Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a product engineering team working on payments, money movement, and financial infrastructure. You will own technical health, execution, and culture while partnering with the Head of Engineering on strategy and roadmap.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team
• Own technical health, execution, and culture
• Be a hands-on technical partner for system design and technical decisions
• Implement frameworks and processes for autonomous operation
• Partner with the Head of Engineering on hiring, roadmap, and planning
• Work with external partners, compliance, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Define problems and set technical standards
• Champion the use of AI tooling across the team

Required qualifications

• Several years of engineering management experience
• Experience leading backend teams building complex, high-scale systems
• Strong technical depth in system design and architecture
• Experience in fintech, payments, credit or debit card infrastructure, or money movement
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory realities in fintech
• Track record of scaling teams and systems
• Strong cross-functional instincts
• High standards and a commitment to quality
• Excitement about how AI is reshaping software development and a track record of using these tools

Nice to have

• ideally leading backend teams building complex, high-scale systems

Benefits

• Meaningful Start-up equity
• 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
• 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
• Catered lunches
• $250/month Commuter benefit
• Parental leave
• Team building events & happy hours
• Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
• Apple equipment
• 401k plan

About the company

Cardless builds infrastructure for companies to design, build, and launch financial products. The team is over 70 people and is scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.