Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead in SF - Visa Sponsorship

remotestar-team; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 136,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client is a well-funded San Francisco team building next-generation consumer finance infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role spans backend, web, mobile, infra, security, and architecture.

You will work directly with the founders, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers to deliver a secure product handling real-money movement at scale. You should have 7–10 years shipping consumer-facing apps, strong system design, PostgreSQL mastery, and experience with AWS, containers, CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web products.
• Strong system design and architecture experience across APIs, distributed systems, databases, scalability, and reliability.
• Hands-on technical leadership: architecture reviews, decision-making, mentoring, code reviews, and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve system architecture across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and data.
• Lead delivery of a secure, reliable product handling real-money movement at international scale.
• Mentor engineers, review technical decisions, and help grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Partner with Product, Design, Operations, and founders to translate product goals into technical execution.
• Own outcomes across multiple layers of the stack, not limited to frontend or backend.

Skills

Full-stack development

Technical leadership

System design

PostgreSQL

Python

React

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

Python

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Job description

Our client is a well-funded San Francisco team building next-generation consumer finance infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role spans backend, web, mobile, infra, security, and architecture.

You will work directly with the founders, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers to deliver a secure product handling real-money movement at scale. You should have 7–10 years shipping consumer-facing apps, strong system design, PostgreSQL mastery, and experience with AWS, containers, CI/CD.