Head of Engineering
Alinea Invest
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Mar 25, 2025
About Alinea
Alinea is an investing app for GenZs with over 1 million users. We’re a Y Combinator backed start-up and have raised over $5.5M for our seed round from top investors including Goodwater Capital, F7 Ventures, GFR and Worklife Ventures.
What You’ll Do
- Lead & Scale: Build and manage a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and execution.
- Architect & Execute: Own Alinea’s technical strategy, ensuring scalability, security, and performance as we grow.
- Collaborate & Innovate: Partner with product, design, and growth teams to launch new features that delight our users and drive business impact.
- Optimize & Improve: Continuously refine our infrastructure, development processes, and technology stack for efficiency and excellence.
- Recruit & Develop: Attract top engineering talent and mentor a team that’s passionate about building the future of investing.
Qualifications
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years of engineering work, ideally at a high-growth startup or fintech company.
- Technical Excellence: Broad-based knowledge needed to build a collaborative, client-server application end to end.
- Strategic Thinker: Strong ability to balance short-term execution with long-term scalability and vision.
- Execution-Driven: Comfortable in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment where impact matters more than bureaucracy.
- Passion for Alinea’s Mission: Deep interest in fintech, investing, and financial empowerment.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: Swift + SwiftUI
- Backend: Node.js (Express) + TypeScript
- Database & Infrastructure: MongoDB + AWS (EB, EC2, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy)
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a mission-driven, company revolutionizing investing for the next generation.
- Work alongside a driven, ambitious team backed by world-class investors.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and opportunity to shape a fast-growing company from the ground up.
- A culture that values curiosity, execution, and impact.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to chat. Let’s build the future of investing together