Manager, Software Engineering at Earnin

About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY We're on a mission to reinvent the financial system and make it work for people. We are looking for an experienced professional to lead a full-stack engineering team comprising backend and mobile engineers. We have a top-tier team of engineers and leaders who have worked for prominent tech companies, including Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Uber, and Dropbox. As a hands-on Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to help design and develop some of our early-stage, innovative products (0-1). You will work with your cross-functional partners and team to shape the direction of these products and help make them significant drivers for the company. This position will be hybrid from our Mexico City office as part of our expanding site, with two days a week in the office required. EarnIn offers excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our headquarters in Mountain View. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Be a strong partner to the product and other engineering teams to drive improvements to business metrics and build new features. Examples include improving user acquisition metrics, cross-selling and upselling products, and enhancing the overall user experience. • Drive the design and implementation of new product areas and features. Break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code. • Guide your team through ambiguity and ensure technical excellence through rapid experimentation cycles. • Guide your team to strong execution — make pragmatic decisions and help teams launch MVPs quickly, iterating based on feedback. • Lead the team through frequent pivots and evolving priorities in a rapidly changing environment. • Recruit other exceptional engineers for your team and assist with recruiting efforts for various teams. • Be a mentor and coach for the engineers on your team. Help them advance their careers by enabling them to do their best work. • Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high-quality products. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR • Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years leading a small team in an IC leadership or EM capacity. • You're just as energized by diving into architecture, writing clean, scalable code, and solving challenging technical problems as you are by mentoring engineers, shaping team culture, and driving delivery. You know when to roll up your sleeves and when to empower others—and you're equally excited to do both. • You can work comfortably with a cross-functional team of PMs, Analysts, and mobile and back-end-focused engineers. • You have led a team that consistently produced high-quality output, including critical infrastructure. • You are a creative, tenacious problem solver with a get-it-done attitude • You tend to be the standard bearer who takes a great deal of pride in your work and can inspire others to rise to the occasion • You can create and maintain a positive, healthy team environment in which everyone is supported, encouraged, and meaningfully challenged to do great work #LI-Hybrid At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant. EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.