R&D Team Lead

About Obol

Obol is redefining how businesses manage cash flow. Our platform equips finance teams with powerful tools to automate operations, forecast with confidence, and make smarter decisions—all in real-time. With seamless integrations to bank accounts, ERPs, and payment processors, Obol turns complex financial workflows into streamlined, proactive strategies.

Backed by leading American VCs and leaders from top tech companies like Square, PayPal, eBay, Tipalti, and Afterpay, Obol is at the forefront of financial innovation. We’re tackling a mission-critical challenge for finance teams across North America, empowering businesses to focus less on cash flow worries and more on achieving their ambitions.

As a member of the Obol team, you’ll work closely with the founders and a world-class team to shape the future of cash flow management through technology. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact at an early stage and contribute to our mission of empowering businesses.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Team Leader to help shape, build, and grow Obol’s core engineering capabilities. You’ll lead a high-impact team responsible for both extending existing system capabilities and creating new products and features. This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership — guiding architecture, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers — all within a fast-moving, product-focused environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Establish a culture of high standards, quality and delivery.
• Coach your team to help them grow and excel in their work.
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Recruit new team members .
• Define and guide new architectures, build and maintain scalable microservices.
• Ensure best practices in testing, monitoring, and performance.

What We’re Looking For

Leadership & Management:

• Proven management experience – demonstrated success leading teams and managing complex projects, including 3+ years leading engineers, with a track record of hiring, growing, and managing high-performing teams.
• High degree of independence – the ability to self-motivate, drive initiatives, and advance workstreams without external dependency.
• Empathy and leadership – the capacity to build a supportive, growth-oriented environment for team members with a mentorship mindset
• High work standards – meticulous attention to detail, commitment to quality, and the ability to maintain focused, effective execution.
• Creativity and problem-solving – original thinking and the ability to develop innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Hands-on experience in building highly scalable systems – with a deep understanding of distributed architecture, performance optimization, and reliability.
• Back-end focus – with working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks and the ability to collaborate effectively across the stack.
• Experience with event-driven systems – proficiency with message brokers and streaming platforms like Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development – comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
• DevOps familiarity (advantage) – hands-on experience with DevOps tools and frameworks such as Terraform, ArgoCD, and similar technologies.
• Experience with payment and/or money transfer systems (advantage) – familiarity with financial transaction workflows, integrations, and compliance considerations.

Why Join Obol?

• Be part of a fast-growing fintech startup with global impact.
• Shape Obol’s data platform and engineering culture from the ground up.
• Work on complex, meaningful challenges with real business impact.
• Grow in a supportive environment that values creativity, progress, and ownership.