Role Overview:

The Senior Technical Lead will have end-to-end technical ownership of Avalo’s software platform. This role combines architecture, hands-on development, contractor oversight, and strategic decision-making.

You will be responsible for:

●       The quality of the codebase

●       The soundness of the system architecture

●       The effectiveness of engineering execution

●       Ensuring the platform supports regulatory, operational, and client requirements

Candidates are expected to not only be managers within our organization, but are expected to build, review, and lead.

Job Responsibilities:

●       Own the end-to-end architecture of the Avalo platform, balancing reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability in a regulated fintech environment.

●       Design and enforce API-first, modular architectures that support third-party integrations, internal workflows, and regulatory constraints.

●       Establish and maintain development best practices, coding standards, and review processes.

●       Implement software and test suites in our tech stack (TypeScript, Angular, Express, MySQL, Docker) or with other tools as suits the challenge.

●       Establish and evolve development processes, release discipline, and quality standards that support frequent, reliable delivery in a production fintech system.

●       Oversee the work of our development contractors to ensure their work meets our specifications and standard of quality.

●       Guide our long-term, big-picture technical decisions. Help us determine what technology we should be using.

●       Set our development practices and coding standards.

●       Partner with other leaders in the Company to set scope and schedule of projects. Communicate regularly until the job is done.

●       Work with developers from vendors and client on projects like API integrations and custom feature development.

●       Own system reliability and operational readiness, including performance monitoring, error handling, logging, and incident response.

●       Design systems that support auditability, traceability, and regulatory review, including clear data lineage and state transitions.

●       Actively identify and reduce technical debt, balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.

●       Partner with Product and Compliance to translate regulatory requirements into pragmatic technical solutions, not overbuilt abstractions.

●       Own the observability and logging architecture, including centralized logging, metrics, and monitoring (e.g., Elasticsearch, Kibana, Filebeat), ensuring production visibility, audit readiness, and effective incident response.

●       Maintain disaster recovery and business continuity architecture, including backup strategies, failover mechanisms, and recovery procedures aligned with regulatory expectations (RTO/RPO).

Your Skills:

-       Collaborating with and influencing other Leaders.

-       Context switching from high-level strategy to hands-on execution.

-       Communicating your ideas effectively through a variety of techniques-- writing, sketches, prototypes, etc.

-       Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional teams.

-       Leading software teams that deliver working software.

-       Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with strong business acumen.

-       Prior involvement with a fast-growing startup or experience in a similar rapid-growth environment

-       Comfort operating in ambiguous, under-documented environments and bringing structure where none exists.

-       Strong intuition for failure modes, edge cases, and operational risk in production systems.

-       Ability to say “no” and simplify when systems or processes become over-engineered.

Your Experience:

-       5+ years of professional development experience as a member of a development team.

-       5+ years of experience building web applications and RESTful APIs.

-       Experience with TypeScript and Express, or a comparable web development stack.

-       Experience supporting production systems used by financial or operational teams, not just end users.

Nice to Have:

-       Prior experience developing Fintech applications.

-       Prior experience supervising development contractors.

-       Prior experience as a developer in a startup environment.

-       Spanish language skills.

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