Technical Lead Developer (Owner)

Atticus is the first and only mobile app designed for probate and estate settlement, combining powerful technology with intuitive user experiences to save time and money. Families and their advisors use Atticus to navigate probate, estate settlement, and inheritance with confidence and peace of mind. Without Atticus, the typical family spends an average of 513 hours and $14,225 over 12+ months managing estate tasks, often involving up to 15 advisors.

About the role

As a technical lead engineer, you will lead and own architecture and development decisions across our institutional and consumer products. You’ll collaborate directly with the founding product and development teams to build new consumer-facing products, platforms, features, API enhancements, and architectural infrastructure. Our team has prior experience building and launching products at scale for companies like TurboTax, ServiceNow, and Allbirds.

This role is ideal for a senior lead engineer who thrives in a hands-on coding environment (80-95% of the time), pushes back on unnecessary meetings, and enjoys working alongside a tight-knit team of senior talent.

Responsibilities

• Define, articulate, and execute the strategy and roadmap for product adoption
• Collaborate with founding engineering, design, domain, and customer-facing teams
• Resolve defects and bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Deeply understand customer needs by engaging with the product team, customers, and sales to identify patterns in feedback and the market
• Define and execute against product KPIs, communicating progress weekly
• Drive the product development lifecycle for key features
• Engage on product requirements that clearly articulate the problem, its impact, and solutions
• Understand market alternatives and platform capabilities to validate or adjust direction
• Partner with internal teams to document and communicate product capabilities internally and externally

Qualifications

• Senior full-stack developer capable of delivering stories, participating in scrum and sprint planning, and building features centered on user experience
• Experience fixing bugs and engaging in design discussions with a focus on scalability and maintainability
• Background working in multi-disciplinary product teams alongside developers, designers, and product owners, ideally in building digital products at scale
• Open to sharing knowledge and improving team processes through pair programming, code reviews, or other methods
• Enjoys mentoring others and succeeding as a team

Skills

• Front-end JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
• TypeScript, ES6
• Relational and graph database designs (MySQL)
• Creating REST endpoints
• Style frameworks (Material-UI, Bootstrap, etc.)
• Automated testing (Jest, Mocha, Storybook, Jasmine, Cypress)
• Proficient across the AWS suite
• Developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale, consumer-facing web or mobile applications
• Social, mobile, cloud/SaaS, big data, and analytics

Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue, Bootstrap, MySQL, Node.js, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, React, Redux, TypeScript, Material-UI, AWS

Bonus Points

• Experience working for a startup (pre-Series A/B stage)
• Navigating or maintaining compliance audits (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001)
• Designing complex platform knowledge engines
• Maintaining large, functional datasets
• Form filling, population, and custom annotation
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• Blockchain and Smart Contracts
• Experience in fintech, insurtech, or legaltech

Benefits

• 100% remote work (remote-first culture)
• Flexible PTO
• Eligible for employee stock options and equity grants

Atticus is a fintech company committed to empowering families through probate and estate settlement. Our platform combines personalized guidance with intuitive tools, helping families and advisors save time and money. Available nationally in the U.S. and Canada, Atticus is backed by a passionate team of industry experts. We’re a hard-working, fun team of ~15+ and growing quickly.