Director of Engineering

About Truv Truv is transforming the financial data industry with a secure and real-time API platform for payroll account access. Our technology streamlines income and employment verification, direct deposit switching, and more—eliminating outdated processes and unlocking greater financial opportunities. Backed by $30M from top investors like Kleiner Perkins and NYCA, we’re disrupting a $2B legacy market with cutting-edge innovation and a customer-first approach. Our leadership team brings expertise from industry giants like Apple, Carta, Venmo, MX, and Okta, driving the future of financial data access. What You’ll Do Team capacity planning and hiring: define roles, manage recruitment, interviewing, make hiring decisions, oversee onboarding. Hold regular team and one-on-one meetings. Leadership oversight and performance management for technical leads. Team-building activities. Manage personnel (dismissals, promotions, leave authorizations, bonuses, compensation). Regular performance reviews, address performance issues, and develop PIPs. Run regular grooming sessions. Assign and monitor engineering tasks. Provide technical validation (code review, quality assessment, and release authorization); serve as an escalation point for critical issues. Guide architectural design and technical decisions for integration projects. Define and enforce team-wide engineering standards. Oversee infrastructure architecture and security for distributed systems processing sensitive payroll, financial, and PII data in SOC 2-compliant environments. Lead design and implementation of data quality monitoring systems for payroll accuracy. Oversee project planning, execution, and timely completion. Task prioritization, track improvements in business metrics, identify blockers. Represent the engineering team in client-facing technical discussions. Telecommuting/Work-From-Home within the U.S. Who You Are Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Aviation Technology, or related technical field and five years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or Backend Developer. Knowledge of PII compliance frameworks and secure coding principles. Proficiency in: Python development, distributed backend architecture, API design, performance optimization. Relational databases. Major cloud platform deployment. Experience with: Designing authorized data extraction systems; API reverse-engineering, browser automation, anti-automation mitigation in compliant, user-authorized environments. Handling sensitive financial data. Implementing observability systems. Data quality monitoring with alerting for production environments. Implementing data validation and verification techniques, including heuristic or statistical methods for cross-source data validation of financial information. Leading technical projects from design to release. Establishing, enforcing engineering standards, code review workflows, and development best practices. Cross-functional collaboration: translating business requirements into technical solutions. Technical interviewing. Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). LLM-based autonomous agents and workflows for data processing. $180,000 - $220,000 a year Base Salary We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.