Monk
Engineering Lead, Financial Systems
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years building and operating production backend systems; experience leading a team of engineers.
About the job
Own the technical direction, delivery, and operation of Monk’s financial systems while leading an engineering team building integrations and tools for enterprise accounts receivable workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and operate systems integrating with ERPs, accounting platforms, banking data, payment providers, files, and APIs; support enterprise customers and accelerate go-lives.
- Lead complex projects end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and telemetry.
- Lead and mentor a small engineering pod, set priorities and technical plans, and build autonomous agents and tooling to increase engineering productivity.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building and operating production backend systems.
- Experience leading a team of engineers.
- Experience building APIs, data processing pipelines, and event-driven systems.
- Strong experience with Postgres, AWS, data pipelines, and observability; comfortable with agentic workflows, AI tooling, and orchestration systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with fintech or payments data systems.
- Experience building backend infrastructure for LLM or agent products; founding or early backend hire experience.
Tools
TypeScript, Temporal, Postgres, AWS
AI focus
Build autonomous agents and productivity tooling, and use coding agents as a primary development driver; work with agentic workflows, AI tooling, and orchestration systems.
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