Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering

The role

The Senior Engineering Manager owns the systems that execute risk decisions, including real-time transaction authorization, fraud scoring, and the underwriting pipeline. You will lead a team of senior engineers to manage latency-sensitive, high-stakes distributed systems and prioritize work across cross-functional stakeholders.

What you will do

• Own real-time authorization and fraud decisioning systems
• Own the underwriting pipeline for credit, fraud, identity, and compliance checks
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and weigh build-versus-buy decisions
• Prioritize work across Credit, Fraud, Product, and Compliance stakeholders
• Define the roadmap and scope work directly
• Use AI tools to investigate codebases and assess work complexity
• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers
• Hand ICs ownership of entire domains
• Hold the bar on how work is scoped and delivered

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• Track record of building, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams
• Experience managing through rapid growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change
• Strong technical foundation with technical credibility
• Experience managing Staff-level ICs
• Experience helping senior engineers grow into bigger roles
• Owned latency-sensitive, high-availability distributed systems in production
• Clear and direct written and verbal communication
• Ability to drive delivery through the team
• Experience using AI tools to stay close to technical work, or enthusiasm to adopt them

Nice to have

• Experience in risk, fraud, underwriting, or payments

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• Access to One Medical
• Option to enroll in an FSA
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver
• 8 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents
• Access to industry-leading technology

About the company

Imprint helps brands grow customer lifetime value through modern credit programs and advanced payments infrastructure. They partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, and Shell to launch financial products.