Tech Lead (Fool.com and Motley Fool Money)

The role

You will set technical direction and maintain production health for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money. The role involves a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you will do

• Own technical direction for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money
• Write code, review PRs, and pair with the team daily
• Mentor and grow direct reports through 1:1s and technical coaching
• Own production reliability including incident response and observability
• Partner with product, design, marketing, and business leadership
• Drive AI integration in production features and software building
• Maintain and evolve engineering standards, deployment processes, and tooling
• Collaborate across business units to align technical decisions

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 2 years in a tech lead or senior+ capacity
• Fluent in Python
• Real production experience in Django
• Ability to navigate and contribute to a Next.js codebase
• Deep, practical understanding of the HTTP request/response cycle, REST API design, and web applications
• Experience with AWS services and modern observability tooling like Datadog or Sentry
• Track record of mentoring and growing engineers
• Integrated AI/LLM capabilities into production applications or building toward it

Nice to have

• Wagtail experience
• Experience leading high-traffic consumer web platforms
• Familiarity with content-driven sites and editorial workflows
• Comfort with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Modern testing approaches (Playwright or similar)

Benefits

• Flexible, remote work environment
• No vacation policy
• Generous fully-paid parental leave
• $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice
• Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity

Before you apply

• No sponsorship is available
• You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of the listed states

About the company

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company. For 30 years they've been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and Foolish fun.