Engineering Manager, Accounting & Reconciliation

Dave vs. Goliath. We’re Dave.

Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. It is redefining the financial landscape by leveraging technology to create an affordable, transparent, and user-centric access to liquidity for millions of Americans. As a leading innovator in the U.S. financial services sector, Dave’s digital financial platform offers products designed to meet the credit needs of those underserved by traditional financial institutions.

Dave’s offerings include its flagship Extra Cash product, providing members up to $500 in short-term advances within minutes. The company is on track to launch several new product offerings in 2026, including a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option.

Dave is focused on serving Americans who are financially vulnerable or living paycheck to paycheck. Dave is leading the charge in creating a new era of credit products that prioritizes speed, affordability, and accessibility, making it the go-to financial partner for those who need it most.

Dave is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Ledger & Reconciliation Platform team— the systems that ensure every dollar moving through Dave is correct, fully accounted for, and auditable end-to-end.

You’ll lead a team building Dave’s internal financial source of truth from the ground up. This is a greenfield effort to replace external systems with a proprietary ledger and reconciliation platform that supports all current and future products.

This work sits at the intersection of distributed systems and real-world financial operations, where correctness is non-negotiable. You’ll partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Product, and Data to translate how money actually moves into systems that are deterministic, traceable, and built to stand up to audit.

Not everything is fully defined—you’ll help shape the foundation.

• Lead and grow a small, high-leverage team building ledger systems and reconciliation pipelines from the ground up
• Define architecture that prioritizes correctness, idempotency, and auditability over short-term convenience
• Design and evolve double-entry ledger models, transaction life cycles, and reconciliation workflows across multiple products
• Build systems that reconcile internal state with external partners (banks, processors, networks) with high confidence
• Partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Product, and Data Engineering to encode financial rules and controls directly into system design
• Establish engineering practices focused on data integrity, observability, and reliable recovery

Your team owns the integrity of Dave’s financial systems. The systems you build determine whether every transaction can be trusted, explained, and audited—supporting regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and member trust across all products.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 1.5+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience operating in environments where correctness is non-negotiable (e.g., payments, banking, lending, or financial infrastructure)
• Strong understanding of data correctness, transactional integrity, and consistency models
• Experience designing systems where accuracy and auditability are first-order concerns
• Familiarity with distributed systems challenges (idempotency, ordering, failure recovery, eventual consistency)
• Experience partnering with Accounting, Finance, or similar stakeholders to translate domain requirements into technical systems
• Track record of building and developing high-performing teams

• Hands‑on experience with ledger systems, reconciliation infrastructure, or accounting platforms
• Background in fintech or financial services
• Experience implementing double-entry accounting models in software
• Exposure to audit, compliance, or financial reporting systems
• Familiarity with Type Script (Node.js), MySQL, GCP;
  Python experience is a plus

You take responsibility for outcomes, not just deliverables. You’ve worked in environments where getting the numbers right isn’t optional, and you bring that mindset…