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Tech Lead, Finance & Supply Chain Engineering

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onsite senior Full time $230K - $385K San Francisco

First indexed 12 Jul 2026

Description

Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $230K – $385K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

About the Team

The Finance & Supply Chain Engineering organization includes two complementary teams: Software Engineering and Data Engineering. Software Engineering builds internal full-stack applications, durable agentic workflows, plugins, MCPs, and measurable AI-enabled engineering practices. Data Engineering builds trusted analytics data assets for Finance and Supply Chain.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader who will report alongside the Software Engineering and Data Engineering managers. This is an individual-contributor role with no immediate people-management responsibility. The Tech Lead will raise the technical bar across both teams, participate in important cross-team or high-risk design decisions, and directly own and ship high-impact work.

In this role, you will:

  • Partner with the Software Engineering and Data Engineering managers as a peer technical leader
  • Directly own the architecture, implementation, launch, and operation of one or more high-impact initiatives
  • Guide important design decisions that are cross-team, difficult to reverse, or material to security, financial controls, reliability, data quality, or long-term cost of ownership
  • Establish pragmatic engineering standards across architecture, APIs and data contracts, testing, security, reliability, observability, lineage, data quality, and operational ownership
  • Advance engineering standards for building with AI, including agentic workflows, evaluation, telemetry, adoption, and outcome measurement
  • Work across backend, full-stack, data, and big-data systems, making sound boundary decisions and bringing the right domain experts into the design
  • Partner deeply with Engineering, Applications, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, Security, and other stakeholders to translate ambiguous needs into durable technical systems
  • Raise the technical capability of both teams through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, written guidance, and reusable reference implementations
  • Protect team autonomy: focus involvement on consequential decisions, clarify principles and tradeoffs, and avoid becoming a required approver for routine or reversible work

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have significant professional engineering experience with sustained staff-level or equivalent impact as an individual contributor
  • Can reason across a full-stack application,from user experience and client architecture through backend services, integrations, authorization, and durable state
  • Have strong data-engineering judgment across analytical modeling, batch or streaming pipelines, orchestration, lineage, quality, scale, and downstream data contracts
  • Have personally designed, built, shipped, and operated consequential systems, and can go from architecture to implementation details without relying on positional authority
  • Have led important technical decisions and cross-team initiatives through influence, clear reasoning, and trusted partnership
  • Care deeply about correctness, security, data quality, auditability, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes
  • Communicate clearly with engineers, managers, and non-technical partners; lead with context and principles rather than control

Nice to Have:

  • Experience building internal products, developer platforms, workflow systems, or analytics platforms used across multiple teams
  • Experience with LLM applications, durable agents, AI evaluations, plugins, MCPs, or measurement of AI-enabled engineering outcomes
  • Experience in Finance, Supply Chain, accounting, procurement, ERP, or another domain where controls, reconciliation, and traceability matter
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