# Engineering Manager, Reconciliation

**Company:** [Upside](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upside)
**Location:** Washington, DC, New York, NY, Austin, TX, Chicago, IL
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $188k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** kotlin multiplatform, Kotlin, Python, Java, AWS, Snowflake, Hex, rest, Microservices, serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, mvi, clean architecture, Generative AI
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Leads the Reconciliation engineering team responsible for transaction matching, cashback accuracy, and post-claim experiences across mobile and backend systems. The role combines people leadership, hands-on technical contribution, operational excellence, and cross-functional product strategy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the Reconciliation team, a full-stack group responsible for Upside’s transaction-matching pipeline across Kotlin Multiplatform front-end and Python and Java back-end systems.
- Build a safe, collaborative team and foster open discussion.
- Improve quality, performance, speed, and engineering standards.
- Coach engineers, recognize achievements, and support professional growth.
- Define and evolve the team’s domain, including offer reconciliation, post-claim consumer experiences, receiptful and receiptless transaction flows, and self-healing capabilities.
- Champion accuracy, reliability, observability, scalability, and clear decision-making across the reconciliation stack.
- Keep the platform secure, resilient, and production-ready.
- Contribute hands-on in high-leverage areas while guiding execution and modeling effective use of generative AI.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data, Consumer Operations, and external partners on roadmap and strategy.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Track record of scaling teams and improving systems amid ambiguity.
- Technical depth across mobile and API infrastructure and back-end data tools.
- Familiarity with mobile and API development patterns, including serverless, event-driven systems, REST, microservices, MVI, and Clean Architecture.
- Curiosity about generative AI as a tool for improving software development and operations.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with mobile or distributed API domains.
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with Snowflake, Hex, or similar back-end data tools.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Equity through incentive stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on the first day.
- 401(k) program.
- Family planning programs and paid parental leave.
- Fitness and wellness memberships.
- Emotional and mental health support programs.
- Unlimited paid time off, 10 paid federal holidays, and an annual week-long winter break.
- Flexible work environment.
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Learning and Development stipend.

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