Investing Tech Team Lead

Who are we?

We are The Motley Fool, a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with nearly 30 years of experience focused on making the world smarter, happier, and richer. But what does that even mean?! It means we’re helping Fools (always with a capital “F”) demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through our products and services.

The Motley Fool is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. We are a motley group of overachievers that have built a culture of trust founded on Foolishness, fun, and a commitment to making the world smarter, happier and richer. However you identify or whatever winding road has led you to us, please don't hesitate to apply if the description above leaves you thinking, 'Hey! I could do that!'

What does this team do?

Ready to lead a dynamic engineering team that powers investment decisions for millions? This role puts you at the helm of The Motley Fool's investing microservices, where you'll orchestrate systems that handle everything from real-time market data to cutting-edge crypto analytics.

This role involves innovating at the intersection of fintech and software engineering, creating solutions that help investors make smarter decisions. You'll be working with cutting-edge technologies while ensuring performance and reliability for mission-critical financial data.

If you're passionate about building scalable financial systems and leading teams to excellence, this role puts you at the forefront of investment technology innovation at one of the most respected names in financial media.

What would you do in this role? 

• Lead the development and execution of Motley Fool’s investing microservices, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Responsible for systems and data core to our investing products, website, tools, and subscribers including:

  • US and international market data

  • Portfolio holdings and returns

  • Corporate actions

  • Company fundamentals

  • Crypto, Options, and IPOs

  • Automated aggregation of subscriber portfolios across brokerages

• Responsible for in-house systems that manage trading compliance and holdings disclosures

• Integrate with a variety of third party providers and tools

• Ensure calculations are accurate with automated tests to validate

• Ensure critical data is fresh and highly available with failover capabilities

• Collaborate with the team’s product owner and project manager to set the team up for success with shovel ready work that has the value and acceptance criteria clearly defined

• Conduct regular 1:1s with direct reports

• Regularly review code, contributions, and delivery flow to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization

• Drive professional development and career growth opportunities for team members

• Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch subscriber-facing solutions

• Find ways to leverage AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to assist the team  (e.g. architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, automated tests)

Must haves:

• 5+ years of experience building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining apis consumed by multiple systems using a Python-based framework like Django, FastApi, or Flask

• Proficient with performance optimization (async processing, caching, queuing, and query optimization)

• Experienced with system monitoring and telemetry

• Experienced working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL

• Skilled at developing full-stack web applications

• Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions

• Proven track record in high-performance teams, where cross-functional collaboration is valued

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

• Knowledge of investing and/or finance

Nice to haves:

• Architecting and developing stock investing microservices

• Experience with NextJs, React, Javascript

• Experience with portfolio aggregation services like Plaid

• Experience with Docker and containerization, as well as CI/CD pipelines

• Prior management and leadership experience