Senior Engineering Manager

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.

Founded in 2019 by Ed Harycki, former Swift Capital Founder (acquired by Pay Pal in 2017). Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by industry pioneers from companies such as;
Pay Pal, Square, and Cash App, we are well positioned to build the future of inclusive finance through cutting-edge technology and customer-centric solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager for the backend team, you will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and maintaining systems that power our financial products. This is a hybrid technical leadership role: you'll set technical direction, stay hands-on, and grow the people on your team — not just manage delivery from a distance. You'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our foundational infrastructure and product architecture, with a clear path to greater scope as you and the team grow.

This is a rare chance to join a fast-growing fintech startup where your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on both the company and the financial well-being of our users.

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.

We're looking for someone who treats the role the way our strongest engineering managers do:

• Bias toward building, not just overseeing. You'd rather write the code and review the design than just delegate it — hands-on work is a current habit, not a résumé line from a few years ago.

• Low ego, high initiative. You notice broken processes and fix or flag them without being asked — you don't wait for permission to make things better.

• Constructive with peers. You're comfortable challenging other engineering leads directly when something isn't working, not just within your own team.

• All-in. This is a high-ownership, fast-paced environment, and we're looking for someone who wants that kind of intensity, not someone weighing it against a slower-paced alternative.

• 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…