Team Leader, Account Linking

Rocket Money•Washington, DC

5d•$150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Rocket Money is seeking a technically engaged, empathetic engineering leader for its Account Linking team. The team builds and maintains integrations that give members reliable access to accurate, current financial account balances, transactions, and other data. Its platform provides foundational data that helps members understand and manage their finances. The Team Leader will lead a small team, represent Account Linking across the organization, guide technical direction, and build partnerships with engineering, product, and operations. The role focuses on reliable integrations and high-quality data, delivery of the team roadmap, technical engagement in engineering work, and coaching and developing engineers.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience shipping production systems.
At least 1 year of experience leading an engineering team.
Track record of leading senior individual contributors.
Experience supporting external integrations and driving operational excellence on platform teams.
Experience supporting large data sets in production and using observability and root-cause analysis to improve reliability and data quality.
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into achievable plans, communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly, and partner with Product to focus on meaningful results.
Strong organization, attention to detail, follow-through, and communication with technical and nontechnical partners.

Nice To Haves

Experience with some combination of Node/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Postgres or a similar relational database.
Experience with FinTech or consumer apps.

Responsibilities

Advocate for Account Linking and build strong working relationships with engineering leaders, product managers, and operations team members.
Drive collaboration, communicate the team's capabilities and constraints, and help other teams use financial account data effectively.
Guide architectural decisions and identify investments that expand capabilities while keeping the platform scalable and maintainable.
Define measures of account connection health and financial data completeness, accuracy, and freshness.
Improve monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues and increase trust in financial data.
Own delivery of team commitments and execute a quarterly roadmap balancing new capabilities, reliability, and long-term system health.
Make decisions, remove blockers, communicate progress and risks, and work with Product to adjust priorities when needed.
Stay technically engaged through RFCs, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving; help engineers evaluate tradeoffs and unblock implementation.
Explore agentic software development and help the team adopt practices that improve delivery quality and pace.
Coach engineers, provide actionable feedback, hold regular 1:1s, and deliver performance reviews.
Create individualized growth plans and opportunities for engineers to pursue their strengths and ambitions.