Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

Company Credit Genie is a mobile-first financial wellness platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial future. We leverage artificial intelligence to provide personalized insights and are building a financial ecosystem by offering tools and services that provide instant access to cash, and building credit. Our goal is to empower every customer to achieve long-term financial stability.

What You'll Do

• Technical Leadership
  Set technical direction for the team — deciding what to build and how — in partnership with product managers and cross-functional leaders, aligning engineering efforts with business priorities.
  Lead system design review, giving substantive, critical feedback that shapes how the team's architecture evolves.
  Stay genuinely hands-on: write code regularly (not just review it), and step in to unblock the team or fill in for engineers when the situation calls for it, without hesitation.
  Oversee the architecture and delivery of scalable, high-performance backend services, ensuring technical solutions are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term goals.
  Make thoughtful trade-offs between tech debt and feature delivery, maintaining system health while accelerating product impact.

• People Leadership
  Run consistent 1:1s, give direct and meaningful feedback, and build clear career development plans for each direct report.
  Mentor and coach engineers to help them grow into stronger ICs and future leaders.
  Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and urgency on the team.

• Operational Excellence
  Promote engineering best practices with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and code quality.
  Manage and continuously improve team processes — sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives — to drive effective collaboration and timely delivery.
  Own incident response for your team's systems, including on-call participation.

Success Criteria

• Bias toward building, not just overseeing.
  Low ego, high initiative.
  Constructive with peers.
  All-in.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 5 or more
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with current, active coding involvement (roughly 20% of your time, or a clear desire to increase it)
• Experience building and operating distributed, high-throughput, and mission-critical systems, ideally in financial services
• Proven track record of leading teams to deliver complex projects
• Experience mentoring engineers into future leaders and growing talent
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call operations
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with a bias for action
• Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with mobile app ecosystems and lending or cash advance products
• Experience managing managers, or a clear track record of preparing for it

Benefits And Perks

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
• Receive up to $100 per month in fitness reimbursement or enjoy a complimentary full membership to LifeTime Fitness or Equinox.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting
• Meal program available for both lunch and dinner
• Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match
• Life and accidental insurance
• Flexible PTO

Pay

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Schedule

We expect employees to be in the office five days a week, but we are committed to supporting our employees when circumstances arise that require remote work or adjusted schedules.