Engineering Manager

The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be an advocate, coach, and mentor for your team while solving various engineering challenges, doing hands-on coding, and scaling product success at a fast-paced start up. Our ideal candidate leverages their leadership, technical expertise, and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, you’ll help establish the team’s vision and see it through.

Our Team has a range of projects we work on, and is responsible for solving core platform problems. This involves areas including money, transactions, fraud, and risk. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.). You should also be strong at identifying and building the right abstractions to support engineers.

Responsibilities

• Help manage a high-performing team of engineers while coaching, mentoring, and advocating for them
• Collaborate on our technical vision and lead discussions and implementation of complex projects
• Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems to allow us to scale the code base, drive productivity, and develop the team
• Drive effective collaboration between engineering teams, product, and cross-functional colleagues
• Connect overall needs of the business with short and long-term technical requirements
• Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback
• Help attract and hire top talent by partnering with our talent acquisition team
• Foster our culture of excellence, velocity, and humility

About the team

Our current tech stack includes:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Lambda
• Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript

Required Qualifications

• Typically 5 years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years of management experience
• Startup experience with a demonstrated ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
• A successful track record of leading projects and shipping high-quality products 

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Curious about new technologies (e.g. Rust, GraphQL)
• Experience managing both local and remote team members