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# Engineering Team Lead at Fuelfinance

- **Company:** Fuelfinance
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/fuelfinance/am9icG9zdDqZJzheYT5oYGipIC6umoR_

## Job description

Who are we?

Fuelfinance is on a mission to revolutionize financial management for early-stage startups, empowering them to take control of their finances and thrive. We recently raised $1M in Seed Funding from top-tier investors like Markus Villig (Bolt), John S. Kim (SendBird), Stratmind, and Bad Ideas funds, following 3 years of profitable, bootstrapped success. Trusted by businesses with over $200M in P&L, including Reface, Petcube, and Hampton, we've built a universal tool that brings clarity and insight to finance management.

With 38% of startups failing due to cash flow issues, our goal is to prevent these failures and unlock trillions in GDP growth. At Fuelfinance, we're not just creating software — we're safeguarding the future of thousands of startups. Join us and be part of this impact!

fuelfinance.me [www.instagram.com/fuelfinance](http://www.instagram.com/fuelfinance) youtu.be/eI5VH2Ks9o4

Who are we searching for?

We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a new engineering team working on a new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance AI finance platform.

This is a player-coach role: roughly half of your time is hands-on engineering, the other half is leading — architecture, planning, hiring, and growing people. You start with a team of one senior engineer and help hire the rest. You are the technical decision-maker for this direction and are accountable for what it ships.

The team

You'll build a new team inside R&D. You'll report to the Head of Engineering and work closely with the core product team (5 engineers, 1 QA), the Product Director, and the C-level team.

What will you build?

- A new enterprise product line on top of the Fuelfinance platform (details are shared during the interview process)
- The architecture that lets it reuse and extend the core platform: AI finance agents, MCP infrastructure and agent orchestration, integrations with accounting platforms, banks, and payment systems (QuickBooks, Xero, Stripe), access controls, and reporting
- The team itself: hiring, onboarding, engineering practices, and standards

What are your responsibilities?

- Lead a small engineering team as a player-coach — ~50% hands-on coding and reviews, ~50% architecture, planning, and people
- Own the architecture of the product line — make and defend design decisions, keep them aligned with the core platform, drive System Design Reviews
- Own delivery and be accountable for outcomes — plan, estimate, raise risks early, ship fast without cutting corners that matter
- Hold the quality bar — testing strategy, code review standards, observability, and incident response are your responsibility
- Hire and grow the team — take part in hiring, run 1:1s, give regular feedback, develop engineers along our seniority grading
- Be a product partner — work directly with the Product Director and stakeholders, understand customer problems, push back on scope when needed
- Set the standard for AI-native engineering — agentic coding workflows, proper codebase context, end-to-end verification — and make it the team's default
- Keep security and data integrity at the core of everything — we handle customers' financial data
- Protect the team's culture — ownership, direct communication, honest feedback

What are the preferred requirements for the role?

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a team with real accountability for delivery
- Experience building products or systems from scratch and taking them to production with a small team
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development (a must) — not just chat-based usage: you build agentic coding workflows, feed the right codebase context to models, and verify AI output with end-to-end testing
- Proficiency in both frontend and backend development
- TypeScript, Node.js (Nest.js), React
- SQL, MongoDB
- AWS knowledge
- Strong system design skills — you design for scale, security, and maintainability and can explain trade-offs to non-engineers
- Experience hiring and mentoring engineers
- Experience enhancing system and infrastructure security
- B2/C1 English level
- Comfortable with startup mode: shifting priorities, fast pace, high ownership

Will be a plus:

- Experience with LLM APIs in production (Anthropic, OpenAI), RAG, agents, or evals
- Fintech background or experience on security-focused projects
- Knowledge of one of the following: Go, Python
- Early-stage startup experience
- Experience with infrastructure setup

Recruitment Process:

- Soft skills interview
- System Design & Experience Review
- Leadership & Management interview
- Culture fit interview

Why work with us?

- Build a new product line from day one — architecture, team, and practices are yours to shape
- Real leadership scope early — you own a direction and work directly with the Product Director and C-level
- Build the future of finance work — design AI-native finance products, not just maintain them
- Rapid skills improvement
- Growth opportunities according to our seniority grading (it comes with a compensation increase)
- Flexible schedule and time-off policy
- 18 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leaves

## About Fuelfinance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fuelfinance provides an AI-powered financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform paired with human CFO services to help startups and SMBs manage budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Wilmington, Delaware, United States (with a major operational office in Kyiv, Ukraine)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Alyona Mysko (CEO), Yaroslav Azhnyuk (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Fintech, SaaS
- Target customers: Startups, scale-ups, and SMBs (B2B)
- Mission or purpose statement: To unlock billions of dollars in GDP by giving every SMB access to enterprise-level financial management, powered by AI and a human CFO.

## Products & Services
- **Fuel (FP&A Platform)**: An all-in-one SaaS platform that handles budgeting, forecasting, dashboards, and reporting. It integrates with 350+ tools (QuickBooks, Stripe, HubSpot, etc.) and uses AI for anomaly detection, custom dashboard creation, and instant reporting.
- **Human CFO Services**: Clients can opt for a dedicated part-time CFO who provides tailored financial advice and strategy, complementing the software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $2M (across 3 rounds).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes Hype Ventures, Ukrainian Startup Fund, StratMinds VC, BADideas.fund, Markus Villig, and Campus.
- **Growth Signals**: Manages over $500M in customer P&L; headcount grew to 41 employees (+2.2% YoY); distributed across 12 countries (primarily Ukraine and Colombia).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hybrid Model**: Combines a powerful, AI-driven SaaS platform with access to a human CFO, offering both automation and personalized strategic advice.
- **Deep Integrations**: Syncs with 350+ business tools, making it a central hub for financial data.
- **AI-First**: AI is embedded for anomaly detection, custom reporting, and natural language queries, reducing manual work.
- **Startup Niche Focus**: Tailored specifically for the financial workflows of fast-growing startups and SMBs, not just general accounting.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product-Led Growth**: Expanding the AI capabilities of the platform to automate more complex financial workflows.
- **Global Expansion**: Hiring and operating remotely across 12 countries, with a strong engineering and FP&A hub in Ukraine.
- **Vertical Integration**: Deepening integrations with more third-party apps to become the default financial operating system for SMBs.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: All open positions are fully remote, allowing for location flexibility.
- **High Impact Role**: Employees work directly on a platform that manages over $500M in customer P&L, with a direct impact on startup financial health.
- **Intersection of Finance & Tech**: Ideal for those interested in fintech, AI, and SaaS. The company blends financial expertise with modern engineering.
- **Diverse & Distributed Team**: Team members are spread across 12 countries, offering a multicultural work environment.
- **Key Open Roles**: Currently hiring for a Finance Engineer, FP&A Manager, and Senior Full-Stack Developer.

## Sources
1. [fuelfinance.me](https://fuelfinance.me/)
2. [jobs.gem.com/fuelfinance](https://jobs.gem.com/fuelfinance)
3. [linkedin.com/company/fuelfinance](https://linkedin.com/company/fuelfinance)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/fuelfinance](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/fuelfinance)
5. [theorg.com/org/fuelfinance](https://theorg.com/org/fuelfinance)

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