ZR_2802_JOB

Zohorecruit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead – on site in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, is a hands‑on leadership role. You will architect, set standards, and drive secure, scalable product delivery in a fintech environment with real‑money movement and compliance requirements.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design/ops, and work directly with the founders as the team scales. Prior mobile/web full‑stack and startup experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web applications with full‑stack exposure.
• Experience at banking/credit card/crypto/remittances/lending startups.
• Demonstrated experience managing technical teams, architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers.
• Strong knowledge of React/TypeScript, Python, Go/Rust, Postgres, AWS and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, set engineering standards, and lead delivery of a secure, scalable product.
• Collaborate across product, design, and operations; grow and mentor the team.
• Work directly with the founders; potential expansion to broader engineering leadership.

Job description

Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead – on site

San Francisco - Bay Area, United States | Posted on 01/12/2026

Job Title: Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead – on site

Location:

SF/Bay Area, California working at an upstart company in Fintech/Financial App for emerging markets.

The Role

A Technical Lead on our team is a hands-on leadership role for candidates with breadth across multiple layers of our stack and the judgment to drive technical outcomes. We are building:

• An iOS app (Swift)
  

If you bring a mix of these skill sets and can guide others to deliver high-quality software, this role may be a strong fit. Please also review our Senior Android/iOS/Frontend/Backend roles for deeper, discipline-specific details.

As an early engineering leader, you will define our architecture, set engineering standards, and lead the delivery of a performant, reliable, and secure product from the ground up. The problem space includes financial services with real-money movement at international scale and non-trivial compliance, integrity, and latency constraints. You will collaborate across product, design, and operations, and help grow and mentor the team. You will work directly with the founders. This role may expand to broader engineering leadership across platforms as we scale.

Interview Stages

4

MUST HAVE SKILLS

Requirements

- Experience at banking/credit card/crypto/remittances/lending startups

- Experience dealing with the nitty-gritty of Anti-Fraud, AML, Ledgering, Payments Orchestration

- 7-10 years building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web applications with meaningful full‑stack exposure (e.g., React/TypeScript, Python, Go/Rust, Postgres, AWS, modern CI/CD).

- Demonstrated experience managing technical teams, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.

You might be an especially good fit if you have:

- Experience building for the Latin American market

- Experience in financial technology

- Strong systems-thinking and design sense

Requirements

First candidate was very competent enterprise engineering leader, but client is looking for someone super hands-on, brings some mobile exposure, and someone who has start up experience is what they want. NOT someone who has been high up in management at an enterprise corporation, which is a big mismatch with this client