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