Team Leader, Engineering - Account Linking

Rocket Money•San Francisco, WA

About The Position

Rocket Money is hiring a technically engaged, empathetic engineering leader for its Account Linking team. The team builds and maintains integrations that connect members’ financial accounts and provide reliable access to accurate, up-to-date balances, transactions, and other financial data. Its platform is foundational to helping members understand and manage their finances. The Team Leader will lead a small team, represent Account Linking across the company, shape technical direction, and build strong partnerships with engineering, Product, and Operations. The role balances new capabilities with platform reliability and long-term system health. It also involves supporting engineers’ growth, staying technically engaged, and exploring agentic software development practices that can improve delivery quality and pace.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience shipping production systems.
At least 1 year of experience leading an engineering team.
A 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 guide technical decisions while empowering engineers to own implementation.
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into achievable plans, communicate risks and tradeoffs, and partner with Product to focus on meaningful outcomes.
Strong attention to detail, organization, 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 in FinTech or consumer apps.

Responsibilities

Lead a small engineering team with a direct impact on the business.
Represent and advocate for Account Linking, building relationships with engineering leaders, Product, and Operations.
Communicate team capabilities and constraints and help other teams use financial account data effectively.
Guide architectural decisions, identify technical investments, and establish how systems should evolve to remain scalable and maintainable.
Define measures for account-connection health and financial data completeness, accuracy, and freshness.
Improve monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues and improve trust in financial data.
Own delivery of team commitments and drive execution of a quarterly roadmap balancing capabilities, reliability, and long-term system health.
Make decisions, clear 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 develop.