Full Stack Technical Lead

About Valitana

Valitana is a rapid growing FinTech startup providing cutting-edge SaaS solutions for institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platforms have advanced financial analysis, trade flow, and portfolio management tools. Valitana provides robust, intuitive solutions allowing our clients to make informed decisions by improving their operational workflows.

With over 500+ active users, our institutional clients include CLO investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices, and broker dealers. Valitana was Ranked #1 in the “Best CLO Analytics Service”, “Best Secondary CLO Platform”, and “Best CLO Portfolio Management Service” in the Creditflux CLO Census for 2023.

Position Overview

Valitana is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead (backend-focused)to help accelerate technology and business growth within a FinTech, client-facing environment. This role is suited for a hands-on senior engineer and technical leader with strong system-design instincts for data-intensive applications, who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative setting and takes ownership of delivering reliable, scalable, and secure software solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on technical expertise with the ability to lead, mentor, and influence other developers, while maintaining a strong product- and client-oriented mindset. This individual will play a key role in shaping both the platform and the people building it.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to data-intensive, client-facing FinTech applications with a focus on scalability, performance, security, and correctness.
• Own feature areas, services, and components end-to-end—from design and implementation through production support—while guiding other engineers through delivery.
• Own technical design and delivery for a defined domain or service area.
• Ensure delivery meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead technical execution for client-facing initiatives, partnering closely with product, business, and client stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, maintainable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and day-to-day guidance to engineers, including reviewing work, mentoring team members, and helping raise the technical bar.
• Lead and manage a small team of engineers, supporting career growth and skill development.
• Act as primary technical escalation point for the domain and team.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy within agreed architectural boundaries while helping set technical direction, priorities, and execution plans within the broader engineering organization.
• Uphold and reinforce coding standards, API design, architectural principles, and engineering best practices, contributing to their ongoing evolution.
• Proactively identify technical risks, design trade-offs, and delivery challenges, collaborating with peers and leadership to drive resolution.
• Foster a culture of quality and accountability through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Full-Stack or Back-End Developer within the FinTech or broader technology space.
• Experience leading multi-quarter technical initiatives.
• Ability to balance business delivery with long-term platform improvements.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers, including providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, supporting career development, and influencing technical direction.
• Strong proficiency in server-side programming languages and technologies – C#/.Net, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, SQL, Python is a plus.
• Experience with web frameworks and technologies – Angular, Javascript, Typescript.
• Strong understanding of agile development methodologies, with experience operating in fast-paced, iterative environments.
• Proven ability to operate as a self-starter and technical leader, balancing hands-on execution with strategic thinking and team collaboration.
• Experience designing, building, or supporting cloud-based architectures; familiarity with cloud-hosted systems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Preferred: Experience or familiarity with financial products, particularly structured products. Experience leading or managing a team of 5-10 engineers, with 1-2 years of direct management experience is a plus.

What We Offer

The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000. Valitana offers a competitive compensation package which includes base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, healthcare with medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, and PTO.

Employees in this role will work in the office Mondays through Wednesdays with the flexibility to work remotely Thursdays and Fridays.

Assessment and Automated Screening Tools

As part of this hiring process, you may be asked to complete a technical assessment administered through HackerRank, a third-party platform. By participating, advancing, or completing the assessment you are consenting to HackerRank possibly using automated features to evaluate or score the submitted work, and information about your submission is processed by that platform.

Categories of data processed: The code or written work you submit, assessment scores, completion time, and, if enabled, session activity data. Source of that data is the information you provide directly by completing the assessment.

How it is assessed: A Valitana employee reviews assessment results, and no hiring decision is made solely on the basis of an automated score. If you would like more information about how the assessment is evaluated contact Valitana Human Resources at [email protected].

Equal Opportunity and Accommodation

Valitana is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal or Connecticut law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply, interview, complete an assessment, or otherwise participate in this hiring process, contact the Human Resources team at [email protected]. Requesting an accommodation will not affect how your application is considered.