Technical Lead Developer (Owner)

Full-time Remote or Raleigh, NC Apply Now About Atticus Atticus is the first and only mobile app designed for probate and estate settlement, combining powerful technology with intuitive user experiences to save time and money, as families and their advisors navigate the probate, estate settlement and inheritance process together with confidence and peace of mind. Without Atticus, the typical family spends an average of 513 hours and $14,225 over the course of 12+ months working to interpret one’s estate planning wishes, close financial accounts, manage the distribution of inheritance assets and coordinate ongoing communication across family members— usually with as many as 15 advisors involved. At Atticus, we’re democratizing probate, estate settlement & inheritance by making it affordable, accessible, and simple by taking a technology-first approach towards building clean software to automate archaic & manually-intensive financial/legal processes. While it’s not everyday you or I lose a loved one, everyday ~150k families do…. and their whole lives are changed. About The Role As a technical lead engineer you will lead & own architecture and development decisions across our institutional and consumer product(s). You’ll work directly with the founding product & dev teams to bring life into exciting new consumer-facing ideas, products, platforms, features, API enhancements and architectural infrastructure. We have an incredibly talented and well-oiled working team with prior experience building and launching products together at scale for companies like TurboTax, ServiceNow and Allbirds. This role is best fit for a senior lead, peer-described code ninja who pushes back on unnecessary meetings, dodges corporate bloat and loves pumping out new code alongside a tight working team of senior-level talent. In This Role, You Will Spend roughly 80-95% hands-on codingDefine, articulate, and execute the strategy and roadmap for product adoptionCollaborate among founding engineering, design, domain, and customer-facing teamsHelp resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production and post-release patches Deeply understand customer needs by spending time with the product team, customers and sales and observing patterns across feedback and the marketDefine and execute against product KPI’s, communicating progress weeklyDrive the product development lifecycle for card featuresEngage on product requirements that clearly articulate the problem, it’s impact, and what we can do to solve it Understand market alternatives & platform's capabilities to validate our direction or to make changes accordinglyPartner with internal teams to document and communicate the capabilities of our products internally and externally Qualifications You are a senior full stack developer who can deliver stories, participate in scrum & sprint planning, prioritize and build features around user experiences, fix bugs, and participate in design discussions. You enjoy taking on challenges and solving problems while learning new things. You think about your code in terms of scalability with consideration for future maintainability. You have experience working in multi-disciplinary product teams, working alongside other developers, designers and product owners; ideally, this would be in the form of building other digital product(s) at scale. You’re open to sharing knowledge and improving our standards and team processes, be it through pair programming, code reviews, or other methods. You enjoy mentoring others on your team and succeeding together. Even though we are a fully remote team, much of our dev team is either located in San Diego, CA or the Raleigh, NC. All interviews will be conducted remotely. You Have Experience With Front-end JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue, AngularTypeScript, ES6Relational & graph database designs (we use MySQL)Creating REST end-pointsStyle framework like Material-UI, bootstrap, etc.Automated testing using Jest, Mocha, Storybook, Jasmine, and/or CypressProficient working across AWS suiteDeveloping, maintaining and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applicationsSocial, mobile, cloud/SaaS, big data, & analytics Stack PHP, Laravel, Vue, Bootstrap, MySQLNode.js, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, React, Redux, TypeScript, Material-UI, AWS ‍ Bonus Points For Interest Or Experience With Experience working for a startup (pre-Series A/B stage)Navigating or maintaining compliance audits like SOC 2 (Type II) or ISO 027001Designing complex platform knowledge enginesMaintaining large, functional data setsForm filling, population & custom annotationArtificial Intelligence/Machine LearningBlockchain & Smart ContractsExperience working across fintech, insuretech, or legaltech industry Other Benefits Include 100% remote. We make remote-work, work.Flexible PTOEligible for employee stock options & equity grants About Us Atticus is a fintech company committed to empowering families through the process of bringing a close to the financial life of a loved one. It’s groundbreaking probate & estate settlement product is a comprehensive, all-in-one platform that combines personalized guidance with intuitive, easy-to-use tools allowing families and their advisors to save time and money by navigating the estate settlement and inheritance process together. Atticus is available nationally across the United States and Canada, and is backed by a passionate team of industry experts including tax, legal, financial and fiduciary professionals. We’re a hard-working, fun-having team of ~15+ and growing quickly. We’d love to have you join us! To learn more about how Atticus is reimagining the way families navigate legacy, visit our site or follow us on LinkedIn.