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 billing and claims systems, and hire and lead the engineering team while remaining hands-on in the codebase.
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
Company Overview