Engineering Manager - Consumer

Octane is a Fintech company whose mission is to connect people with their passions. The transaction process for large purchases such as powersports, RVs, boats, and home improvements is slow and frustrating, but Octane is changing that through automated underwriting, innovative credit products, and financing through our in-house lender Roadrunner Financial. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and Cycle Volta and helps consumers buy their favorite products with instant, frictionless financing on Octane.co. Octane is revolutionizing lending in under-served verticals that account for tens of billions of dollars in annual transactions.

Octane is gaining traction quickly with customers, as evidenced by growth in originations through our platform of more than $1B since inception. Octane works with more than 3,500 merchants in the USA and offers promotional financing with low rates for more than 40 OEM brands. Because we’re the platform and the lender, we have both high growth and positive unit economics - rare for a fintech. We have raised more than $192M in capital from leading investors, including Valar Ventures, IA Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Third Prime, Progressive Insurance and Citi Ventures and our lending securities are rated AA by Standard & Poor’s.

Octane is looking for an engineering manager well-versed with the rapid pace and demands of greenfield projects, especially in the direct to consumer space. We are looking for someone who can help guide their team with their experience working on new feature delivery, performance optimization, and third party site integrations. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives off of the challenge of coaching their engineers to strike the right balance between feature delivery, operational health, and models strategic business thinking when it comes to incurring technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate our company cultural values by engaging in diversity of people and ideas, seeking the truth and test assumptions, and ruthlessly prioritizing 
• Own business outcomes through a balance of speed, creativity, and relentless high bar for quality
• Act as the last line of defense for quality control, best practices and effective design strategies
• Foster a diverse and inclusive environment
• Play an active role in hiring and developing our engineering team
• Bring both technical acuity and leadership skills to build a high-performing team
• Grow your engineers and keep them motivated, empowered, and happy through effective continuous career development conversations
• Partnering with stakeholders to help your team understand their mission and how they fit in with the overall business goals; define and execute your team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap
• May be needed to jump into code but encouraged to prioritize leadership over direct contribution

Requirements

• 5 years experience in software engineering, at least 2 of them in a lead or manager capacity
• Experienced with managing remote/hybrid teams
• Growth mindset
• Have a passion for building and delivering products that require research, iteration, and discovery

• Experienced interacting with senior management; ability to demonstrate critical thinking and thought leadership.
• Proven track record of effectively developing direct reports through continual feedback and goal-setting, and growing them through the ranks of an engineering organization
• Managed teams of 5 direct reports or more
• Advanced understanding of building distributed web applications
• Familiarity with A/B testing and web analytics
• Demonstrated ability to attract, identify, and mentor top engineering talent

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Benefits

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Up to 5 weeks PTO (self-managed)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Retirement Plan (401k) with Company contribution 
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year 
• Powersports Safety Benefit: reimbursement of up to $500/year for the purchase of any powersports safety equipment
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life insurance
• Team Activities (remotely)
• Monthly company gift

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.