Engineering Manager Tech Lead

You lead a hands-on engineering team building a money-movement product. You own the architecture, write and ship critical production code, hire and develop engineers, establish engineering and delivery standards, and drive reliability, observability, incident response, and secure agentic development practices.

Responsibilities

• Write and ship production code
• Own the system architecture across services, money paths, data, infrastructure, and settlement
• Hire and onboard engineers
• Develop a senior engineering team
• Set engineering, testing, review, and correctness standards
• Establish agentic development practices
• Own the delivery cadence and release process
• Manage the backlog and lead time to production
• Establish production alerting and on-call operations
• Create and test runbooks
• Lead incident response
• Set backend, API, authentication, platform, reliability, and mobile engineering standards

Requirements

• Lead engineering for a consumer money product with real financial stakes
• Lead a small team of approximately 3 to 8 engineers while shipping code
• Ship production code within the last year
• Own production operations for a money system
• Manage on-call, incidents, observability, secrets, and keys
• Integrate regulated financial rails
• Lead agile delivery using sprints or kanban
• Use test-driven and behavior-driven development
• Use agentic development safely
• Know TypeScript or Node and backend distributed systems
• Understand idempotency, reconciliation, retries, and consistency under partial failure
• Know Postgres, event-driven services, and API authentication
• Understand Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability
• Review native iOS work and mobile-backend contracts