Head of Engineering, Spade
$230-300k
+ Equity package
Financial data enrichment API
Job no longer available
Financial data enrichment API
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$230-300k
+ Equity package
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering, including 4+ in engineering leadership
- 5+ years of experience working on B2B, API products
- Passion for people management, particularly recruiting and developing technical talent
- Experience successfully scaling an engineering team with proven results
- High-ownership, high velocity mindset
- Experience with some / all of the following: Python, SQL, API design, data pipelines/orchestration, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems
- Experience in high growth environments (startups preferred)
Desirable
- Experience in fintech, data, and/or AI products
- Strong preference for NYC but open to remote for exceptional candidates
What the job involves
- Spade is an engineering driven company. Our success is predicated on our ability to deliver a high quality, reliable, and scalable product to our rapidly growing customer base.
- We’re looking for a product-focused engineering leader who is passionate about building a team, scaling a product, and solving some of the most challenging problems in fintech.
- In this role, you’ll report directly to our CEO and sit on our leadership team, representing engineering in strategic product and company decisions. You will:
- Lead, mentor, and grow our engineering team, with a focus on working across infrastructure, data pipelines, API design and product delivery
- Define and drive the engineering vision, architecture, and technical roadmap to deliver on company goals
- Work closely with the CEO to deliver customer-centric products and drive new strategic initiatives
- Foster an engineering culture of high ownership, high velocity, and high performance – empowering individuals and enabling them to do their best work
- Implement scalable engineering practices to improve shipping consistency and reliability, and support business growth
- Build out the systems and practices to scale our engineering team, identifying and onboarding high performing talent in partnership with our recruiting team
- Partner with our Head of Data & ML to foster effective collaboration across data and engineering
Our take
Founded in 2021, Spade is a universal transaction enrichment API built for fintech companies. Often there is a vast amount of data that cannot be tracked or is not provided within transactions. Sometimes the name used isn't the company name, the geo data is different to where you paid etc. So this is where Spade wants to build a new generation in fintech infrastructure.
The company has developed an API that enhances all the data details around financial activity, fraud detection, merchant matching, and category organisation. These are all super appealing features for Spade customers to get to know their users’ spending habits better and keep internet banking secure.
Spade attracted considerable Series A funding when it was just two years old, demonstrating the need for this product in the market. With this funding, the company has worked on expanding its team and developed its merchant intelligence product and now boasts clients like Stripe, Bilt, Corpay, Mercury, and Unit.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2026
$40m
SERIES B
Dec 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62.4m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Oban MacTavish
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Hubly. More recently worked as an Investment Analyst at Cove Street Capital (CSC).
Cooper Hart
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founded Spade in October 2021.
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