Team Leader, Engineering - Account Linking

San Francisco, CA, Washington, D.C., New York City, N.Y., Remote (USA)

Rocket Money’s mission is to empower people to live their best financial lives. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.

The Financial Connections team helps Rocket Money members see their finances clearly and confidently. We build and maintain the integrations that connect our members’ financial accounts, providing reliable access to accurate, up-to-date balances, transactions, and other financial data. Our platform provides the foundation of data that enables Rocket Money to help our members understand and manage their finances.

If you’re the kind of leader who gets excited about turning complex integrations into dependable experiences for millions of people, you could be a great fit for our team. We’re looking for a technically engaged, empathetic leader to grow our engineers, shape our technical direction, and build strong partnerships—helping our members trust that their financial picture is complete and current.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:

Lead a small team that has a direct impact on our business. You’ll:

• Be the face of Account Linking.Be an advocate and ambassador for Account Linking, and foster strong working relationships with other engineering leaders, product managers, and operations team members. Drive collaboration, communicate capabilities and constraints, and help teams use financial account data effectively to unlock innovation for our users, team members, and business.
• Set the technical direction.Work with the team to guide architectural decisions and identify investments that unlock new capabilities and keep our platform scalable and maintainable. Establish a clear direction for how our systems should evolve.
• Champion reliability and data quality.Define how we measure the health of account connections and the completeness, accuracy, and freshness of financial data. Lead improvements in monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues and build trust in the data our members and partner teams rely on.
• Drive delivery.Own delivery of the team’s commitments and drive execution of a quarterly roadmap that balances new capabilities, reliability, and long-term system health. Make decisions, clear blockers, communicate progress and risks, and work with Product to adjust priorities when necessary.
• Stay close to the work.Stay technically engaged through RFCs, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving. Help engineers evaluate tradeoffs and unblock implementation while empowering them to own execution. Explore developments in agentic software development and help the team adopt practices that improve the quality and pace of delivery.
• Support and grow the team.Provide ongoing coaching and actionable feedback, hold regular 1:1s, and deliver performance reviews. Build individualized growth plans that match each engineer's strengths and ambitions, and create opportunities to put those plans into practice.
• You're an
  engineer who leads engineers.An engineer by trade, you have 8+ years of experience shipping production systems — ideally with some combination of Node/Type Script, React, GraphQL, and Postgres (or similar relational database).
• You’ve supported external integrations and
  driven operational excellence on platform teams.You’ve supported large data sets in production and used observability and root-cause analysis to improve reliability and data quality.
• You have at least
  one year of experience leading
  an engineering team, and a track record of leading senior ICs
• You
  lead with empathy and…