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EarnIn · 1 day ago

Senior Manager, Engineering

EarnIn is a pioneer in earned wage access, focused on providing financial flexibility to those living paycheck to paycheck. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead teams in building platform capabilities that support multiple products, driving technical vision and execution excellence.

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Responsibilities

Own and evolve the platform roadmap, ensuring that foundational capabilities—services, frameworks, APIs, and shared infrastructure—can be leveraged by multiple product teams with speed, reliability, and consistency
Partner closely with senior leadership to align platform investments with long-term business strategy and product growth
Collaborate deeply with product, data, and engineering leaders to accelerate product development through reusable, scalable platform solutions
Champion platform adoption, enabling improvements in key business metrics such as user acquisition, activation, retention, and cross-product engagement
Provide senior-level architectural guidance and dive into the codebase when needed to unblock teams or clarify technical direction
Set engineering excellence standards across reliability, performance, security, and technical quality
Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering managers
Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Mentor leaders and engineers in technical decision-making, career development, and execution discipline
Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of stability, scalability, and observability, even as we move quickly to deliver new capabilities
Drive rigorous planning, prioritization, and execution to deliver impactful outcomes across multiple parallel workstreams
Represent the platform organization in cross-functional planning, company-wide engineering initiatives, and executive-level discussions
Help shape engineering culture and processes at EarnIn as we scale

Qualification

Software EngineeringPlatform DevelopmentDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementAPIsServicesTechnical LeadershipCommunication SkillsStrategic ThinkingMentoringProblem Solving

Required

5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams; experience managing multiple teams is a strong plus
Bachelor's degree or higher, or relevant industry experience
Proven success in building and scaling platform capabilities teams that deliver critical capabilities used broadly across an organization. Fintech experience is a strong plus
Deep technical background enabling you to guide engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and contribute to system design
Experience building large-scale distributed systems, APIs, services, and frameworks that support multiple product surfaces
A builder of healthy, high-performing teams where engineers feel supported, challenged, and inspired
Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align stakeholders across product, data, design, and engineering
A hands-on, pragmatic leader who balances strategic thinking with a strong bias for action
A technical leader who moved into management because they care deeply about helping people grow and enabling teams to achieve more together than they could individually

Benefits

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Company

EarnIn is an earnings management company that provides access to earned wages and financial wellness tools.

H1B Sponsorship

EarnIn has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (54)
2024 (18)
2023 (30)
2022 (29)
2021 (18)
2020 (35)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$415.1M
Key Investors
Cross River BankMitsubishi UFJ Financial GroupAndreessen Horowitz
2025-09-10Debt Financing· $150M
2025-09-02Debt Financing· $75M
2018-12-20Series C· $125M

Leadership Team

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Ram Palaniappan
CEO & Founder
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Ofer Shaked
CTO
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