Managing Director, Tech Lead, Senior Staff Engineer

TIAA

Managing Director and Tech Lead for financial software at Brooklyn Investment Group. Overseeing technical architecture and leading integration strategies across data layers and backend services.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $300,000 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDjangoFlaskMongoDBNuxtPostgresPythonRabbitMQVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical architecture and evolution of our FastAPI and RabbitMQ based backend services
Drive the design of APIs and data contracts consumed by both our internal Vue/Nuxt advisor portal and external integrations
Lead the integration strategy across our data layer — PostgreSQL databases, MongoDB/DocumentDB, real-time market data feeds, and custodial data services
Architect and improve our AWS infrastructure
Establish and enforce engineering standards for testing, observability, incident response, and code quality
Serve as the primary technical decision-maker on the team, evaluating build-vs-buy tradeoffs, technology choices, and system design proposals
Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and architectural guidance
Collaborate directly with product, operations, and portfolio management stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into sound technical solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Demonstrated experience building and scaling client-facing financial software or SaaS platforms
Deep proficiency in Python, including async patterns, performance optimization, and large codebase stewardship
Proven track record designing and operating production REST APIs at scale (FastAPI, Flask, or Django)
Production experience with message and event driven systems (RabbitMQ, etc)
Strong expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and document stores (MongoDB)
Extensive experience with AWS (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS)
Track record of improving engineering culture — testing practices, observability, incident management, or developer experience
Strong technical communication skills: ability to write clear proposals, lead design reviews, and articulate tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

superior retirement program
highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFastAPIFlaskDjangoRabbitMQPostgreSQLMongoDBAWSECSFargate

Soft Skills

technical communicationmentoringcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingcode reviewarchitectural guidanceincident managementdesign reviewstranslating business requirements