Engineering Manager - Core at kasheesh

About Kasheesh Kasheesh is the first platform to let you split purchases across multiple debit and credit cards—without needing a loan or a new line of credit. We help people access and manage their money in a way that fits how they live, earn, and spend today. We’re on a mission to give consumers more control and flexibility over how they fund everyday purchases. Whether it's combining your primary card with a fintech card or that gift card you forgot you had, Kasheesh makes it seamless to manage checkout your way. We’re a venture-backed team of fintech operators, builders, and designers reshaping what modern payments should look like. About the Role Kasheesh is reshaping how people manage payments and build healthy financial habits. As an Engineering Manager - Core, you’ll be a cornerstone of that mission. You’ll lead and grow a team of Ruby on Rails engineers while remaining deeply engaged in the technical direction of our platform. You’ll help scale systems, establish engineering best practices, and deliver secure, reliable, and user-friendly products. Engineering Managers at Kasheesh don’t just manage projects, they own outcomes. Responsibilities Technical Leadership: • Apply your deep knowledge of object oriented programming principles to create clean, maintainable abstractions. • Guide and review technical decisions around API design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. Lead & Grow the Team • Manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and career coaching. • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Support hiring, onboarding, and team scaling as the company grows. Execution & Delivery • Own delivery for core product initiatives, ensuring work is well-scoped, prioritized, and executed. • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to align engineering execution with company goals. • Help translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans. • Improve reliability, observability, and incident response practices. • Own and drive compliance requests and audit execution, partnering cross-functionally to ensure controls, evidence, and timelines are met. • Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and deployment processes. • Identify and drive initiatives to reduce technical debt, improve performance, and strengthen platform security. • Champion best practices across engineering and help set the standard for how we build and ship software. Competencies • Experience managing and developing software engineers, including senior-level engineers. • Strong understanding of Ruby on Rails architecture (MVC, ActiveRecord, Sidekiq) and how to build and scale production systems. • Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs, including well-structured endpoints, authentication/authorization, and consistent response patterns. • Solid grasp of data modeling and performance using PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord. Compensation The base salary range for this position is $180,000-258,000. Base salary is just one component of our compensation structure. All full-time employees also receive an equity compensation package. In addition to your base salary and equity, you will be eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, including one fully covered option for employees and their dependents. We also offer a 401(k) match, a monthly wellness stipend, basic life insurance, unlimited vacation time and weekly team lunches in our NYC office.   Location Our office is based New York City. Employees are expected to work from the office several times per week.    Interview Process While the interview process may vary by role, the typical framework includes: an application, an HR interview, a peer interview, a hiring manager interview, a technical assessment, and founder interviews.    We are a small team and every team member plays a meaningful role in shaping our mission and impact. We’re excited to meet candidates who are passionate about their work and ready to contribute to our mission. We look forward to hearing from you.