Technical Lead, Product Engineering

Chronograph; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

401(k)

Unlimited vacation

Parental leave

Brooklyn HQ

Job summary

Chronograph is seeking a seasoned Tech Lead to steer core technical direction for a cloud analytics platform serving private capital markets. You will own architectural designs, guide data models, and drive high-performance features in close collaboration with product and design teams.

You will join a driven team of engineers delivering a scalable platform used by leading private equity funds, with opportunities to mentor and grow future technical leaders while benefiting from flexible work

Qualifications

• At least 9 years of professional development experience and proven track record leading complex technical projects.
• Expertise in Typescript, Node, PostgreSQL and GraphQL, especially schema and API design.
• Fluency in frontend frameworks and patterns such as React and React Query.
• Aptitude for navigating ambiguity and designing cross-system solutions spanning data models, validations, application logic and user workflows.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with ability to drive consensus across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead technical projects from product ideation to successful execution, including architectural decisions and data structures.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to architect high-performance, user-centric features with direct client impact.
• Champion platform reliability and data integrity while maintaining development velocity and quality.
• Mentor engineers across levels and grow future technical leaders within the team.
• Identify and promote new technologies and best practices to improve developer velocity and platform health.

Skills

Typescript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

React

React Query

Leadership

Communication

Job description

Chronograph was founded to bring next-generation technology to private capital markets. Through our suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, we help many of the world's largest and most sophisticated venture capital, private equity, and credit funds understand their investment performance in unprecedented detail, with over 258,000 private companies and 15,000 private capital funds monitored via our solution suite.

At Chronograph, we get to go "behind the scenes" and work directly with investors who are driving some of the most impactful changes across high growth start-ups, global infrastructure and renewable energy, growth equity, and all other private capital strategies. The firm is backed by Sixth Street Growth, Summit Partners, Carlyle AlpInvest, and Nasdaq Inc., and has seen continuous rapid growth since its founding in 2016. Our client base today includes hundreds of investors and asset managers monitoring more than $5.9 trillion in invested capital with 8 of the 10 largest GPs and 5 of the 10 largest LPs using Chronograph.

The Opportunity

As a key member of our team, you will lead and deliver projects from concept to production; driving core technical direction while working closely with key stakeholders. Our engineering teams collaborate daily with product managers and designers to build exceptional software. An ideal candidate for this role will have both sharp technical skills and a keen product sensibility.

You’ll join a highly-driven team of engineers, contributing both as a technical leader and a hands-on full-stack developer. Our platform handles critical financial data, offering extensive workflow and data analysis tools along with an innovative data ingestion platform. This is an opportunity to make a real-world impact: you will tackle challenging technical problems and contribute to a platform relied upon by leaders in the private equity space.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a driven, detail-oriented top performer to become directly engaged with several of the world’s most sophisticated private equity investors and produce an immediate impact within a globally-focused financial technology firm.

As a Tech Lead at Chronograph, you will:

• Own and lead technical projects from product ideation to successful execution, including: technical decisions, architectural designs, data structures, and development approach
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to architect high-performance and user-centric features to drive direct client impact among leaders in the private equity space
• Champion platform reliability and data integrity while maintaining development velocity, making thoughtful decisions that advance both technical quality and product outcomes
• Mentor and provide guidance to engineers across all levels, with opportunities to grow into direct people management, fostering a culture of continuous learning and developing future technical leaders
• Identify new technologies and best practices to promote a culture of continuous improvement

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• At least 9 years of professional development experience, with a proven track record of leading complex technical projects
• Expertise in Typescript, Node, PostgreSQL and GraphQL, in particular schema and API design
• Fluency in frontend frameworks and patterns such as React and React Query
• Aptitude for navigating ambiguity and designing solutions that account for cross-system implications—spanning data models, validations, application logic and user workflows
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to drive consensus across stakeholders and distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
• A track record of balancing technical solutions with business outcomes, making thoughtful tradeoffs that serve both immediate needs and long-term platform health
• Nice-to-haves:
• Experience building AI-integrated product features or MCP servers
• Background in building computation-heavy services where accuracy and performance are imperative
• Experience expanding complex data models to fit evolving application use cases
• Passionate about emerging tools that improve developer velocity, including AI-assisted coding

Why Join Chronograph?

We value creativity, open communication, cutting edge technology, striving for excellence in all things – and having fun along the way. We want you to be happy here for the long-term.

We offer:

• Flexible work arrangements (including remote / in person / hybrid)
• 401(k)
• Unlimited and flexible vacation
• Company-wide team events at our Brooklyn, NY headquarters three times a year for all employees
• Fully-paid parental leave
• ...and more!

Chronograph is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a team player who wants to have an outsized impact in a dynamic and diverse environment, we’d love to hear from you!