Engineering Manager, Verifications

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team, including technical direction, performance and career development, and hiring.
• Own the reliability and quality of fulfillment integrations; partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction, improve turnaround times, and minimize candidate and customer impact.
• Partner with Product on the roadmap for employment, education, drug and health, and compliance products.
• Translate customer and regulatory requirements into engineering priorities.
• Drive technical strategy for scaling integration-heavy systems, improving coverage, reducing manual exceptions, and increasing automation.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices while maintaining quality and accuracy in a regulated, data-sensitive product.
• Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning and advise on capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing.

Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, with a record of building and developing high-performing teams.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design.
• Experience managing complex third-party integration environments.
• Track record of improving operational metrics, such as incident frequency, detection time, and production reliability.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools.
• Experience with regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are critical.
• Strong incident management and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize short-term reliability work against longer-term product investments.
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to developing people through career conversations and stretch assignments.
• Humility, openness to feedback, eagerness to learn, bias for action, resilience, and ownership.

Compensation and Benefits

• San Francisco, CA on-target earnings or base salary range: $233,000–$274,000 USD.
• Denver, CO on-target earnings or base salary range: $197,000–$232,000 USD.
• Learning and development allowance.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Monthly wellness stipend.
• In-office perks may include meals, commuter stipend, snacks, and beverages.
• Relocation stipend may be available for relocation to a hub location.