Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

Attributes We Value: We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

Who you are:

• Experienced in Distributed Systems: You have a strong foundation in designing and implementing distributed systems, with hands-on experience in backend development and database technologies.
• Strong Communicator: You effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Collaborative and Inclusive: You foster a team environment that values diverse perspectives and promotes continuous learning.
• Analytical and Strategic: You leverage data to drive decisions, aligning engineering efforts with business objectives for optimal outcomes.
• Proactive and Resourceful: You take initiative and skillfully navigate complex technical challenges to deliver impactful results.
• Meticulous and Accuracy-Driven: You prioritize financial correctness and have an eye for detail, ensuring reliability in client ledgers and transactions.
• Curious Learner: You're eager to explore new tools and technologies, including AI, to innovate and enhance your technical expertise.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on solving availability & consistency challenges across mission-critical, distributed systems
• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of developers
• Solid understanding of accounting concepts (ledger, financial transactions) & experience working in a financial domain

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong cloud experience GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes
• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana #LI-SM3