Software Engineer (Tech Lead)
About the role
Tech Lead role at Kobalt Labs, an AI-native compliance platform for financial institutions. Own a major product module end-to-end, guiding technical direction, architecture, and delivery while hands-on coding and mentoring peers.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and execution of a major Kobalt product module end-to-end.
- Develop a deep understanding of the customers, workflows, and problems within your product area and use that context to shape what we build.
- Turn ambiguous product and customer problems into technical strategy, architecture, and concrete execution plans.
- Lead complex projects spanning multiple engineers, making the technical decisions and tradeoffs necessary to ship quickly without sacrificing the foundations we'll need as we scale.
- Personally design and build critical parts of the product, from backend systems and data models to customer-facing experiences.
- Set a high technical bar through architecture, code reviews, engineering practices, and mentorship of other engineers.
- Identify and address technical and product problems before they become neatly scoped projects.
- Help shape Kobalt's broader engineering architecture and culture as both our product surface area and engineering team grow.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating Staff+ level technical ownership.
- Track record of owning a substantial product or technical area end-to-end and setting its technical direction.
- Experience leading complex projects across multiple engineers and driving them from ambiguous problem through production.
- Exceptional hands-on engineering skills; you still want to spend a significant portion of your time writing and reviewing code.
- Strong product instincts and the ability to understand customer problems, make tradeoffs, and determine what should be built rather than waiting for a detailed specification.
- Comfortable operating across the stack and going wherever the hardest or highest-leverage problem requires.
- Experience as a Staff or Principal Engineer, technical lead, founding engineer, or technical founder/CTO is a plus.
Skills
Benefits
- $250k base salary + equity, with equity based on experience and scope
- Lunch provided in-office
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
- Paid time off and paid company holidays
About Kobalt Labs
AI copilot to automate risk ops for fintechs and banks
Kobalt has built an AI copilot to automate manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Given a third party contracts and documentation, Kobalt’s reasoning engine ingests internal policies and procedures, legal commitments, past privacy and compliance assessments, and syncs with external legislation to instantly auto-surface and track risks. We're helping community/regional/sponsor banks increase revenue and scale their partnership and vendor volume, and we're helping fintechs conduct their partner diligence in 1/10 the time, all without needing to increase headcount.
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