Software Engineering Tech Lead

Join Tipalti's Procurement group as an Engineering Tech Lead, where you'll play a hands-on role in launching an exciting new product. With plans to grow our customer base tenfold next year, you'll have the opportunity to shape the technical direction and address complex challenges related to scalability, performance, and maintaining a clean, efficient architecture.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, architects, and stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality, customer-focused solutions.

Why join Tipalti?
Tipalti is one of the world's fastest-growing fintech companies. We free finance professionals to lead by modernizing the entire payables operation. We are a well-funded, late-stage start-up backed by high-profile investors. Our 2021 Series F funding round raised $270 million, valuing us at over $8.3 billion. With total funding of just over $550 million, and with more than 5000 global customers, Tipalti is one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world.

At Tipalti, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do, and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits, a flexible workplace, career coaching, and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together.

Founded in Israel in 2010, Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv, Plano, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam and Tbilisi.

In This Role, You Will Be Responsible For

• Lead the design and technical development of full-stack features, with a focus on backend development (Javascript/Typescript) and front-end (React).
• Build and own new features in our core product, driving real impact and ensuring deliverables are completed from planning through to production.
• Ensure the production of high-quality code that is readable, testable, and maintainable.
• Design scalable and efficient software components that perform smoothly under load.
• Proactively raise potential issues and propose solutions to both technical and business challenges.
• Identify areas that can benefit from re-architecture to support future scalability and proactively drive the necessary improvements.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to developers, helping them grow their skills in coding, testing strategies, and best practices to foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

About You

• Passionate about software architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience working with microservice architecture & distributed systems.
• Experience in server-side development using
• Experience working with databases (SQL, MongoDB) & messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Demonstrated leadership in driving technical initiatives and improvements.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively share knowledge and collaborate across teams.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for your team's technical direction and operational efficiency.

Our tech teams are the engine behind our business. Tipalti's tech ecosystem is extremely rich and we continually add new features to our products, ensuring that we respond to our clients' needs at scale. Our tech teams retain a fast-paced, start-up vibe that encourages innovation and critical thinking. At Tipalti, you'll have the opportunity to work with a diverse, global team of engineers, developers and product leaders who are collectively building the future of our best-in-class product suite as we transform financial operations for the future.

Our Mission
Our mission is to elevate how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. We are the AI-powered platform that automates finance.

Tipalti is fueled by a commitment to our customers and a desire to build lasting connections. Our client portfolio includes high-velocity businesses such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, , and ZipRecruiter. We work hard for our 99% customer retention rate which is built on trust, reliability and innovation. Tipalti means we handled it" - a mission to which we are constantly committed.

Accommodations
Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination.

As an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to for assistance.

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