facilitate communication between development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure technical alignment.
Leverage application data, third-party data, and data warehouses to drive insights, improve product impact, and optimize performance.

Requirements

6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails in production environments.
Hands-on experience deploying AWS resources, RDS, queues, and serverless solutions.
Strong knowledge of APM tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, or other observability platforms) for performance monitoring and optimization.
Expertise in data engineering, including complex SQL queries, optimization, and ETL processes.
Strong analytical skills, with experience working with data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Prefect) and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Metabase, Looker).
Mastery of software fundamentals: SOLID coding principles, domain-driven design, performance optimization, and testing.
Experience leading projects related to scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and third-party data ingestion.
Strong security mindset, with familiarity in OWASP, secure development practices, and SOC-2 processes.

Bonus Points For

Experience with B2B SaaS products and integrations (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce).
Background in FinTech, payroll systems, or financial services.

Benefits

Fully Remote – Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - jobs are fully remote, forever
Flexible Time Off – Whether it's a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – their “You-do-You” time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of the team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
Day-One Benefits – Medical, vision, dental, mental health coverage, and wellness stipends.
Inclusive Parental Leave – Comprehensive leave and top-up support.
Supportive Culture – Earned wage access, real-time salary insights, and a learning-friendly environment.

Technical Lead, Development