Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead in SF | Visa Sponsorship

Remotestar; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

In-office in San Francisco

Job summary

Remotestar in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead to own architecture and delivery across backend, web, and mobile. You will work directly with founders, set engineering standards, and mentor a growing team while shipping a secure platform handling real-money movement at scale.

The role demands 7–10 years of experience in consumer-facing products, strong system design skills, and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience building consumer-facing web/mobile products.
• Strong system design and architecture experience across APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on technical leadership with mentoring and code reviews.
• Experience delivering secure, scalable financial-grade software is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve system architecture across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and data.
• Build and ship a high-quality consumer financial product from the ground up.
• Make technical trade-offs around scalability, latency, reliability, compliance, data integrity, and security.
• Set engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production reliability.
• Mentor engineers, review technical decisions, and grow a high-performing team.
• Partner with Product, Design, Operations, and founders to translate goals into execution.
• Own outcomes across multiple layers of the stack, not just frontend or backend.

Skills

Full-stack development

Leadership

System design

API design

Tools

Python

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Remotestar in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead to own architecture and delivery across backend, web, and mobile. You will work directly with founders, set engineering standards, and mentor a growing team while shipping a secure platform handling real-money movement at scale.

The role demands 7–10 years of experience in consumer-facing products, strong system design skills, and hands-on leadership.