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Job Description
Job Description
Engineering Manager – Fintech Startup (Series A)
Location : Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)
Industry : Fintech | Venture-Backed | Rapid Growth
Job Type : Full-Time | On-Site / Hybrid
About the Company
Our client is a Series A, venture-backed fintech startup at the forefront of modernizing financial services. With a mission to revolutionize the way businesses and consumers interact with financial products, they are scaling rapidly and building a world-class engineering team to tackle complex, high-impact challenges.
Backed by top-tier investors, this is an opportunity to be a foundational engineering leader in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager , you’ll lead a team of talented engineers in designing, building, and scaling the company’s core platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver robust, scalable fintech solutions.
This is a high-impact position for someone who thrives in a startup environment, enjoys solving technical challenges, and is excited to help shape the future of a fast-growing company.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
- Own and drive technical initiatives, architecture decisions, and best practices to scale the fintech platform.
- Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.
- Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent as the company scales.
- Balance hands-on coding (as needed) with strategic leadership.
- Implement best practices for software development, including CI / CD, security, and performance optimization.
- Ensure the team delivers on critical projects in a fast-moving startup environment.
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