Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SafeStay is building an insurance company for the short-term rental industry. The Technical Lead, Founding Engineer will establish the technical vision, build core systems for partner activity, billing, reconciliation, and claims handling, and hire and lead the engineering team. This player-coach will remain hands-on while setting engineering practices and partnering cross-functionally to build a scalable platform.
Responsibilities
- Build the team. Hire, onboard and lead a high-performing team of engineers, and set the bar for talent, culture and technical excellence
- Set technical direction. Own architecture and technical strategy across ingestion, the system of record, reconciliation and invoicing, and the claims portal
- Ship as a player-coach. Stay hands-on in the codebase, especially in the early months, while growing the team's ability to deliver without you in the critical path
- Guard data integrity. Treat billing and claims data with the rigor of a financial system. Correctness, auditability and reconciliation are non-negotiable
- Partner cross-functionally. Work closely with product, operations, finance and partner-facing teams to translate business needs into reliable systems
- Establish the foundations. Set engineering practices, on-call, quality standards, and the roadmap for a durable, scalable platform
Skills
- Seven or more years of full-stack software engineering experience
- Two or more years managing or formally leading engineering teams
- A track record of building and scaling backend systems and APIs, ideally financial, billing or transactional systems where correctness matters
- Experience integrating with third-party partner systems and building bi-directional sync
- Experience in modern tech stacks and architectures
- An AI-forward engineering leader: a technical leader who builds with AI daily
- Proven ability to hire, grow and lead engineering teams, with a genuine appetite for both leadership and code
- Strong data modeling instincts and comfort with reconciliation, audit trails and systems of record
- Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills
- This role is remote to start, based in the United States, with the potential to become a hybrid position (Austin, NYC, Nashville, and Atlanta under consideration)
- Experience taking a product, platform or a new business line from 0 to 1
- Experience in the insurance or fintech spaces
- Familiarity with billing, invoicing or reconciliation platforms
- Background operating in an early-stage or new-business-line environment inside a larger company
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote to start, based in the United States
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