Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We support a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office, operating as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Gurugram (Delhi), and Bengaluru.

About the role

We’re looking for a strong Senior Engineering Manager to lead a backend/platform-focused engineering team responsible for powering SentiLink’s core products. This team owns the backend systems, external APIs, and services that power these experiences, as well as the technical foundation that ensures the product is scalable, reliable, and secure. You will lead a small but growing team of engineers responsible for building API-driven systems, evolving our platform architecture, and enabling product teams to move quickly with confidence. This role sits at the intersection of backend platform development, technical architecture, and people leadership. You’ll partner closely with product, data science, infrastructure, and front-end engineering teams to deliver high-quality systems in a fast-moving environment. This is a remote, US-based position.

Technologies

• React
• Golang
• Python
• PostgreSQL (RDS)
• Docker
• OpenSearch
• AWS technologies (Lambda, Cognito and other standard services)

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend/platform engineers building the systems that power Intercept and other critical applications
• Drive execution across planning, prioritization, and delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Own the technical direction of backend services and APIs, ensuring systems are secure, performant, and maintainable
• Partner with product and front-end teams to translate product requirements into robust backend architectures
• Collaborate with data science to productionize models and integrate decisioning systems into APIs and workflows
• Work closely with infrastructure to improve system reliability, observability, and developer experience
• Contribute to architectural decisions and guide the long-term evolution of our platform
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and operational excellence
• Support incident response and ensure systems meet SLA expectations
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while maintaining a high hiring bar
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Contribute to code and technical problem-solving as needed

Requirements

• 3-7 years of engineering management experience leading backend or platform teams
• Strong background as a senior or staff-level backend engineer
• Deep experience building API-driven systems using languages like Golang, Python, or similar
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and system design
• Experience owning and evolving backend architecture in production environments
• Track record of shipping complex, customer-facing or platform systems
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and diving into implementation details
• Experience working in fast-paced, startup or growth-stage environments
• Experience building platforms that support product teams (internal APIs, shared services, developer tooling) preferred
• Familiarity with data-intensive systems, search (OpenSearch), or risk/decisioning systems preferred
• Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments preferred

Pay

$200,000/year - $260,000/year + equity + benefits

Benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
• Flexible paid time off
• Regular company-wide in-person events
• Home office stipend, and more!

Corporate Values

• Follow Through
• Deep Understanding
• Whatever It Takes
• Do Something Smart