Technical Lead, Platform Engineering — Remote-First Ownership

Receipts Depositary Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Dental and vision coverage

401K with company matching

Equity compensation

Remote-first work environment

Job summary

Receipts Depositary Corporation in the United States seeks a Technical Lead for Platform Engineering. You will be the sole in-house engineer, own architecture, and direct offshore engineers while delivering the September 2026 upgrade.

This hands-on yet strategic role requires cloud, security, and fintech domain experience, with ownership through a greenfield project and potential growth into Head of Engineering as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior engineer or technical lead capacity.
• Backend-leaning full-stack profile: strong in at least two of Python, Node.js, Java - with enough Angular to direct and review frontend work.
• Capital markets/securities services, fintech, or financial infrastructure experience: transfer agents, custodians, securities settlement, or equivalent financial API integrations.
• Demonstrated experience directing offshore or remote engineering teams: owning delivery quality and timeline, not just collaborating.
• Workflow orchestration experience: comfort designing and extending state-machine or workflow systems in production.
• Azure Cloud infrastructure experience: compute, secrets management, API gateways, managed databases.

Responsibilities

• Direct offshore engineers across Node.js, Python, and Angular: setting sprint priorities, reviewing all PRs, and owning delivery quality and pace to the September 21st launch date.
• Own all architecture decisions: database schema, service design, API contracts, and the security model for a platform processing DTC-settled institutional securities transactions.
• Be the technical interface to external counterparties: transfer agent, custodians, and market data providers and lead integration kickoffs.
• Maintain the Azure infrastructure including Key Vault, API Management, and the staging-to-production migration before go-live.
• Translate engineering status and technical decisions into strategic business oriented outcomes for the leadership team.
• Lead UAT: writing test scenarios, validating acceptance criteria, and signing off on go-live readiness.

Skills

Python

Node.js

Java

Angular

Azure Cloud

Offshore leadership

Workflow orchestration

Capital markets

LoopBack 4

Tools

LoopBack 4

Job description

Receipts Depositary Corporation in the United States seeks a Technical Lead for Platform Engineering. You will be the sole in-house engineer, own architecture, and direct offshore engineers while delivering the September 2026 upgrade.

This hands-on yet strategic role requires cloud, security, and fintech domain experience, with ownership through a greenfield project and potential growth into Head of Engineering as the company scales.