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Engineering Team Lead

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Key Responsibilities

1s, give regular feedback, develop engineers along our seniority grading Be a product partner — work directly with the Product Director and stakeholders, understand customer problems,

Requirements Summary

you build agentic coding workflows, feed the right codebase context to models, and verify AI output with end-to-end testing Proficiency in both frontend and backend development

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Fuel is building the first multi-agent platform for finance, automating the work of the CFO office with AI. Founded in 2021 as a finance-as-a-service company that ran finance for businesses with over $1B in combined P&L, Fuel rebuilt itself around agents in 2026. Backed by Markus Villig (Bolt), John S. Kim (SendBird), Stratmind, and Bad Ideas.

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We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a new engineering team working on a new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance AI finance platform.

This is a player-coach role: roughly half of your time is hands-on engineering, the other half is leading — architecture, planning, hiring, and growing people. You start with a team of one senior engineer and help hire the rest. You are the technical decision-maker for this direction and are accountable for what it ships.

You'll build a new team inside R&D. You'll report to the Head of Engineering and work closely with the core product team (5 engineers, 1 QA), the Product Director, and the C-level team.

A new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance platform (details are shared during the interview process)
The architecture that lets it reuse and extend the core platform: AI finance agents, MCP infrastructure and agent orchestration, integrations with accounting platforms, banks, and payment systems (QuickBooks, Xero, Stripe), access controls, and reporting
The team itself: hiring, onboarding, engineering practices, and standards

Responsibilities

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→Lead a small engineering team as a player-coach — ~50% hands-on coding and reviews, ~50% architecture, planning, and people
→Own the architecture of the product line — make and defend design decisions, keep them aligned with the core platform, drive System Design Reviews
→Own delivery and be accountable for outcomes — plan, estimate, raise risks early, ship fast without cutting corners that matter
→Hold the quality bar — testing strategy, code review standards, observability, and incident response are your responsibility
→Hire and grow the team — take part in hiring, run 1:1s, give regular feedback, develop engineers along our seniority grading
→Be a product partner — work directly with the Product Director and stakeholders, understand customer problems, push back on scope when needed
→Set the standard for AI-native engineering — agentic coding workflows, proper codebase context, end-to-end verification — and make it the team's default
→Keep security and data integrity at the core of everything — we handle customers' financial data
→Protect the team's culture — ownership, direct communication, honest feedback

Requirements

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7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a team with real accountability for delivery
Experience building products or systems from scratch and taking them to production with a small team
Proficiency with AI-assisted development (a must) — not just chat-based usage: you build agentic coding workflows, feed the right codebase context to models, and verify AI output with end-to-end testing
Proficiency in both frontend and backend development
TypeScript, Node.js (Nest.js), React
SQL, MongoDB
AWS knowledge
Strong system design skills — you design for scale, security, and maintainability and can explain trade-offs to non-engineers
Experience hiring and mentoring engineers
Experience enhancing system and infrastructure security
B2/C1 English level
Comfortable with startup mode: shifting priorities, fast pace, high ownership

Nice to Have

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Experience with LLM APIs in production (Anthropic, OpenAI), RAG, agents, or evals
Fintech background or experience on security-focused projects
Knowledge of one of the following: Go, Python
Early-stage startup experience
Experience with infrastructure setup

CV & Cover Letter check
Soft skills interview
System Design & Experience Review
Leadership & Management interview
Culture fit interview

Why work with us?

Build a new product line from day one — architecture, team, and practices are yours to shape
Real leadership scope early — you own a direction and work directly with the Product Director and C-level
Build the future of finance work — design AI-native finance products, not just maintain them
Rapid skills improvement
Growth opportunities according to our seniority grading (it comes with a compensation increase)
Flexible schedule and time-off policy
18 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leaves