# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Creditgenie](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/creditgenie)
**Location:** New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $215k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, backend services, System Design, Incident Management, on-call operations, mentoring, Financial Services, Security, Data Privacy, Regulatory Compliance
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Lead a backend engineering team at a fintech startup as a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager. Set technical direction for scalable financial systems, write production code, mentor engineers, and drive operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

### Technical Leadership
- Set technical direction for the team — deciding what to build and how — in partnership with product managers and cross-functional leaders, aligning engineering efforts with business priorities.
- Lead system design review, giving substantive, critical feedback that shapes how the team's architecture evolves.
- Stay genuinely hands-on: write code regularly (not just review it), and step in to unblock the team or fill in for engineers when the situation calls for it.
- Oversee the architecture and delivery of scalable, high-performance backend services, ensuring technical solutions are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term goals.
- Make thoughtful trade-offs between tech debt and feature delivery, maintaining system health while accelerating product impact.

### People Leadership
- Run consistent 1:1s, give direct and meaningful feedback, and build clear career development plans for each direct report.
- Mentor and coach engineers to help them grow into stronger ICs and future leaders.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and urgency on the team.

### Operational Excellence
- Promote engineering best practices with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and code quality.
- Manage and continuously improve team processes — sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives — to drive effective collaboration and timely delivery.
- Own incident response for your team's systems, including on-call participation.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 5 or more
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with current, active coding involvement (roughly 20% of your time, or a clear desire to increase it)
- Experience building and operating distributed, high-throughput, and mission-critical systems, ideally in financial services
- Proven track record of leading teams to deliver complex projects
- Experience mentoring engineers into future leaders and growing talent
- Familiarity with incident management and on-call operations
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with a bias for action
- Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with mobile app ecosystems and lending or cash advance products
- Experience managing managers, or a clear track record of preparing for it

## Benefits and Perks
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
- Up to $100 per month in fitness reimbursement or complimentary full membership to LifeTime Fitness or Equinox.
- 401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting.
- Meal program available for both lunch and dinner.
- Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match.
- Life and accidental insurance.
- Flexible PTO.
- Bonus and equity programs.
- Short & long term disability insurance.

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