Remote Engineering Lead - Financial Connections

Rocket; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Matching 401k

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Rocket Money is seeking a Team Leader, Engineering for Financial Connections. You’ll guide a small, impact-focused team that owns account linking, data reliability, and scalable architecture.

You’ll partner with product managers, other engineering leaders, and operations to deliver reliable financial data experiences to millions of users. You’ll drive engineering excellence with hands-on leadership, RFCs, code reviews, and coaching to grow engineers while balancing new features with system

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping production systems, ideally with Node/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Postgres.
• Experience leading an engineering team for at least 1 year.
• Strong empathy, curiosity, and ability to tailor leadership to each engineer.

Responsibilities

• Be the face of Account Linking and foster strong relationships with other leaders, PMs, and ops.
• Set the technical direction and guide architectural decisions for scalable systems.
• Champion reliability, data quality, monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Drive delivery by owning quarterly roadmaps and clearing blockers.
• Stay technical through RFCs, code reviews, and collaborative problem solving.
• Coach and grow the team with regular 1:1s and growth plans.

Skills

Engineering leadership

8+ years experience

Node/TypeScript

React

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Rocket Money is seeking a Team Leader, Engineering for Financial Connections. You’ll guide a small, impact-focused team that owns account linking, data reliability, and scalable architecture.

You’ll partner with product managers, other engineering leaders, and operations to deliver reliable financial data experiences to millions of users. You’ll drive engineering excellence with hands-on leadership, RFCs, code reviews, and coaching to grow engineers while balancing new features with system