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About the Role
Cardless is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of its product engineering teams. This is a critical hire to shape the team and the company's engineering practices as it scales towards becoming the global platform for next-generation credit card programs.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on payments, money movement, and financial infrastructure.
- Own the team's technical health, execution, and culture, including sprint planning and architectural direction.
- Act as a hands-on technical partner, contributing to system design and complex technical decisions while implementing frameworks for autonomous team operation.
- Collaborate with the Head of Engineering on hiring, technical roadmap, and organizational planning.
- Work with external partners, compliance, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into reliable systems.
- Bring clarity to ambiguous situations by defining problems, setting technical standards, and fostering a culture of rapid, safe development.
- Champion the use of AI tooling for developer productivity, system design, and product development.
Requirements
- Several years of engineering management experience, preferably leading backend teams building complex, high-scale systems.
- Strong technical depth, enabling credible engagement in system design discussions and architectural challenges.
- Experience in fintech, payments, credit/debit card infrastructure, or money movement, including an understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements.
- Proven track record of scaling teams and systems through people growth, process definition, and culture building.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, comfortable navigating ambiguity with product, compliance, operations, and external partners.
- High standards for code, communication, and outcomes.
- Excitement about AI's impact on software development and experience applying AI tools for productivity, design, or product enhancement.
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Backend Systems
- System Design
- Fintech
- Payments
- Money Movement
- Compliance
- Regulatory Understanding
- Team Scaling
- Process Definition
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- AI Tooling
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite (5 days a week)
Experience Level
- Engineering Management
Salary/Compensations
- $230,000-$300,000
Benefits
- Meaningful start-up equity
- 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
- 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
- Catered lunches and dinners
- $250/month commuter benefit
- Parental leave
- Team building events
- Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
- 401(k) plan
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- Cardless is building a credit card and loyalty platform for consumer businesses, powering programs for major companies like Coinbase, Bilt, Qatar Airways, and Alibaba.
- The company's goal is to become the global platform for next-generation credit card programs, enabling deeper partner integrations, higher reliability at scale, and allowing any consumer business to launch and operate a card program without building their own infrastructure.