Engineering Manager

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the codebase as a technical force multiplier: filling gaps, improving quality, and modeling engineering standards.
• Lead and Develop Your Team: Manage a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous growth. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and support career development across all levels of the team.
• Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements — and guide your team in doing the same.
• Drive Technical Decisions: Own architecture decisions that impact the entire platform, establishing best practices and engineering standards as the organization scales.
• Stay Hands-On: Contribute directly to complex engineering work — write code, participate in design reviews, and remain an active technical voice on the team.
• Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems across a distributed microservices architecture.
• Partner Across the Organization: Collaborate closely with product, compliance, and other engineering teams to design systems that meet both business and regulatory requirements.
• Build Engineering Culture: Establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices that will define the team's culture from the ground up.
• Manage Delivery: Balance technical quality with business velocity — plan engineering work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team, including performance management and hiring
• Demonstrated experience as a player-coach — comfortable moving between technical execution and team leadership
• Proven track record of solving complex, cross-domain engineering challenges in production environments

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred

Technical Skills

• Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
• Database Design: Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases
• Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud platforms
• Architecture Patterns: Domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS
• System Design: Ability to design systems that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements
• Distributed Systems: Event-driven architectures, microservices, and high-scale system design

Leadership Skills

• Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Experience setting technical direction and building alignment across engineering and product teams
• Ability to hire, onboard, and grow engineering talent
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information

Preferred Experience

• Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems
• Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory frameworks
• Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems
• High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes
• Third-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations