Engineering Manager
AstraLaunch Services, company
RemoteManager
BlackRock
Canaan
Marc Benioff
SherpaVentures Fund II, LP
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead a backend engineering team for a fintech platform.
- •We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of backend engineers building the systems that power our fintech platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and Develop Your Team: Manage a team of backend engineers, running a rigorous delivery process, conducting regular 1:1s, and supporting career growth across all levels of the team.
- •Manage Delivery: Own sprint planning, milestone tracking, and velocity.
- •Catch slipping projects early, remove blockers, and balance technical quality with business speed so the team ships reliably.
- •Hire and Grow Talent: Own hiring for your team, from screening through onboarding, and build the structures (leveling, mentorship, promotion paths) that help engineers grow.
- •Build Engineering Culture: Establish the norms, standards, and practices, code review, on-call, planning cadence, that define how your team works day to day.
- •Stay Hands-On: Spend a meaningful chunk of your time in the codebase, code review, design review, and picking up complex work directly, especially where it unblocks the team or where your experience adds the most leverage.
- •Requirements 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team, including performance management, hiring, and career development, this is the core of the role 5+ years of overall software engineering experience, with enough recent hands-on depth to stay credible in technical discussions and contribute directly when needed Demonstrated ability to run a delivery process: sprint planning, milestone tracking, and catching problems before they become fire drills Experience as a player-coach, comfortable spending most of your time on people and delivery while still being able to step into technical work Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually
Required skills
Engineering ManagementPythonDjangoPostgreSQLGoogle CloudCI/CDKubernetesMicroservices
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company, Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements, Professional growth, lead a team through a real scaling stage and grow with it, Modern tech stack, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, Mission-driven, build systems that power financial innovation
Tech stack
PythonDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandraSQLiteOracleSQL ServerNeo4jCockroachDBTimescaleDB
