Engineering Manager, Finance Engineering

What You'll Do

• Manage a team of software and data engineers - who work AI-first by default
• Own the technical vision for SeatGeek’s core financial systems, tools (both custom + Saas) and integrations
• Ensure the financial automation stack reads from the right upstream tools / systems across the business seamlessly, adapt and translate that information into our general ledger and billing systems
• Rapidly build and iterate tools to boost the quality and speed of interactions with our finance data, building and leveraging deep cross functional partnerships with the broader engineering org
• Maintain a high standard of accuracy, completeness and operational excellence across the platform
• Define and deliver the go-forward architecture that allows SeatGeek’s financial automation stack to excel in a landscape increasingly transformed by agentic interactions and capabilities
• Perform code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
• Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
• Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary.
• You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
• At times, roll up your sleeves to deliver features and iterate across the platform
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can

What You Have

• 5+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing code
• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager of productive, motivated teams
• Proven track record leading teams to ship industry-leading UX that meaningfully elevates high-stakes customer experiences
• Proven experience handling and processing transactional data at scale in a SOX controlled environment
• You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
• You’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
• You're comfortable operating without a playbook — defining the architecture, the team's ways of working, and the roadmap simultaneously
• You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders
• You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership
• You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following:
• Custom tools to automate financial operations and create accurate and complete financial reporting outputs
• Extensive hands-on transactional data experience, and knowledge of finance and accounting principles