
Investing Tech Team Lead
The Motley Fool
- Location
- United States of America
- Posted
Lead investing microservices team at The Motley Fool, innovating fintech solutions with Python-based frameworks, performance optimization, and high-performance teams.
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The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool is seeking a leader to helm their investing microservices team, responsible for powering investment decisions for millions. The role involves innovating at the intersection of fintech and software engineering, creating solutions that help investors make smarter decisions. As a key member of the team, you will lead the development and execution of critical systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive professional development opportunities for team members. With a focus on performance optimization, system monitoring, and high-performance teams, this role is ideal for experienced engineers looking to make an impact in the financial technology space. The Motley Fool is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity, and offers flexible remote work options, $4,000/year travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company. If you are passionate about building scalable financial systems and leading teams to excellence, this role may be the perfect fit for you.
We are The Motley Fool, a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with nearly 30 years of experience focused on making the world smarter, happier, and richer. But what does that even mean?! It means we’re helping Fools (always with a capital “F”) demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through our products and services.
The Motley Fool is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. We are a motley group of overachievers that have built a culture of trust founded on Foolishness, fun, and a commitment to making the world smarter, happier and richer. However you identify or whatever winding road has led you to us, please don't hesitate to apply if the description above leaves you thinking, 'Hey! I could do that!'
Ready to lead a dynamic engineering team that powers investment decisions for millions? This role puts you at the helm of The Motley Fool's investing microservices, where you'll orchestrate systems that handle everything from real-time market data to cutting-edge crypto analytics.
This role involves innovating at the intersection of fintech and software engineering, creating solutions that help investors make smarter decisions. You'll be working with cutting-edge technologies while ensuring performance and reliability for mission-critical financial data.
If you're passionate about building scalable financial systems and leading teams to excellence, this role puts you at the forefront of investment technology innovation at one of the most respected names in financial media.
What would you do in this role?
Lead the development and execution of Motley Fool’s investing microservices, ensuring alignment with business objectives
Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including:
US and international market data
Portfolio holdings and returns
Corporate actions
Company fundamentals
Crypto, Options, and IPOs
Automated aggregation of subscriber portfolios across brokerages
Responsible for in-house systems that manage trading compliance and holdings disclosures
Integrate with a variety of third party providers and tools
Ensure calculations are accurate with automated tests to validate
Ensure critical data is fresh and highly available with failover capabilities
Collaborate with the team’s product owner and project manager to set the team up for success with shovel ready work that has the value and acceptance criteria clearly defined
Conduct regular 1:1s with direct reports
Regularly review code, contributions, and delivery flow to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
Drive professional development and career growth opportunities for team members
Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch subscriber-facing solutions
Find ways to leverage AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to assist the team (e.g. architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, automated tests)
Must haves:
5+ years of experience building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining apis consumed by multiple systems using a Python-based framework like Django, FastApi, or Flask
Proficient with performance optimization (async processing, caching, queuing, and query optimization)
Experienced with system monitoring and telemetry
Experienced working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL
Skilled at developing full-stack web applications
Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions
Proven track record in high-performance teams, where cross-functional collaboration is valued
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Knowledge of investing and/or finance
Nice to haves:
Architecting and developing stock investing microservices
Experience with NextJs, React, Javascript
Experience with portfolio aggregation services like Plaid
Experience with Docker and containerization, as well as CI/CD pipelines
Prior management and leadership experience