Amount provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, Amount delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, Amount enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Amount’s clients include financial institutions collectively managing over $3.1T in assets and serving more than 50 million U.S. consumers. Learn more at www.amount.com.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
As an Engineering Team Lead with full-stack experience, you’ll start your day aligning with designers, engineers, and product managers to set goals and clarify priorities. You’ll be hands-on in both front-end and back-end development, building responsive, high-quality user experiences with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, while also driving back-end integrations and services using Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies.
Throughout the day, you’ll guide a team of engineers, ensuring strong collaboration, clear communication across the stack, and technical excellence. You’ll troubleshoot complex issues, make architectural decisions, and help the team deliver performant, scalable fintech solutions.
By day’s end, you’ll review pull requests, mentor teammates, and refine sprint goals, balancing leadership responsibilities with writing code and shaping the technical direction of the team.
Team: Lead and collaborate with a group of 5+ engineers
Similar job titles: Engineering Team Lead, Tech Lead, Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Salary: $150,000 – $170,000
Bonus: Amount employees are eligible for annual performance bonuses as part of our commitment to shared success!
Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!
WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:
- Lead a team of engineers, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and technical growth
- Write clean, maintainable, and scalable full-stack code that meets performance, reliability, and security standards
- Translate business requirements into intuitive front-end experiences and robust back-end services
- Improve application performance, scalability, and maintainability across the stack
- Drive integration between React front-end applications and Java/Spring Boot back-end systems
- Conduct code reviews, set technical direction, and promote a culture of continuous improvement
- Partner closely with product and design teams to align technical execution with user needs and business goals
- Stay current with emerging tools and frameworks to ensure we leverage the best solutions in fintech engineering
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:
- 8+ years of software development experience, with strong front-end expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and state management libraries (e.g., Redux, React Query)
- Deep hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, you’ve built and maintained RESTful APIs or microservices, and are comfortable working in the back-end when needed
- Experience integrating front-end applications with scalable, service-based architectures
- Familiarity with event-driven systems (ActiveMQ, Temporal) and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Experience leading engineering teams or serving as a tech lead — mentoring, reviewing code, and influencing technical strategy
- Strong understanding of performance tuning, accessibility, and modern UI/UX best practices
- Comfortable in agile environments with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git
TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH:
ReactJs, Java, Springboot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git
Social Media: LinkedIn, Builtin, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
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