Manager of Software Engineering; Loans Lifecycle

• The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a highly regulated industry’s real-world accounting controls
• We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial interaction we have both with our consumers and institutional finance partners
• Ledger Engineering works with our finance partners to support everything from closing our monthly books to annual audits
• We bridge the technical gap between data, strategy, and the thorough level of accounting detail required to operate a publicly-traded company
• Outside of accounting, we partner with the Capital Markets team to help open our business to investors who require a similar forensic level of reporting
• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

• Compensation:
  We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
• Spending Wallets:
  Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
• Supportive Communities:
  Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
• Remote-first Workforce:
  If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
• Generous Time Off:
  Take the time you need when life happens
• Health Benefits:
  
  Get a plan that fits your needs
• Mental Healthcare:
  Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
• Parental Leave:
  Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
• Away Days:
  We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
• Learning & Development:
  Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth

You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin, and 2+ years of experience managing a software team

You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

You understand how to manage a high performance team, delivering successfully by growing the team, coaching engineers, and aligning stakeholders

You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical