Breeze
Staff Engineer - Tech Lead
New York City · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 39 days ago
Code ReviewLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space?
- If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to talk to you.
- You'll work alongside a growing team of engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, helping unblock complex challenges, and driving sound engineering decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship high-quality software across Breeze's products and platform.
- Act as the technical point of contact for the US engineering team, helping drive execution and technical decision-making.
- Help unblock engineers by providing guidance on architecture, implementation, debugging, and system design challenges.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead technical design discussions and help evaluate trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentor and support junior engineers through pairing, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive engineering best practices across testing, observability, reliability, and software development workflows.
- Collaborate closely with global engineering teams to ensure alignment and consistency across projects.
- Take ownership of complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
Requirements
- Proven ability to guide technical decisions and influence engineering outcomes without formal management authority.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-moving startup environments.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience mentoring and supporting early-career engineers.
- Experience working in startup or high-growth environments.
- Experience working across distributed engineering organizations.
- Fast-paced and dynamic - We move quickly and adapt as the business evolves.
- Highly collaborative - Engineering, Product, Operations, Compliance, and GTM teams work closely together.
- Opportunity to have significant technical impact at a rapidly growing company backed by Sequoia Capital
Compensation
- Annual company retreat
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- Flexible benefits including medical allowance, productivity allowance, and wellness reimbursement
Company info
- What We're Looking For
- We're looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic startup, backed by Sequoia Capital.
- We are hiring a Tech Lead!
This listing is sourced directly from Breeze's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.