Tech Lead, M&A Platform

American Operator•Austin, TX

4d•$150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

American Operator is hiring for a Tech Lead to own our AI-powered M&A platform. This role, done well, will allow us to keep building unfair leverage for our team in identifying, prospecting, diligencing and closing acquisitions. The ideal person has experience designing and building data-intensive applications, prides themselves on needing minimal product oversight, and takes an aggressive approach to rapidly iterating toward success with business users (vs. delivering overly complex or academic solutions). The ideal candidate is obsessed with solving problems and delivering results, not with building the most complicated in-house solution. The majority of your time will be building on the systems that power our acquisition engine - from web-crawling and entity resolution to AI-powered workflows and tools for our business development and investments teams. This position will report to the CEO.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field
8+ years of software and/or data engineering experience, with demonstrated depth in GTM-oriented work.
Strong product intuition and the ability to translate business workflows into well-architected technical solutions.
Bias towards rapid iteration and using third-party tools where possible. You care more about delivering results than writing code.
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Familiar with web crawling, enrichment, and entity resolution best practices.
Previously founded or joined an early stage company
Past experience at a Fin-Tech or financial company - you’re familiar with key terminology and concepts associated with lending, investing or banking
Past work focused on small business segment

Responsibilities

Partner deeply with cross-functional teams to understand constraints, challenges and opportunities associated with our M&A process.
Leverage software, data and artificial intelligence to maximize the quality and number of businesses we can acquire per FTE.
Own our M&A platform end-to-end, responsible for roadmap, implementation and ongoing support / enablement.
Improve and own the system architecture, including data ingestion, entity resolution, enrichment, scoring models, and storage.
Identify, prototype and deploy internal tools and workflows that allow our team to spend more time meeting with prospective sellers and less time analyzing data or drafting memos.
Build integrations and automations via APIs, webhooks, and tools like Zapier/Make to keep data clean and business systems in sync.