Benepass

Engineering Manager

U.S Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will lead a team of backend engineers on Core Services including the ledger, decisioning, and HRIS integrations. You will own people, execution, and outcomes for your slice of the team while staying hands-on to review designs and debug systems.

What you will do

  • Manage ~4–6 engineers to start
  • Run 1:1s focused on growth and expectations
  • Hire, onboard, and level the team
  • Coach project leads on technical approach and releases
  • Translate company priorities into a sequenced plan
  • Protect operational load including production health and incidents
  • Lead design reviews and champion simple patterns
  • Jump into code, prototypes, or production debugging when needed
  • Partner with Client Apps, Platform, Customer Engineering, Product, and Ops
  • Use AI heavily in daily workflows for coding, debugging, and planning

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering
  • 2+ years leading teams of ~3–8 engineers (or equivalent scope)
  • Proven ability to lead design reviews, enforce engineering standards, and prototype in Python/Django (or a comparable backend stack)
  • Experience mentoring engineers through 1:1s, setting growth goals, handling performance issues, and hiring
  • Track record of shipping on commitments and running a healthy SDLC
  • Heavy personal use of AI in coding, debugging, planning, writing, and operating a team

Nice to have

  • Experience in fintech, payments, card issuing, wallets, or benefits platforms
  • Experience owning high-integrity backend systems
  • Experience splitting or scaling a team
  • Proven ability to set and use team KPIs
  • Experience evaluating tools (CI/CD, observability)
  • Strong background in performance management

Benefits

  • 95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision
  • $250 WFH setup (one time)
  • $500/year Learning & Development Benefit
  • $150/month cell phone + internet
  • $100/month Wellness
  • $100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit
  • Several team onsites a year
  • Flexible PTO

About the company

Benepass is a fintech platform that helps companies tailor benefits to the unique needs of their workforce. The company is backed by leading investors and has raised approximately $75 million in equity capital.