Eleve Talent · 16 hours ago
Lead Developer
Greater St. Louis
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$155K/yr - $185K/yrEleve Talent is a St. Louis-based investment firm that focuses on specialized market sectors and integrated strategic approaches. The Lead Developer owns delivery process, quality standards, and team execution to ensure reliable and scalable technology solutions while managing a small team and collaborating with investment and operations teams.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Jess Miller
Responsibilities
Own the PR process, testing standards, CI/CD, and incident reviews
Ensure every critical change has tests and rollback plans
Maintain coding standards and repo hygiene across stacks
Co-own planning and execution with the SVP Technology and team for the analysis platform, reporting platform features, data pipelines, backoffice improvements, and risk model rollouts
Maintain a rolling 1–3 quarter roadmap aligned with CIO and COO priorities
Keep work flowing and unblocked by managing tradeoffs, sequencing, and dependencies
Manage a small team of developers and data scientists with clear goals, feedback cycles, and growth plans
Lead hiring when upgrades or backfills are needed
Protect focus time and reduce context switching for the team
Translate business needs into scoped, realistic projects
Serve as the default point of contact for status updates and delivery expectations to internal customers
Communicate tradeoffs clearly, sequencing work across quarters
Take on complex features that others cannot yet handle or that unblock the team
Pair with ICs on tricky tasks to raise capability and velocity
Expect to spend roughly 20–40% of your time in hands-on coding and pairing, depending on the phase of team growth
Qualification
Required
Experience leading small engineering teams or major projects in a fast-moving environment (formal management or strong tech lead experience)
Strong delivery management skills, including roadmapping, scoping, and prioritization
Proven ability to define and enforce engineering quality standards
Understanding of version control like git and modern development tools like GitHub and modern deployment practices such as GitHub Actions, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Hands-on software development experience in Python and web frameworks
Ability to translate business needs into technical plans and shipped outcomes
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Demonstrated ability for end-to-end development from idea inception to hypothesis testing, prototype generation, and productionizing programs
Demonstrated report and presentation development and delivery skills
Preferred
Experience with data pipelines, analytical systems, or research platforms
Familiarity with Django-based applications and web dashboards
Exposure to AWS and data storage systems such as S3 and Postgres
Understanding of commodity markets or financial trading workflows
Experience mentoring engineers and data scientists in modeling and systems thinking
Familiarity with the Django web development framework
Interest in gaining an understanding of risk, volatility, and recommend ways to measure and act based on indicators of interest
Comfort in reading and understanding academic literature including books, journals, or scholarly papers
Experience with predictive models, including understanding of backtesting and forward testing strategies, Monte Carlo, and other ways to generate and validate models
Exposure to the modern analysis ecosystem such as Jupyter Notebooks, Excel or Airtable with SQL, and data wrangling formats like CSV or Parquet
Experience developing in the cloud using AWS Lambda, large relational databases, and columnar databases
Experience running sustainable tools and using modern logging, alerting, documentation, and security practices
Experience with using LLM tools productively on greenfield and existing projects and integrating them to lead to productive results with minimal long-term penalty to the project
Company
Eleve Talent
We specialize in helping early-stage companies from Pre-Seed through Series B build the kind of teams that fuel sustainable growth.
Founded in 2023
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Ryan Moore
Co-Founder
Wendy Moore
Founder
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