Technical Engineering Lead

The role

The Technical Engineering Lead will drive the design, delivery, and quality of the Condor financial intelligence platform. This hands-on leadership role involves owning platform architecture, solving ambiguous technical problems, and guiding a small team of engineers.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and implementation of major parts of the platform
• Solve hard and ambiguous technical problems
• Write production code and review designs and PRs
• Make and document architectural tradeoffs
• Partner with product managers to shape requirements and technical plans
• Break down complex initiatives and drive delivery to production
• Establish engineering practices for planning, execution, testing, and incident response
• Set technical direction and mentor a small team of engineers
• Contribute to hiring and building the engineering team
• Communicate technical work to engineers, product, and leadership

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• Track record of building and shipping production-grade systems as a hands-on senior or staff/principal-level engineer
• Demonstrated technical leadership in design and delivery of complex projects
• Deep expertise in backend systems and architecture
• Experience owning delivery from ambiguous requirements to production
• Experience guiding, mentoring, or leading other engineers
• Excellent communication skills
• A bias for action
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks (Django, Flask, or similar)
• Familiarity with React and full-stack delivery
• Experience building AI-native or data-intensive platforms, including LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, or large-scale data infrastructure
• Experience in regulated, high-correctness, or financial data domains
• Experience contributing to hiring and helping scale an engineering team
• Experience working in a high-growth, Series A–C startup environment

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
• 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with a 3% company match that vests immediately
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Condor is a high-growth Series A company building a pharma-native, AI-driven financial intelligence layer for clinical development. The platform connects clinical operations, vendor activity, and financial signals into a single real-time intelligence layer.