Engineering Lead, Financial Systems

The role

You will own Monk's Financial Systems end-to-end, including technical direction, architecture, and delivery. You will lead a team of engineers to build and operate systems connecting to ERPs, accounting platforms, and payment providers.

What you will do

• Build and operate systems that connect to ERPs, accounting platforms, banking data, payment providers, files, and APIs
• Serve enterprise customers processing billions in revenue
• Lead design and execution of complex projects including architecture, implementation, and rollout
• Lead a small pod of engineers by setting priorities, reviewing code, and mentoring
• Build software factories using autonomous agents and tooling
• Work directly with customers, GTM, and founders to build and upgrade financial systems

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production backend systems
• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Experience building APIs, data processing pipelines, and event-driven systems
• Strong experience in Postgres, AWS, data pipelines, and observability
• Comfortable with agentic workflows, AI tooling, and orchestration systems
• AI-native, daily use of coding agents as primary development driver

Nice to have

• Experience with fintech or payments data systems
• Built backend infrastructure for LLM or agent products
• Were a founding or early backend hire

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Medical/dental/vision
• Flexible paid time off
• Dinner stipend
• Beautiful office in Flatiron, New York

About the company

Monk is an AI-native accounts receivable (AR) platform for B2B companies helping businesses get paid fast. The company is rebuilding the AR stack with AI, speed, and craftsmanship.