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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-harycki/, former Swift Capital Founder (acquired by PayPal in 2017 https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/paypal-acquires-swift-financial/). Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by industry pioneers from companies such as; PayPal, Square, and Cash App, we are well positioned to build the future of inclusive finance through cutting-edge technology and customer-centric solutions. OVERVIEW 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO 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. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE 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. REQUIREMENTS - 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 5 or more - 5+ years of hands-on software engineeri…