Engineering Manager
About the role
Engineering Manager at Karat Financial, a fintech building a bank for digital creators to manage revenues, expenses, savings, credit, and banking. Lead from the front, design systems, write code, ship features, and shape the engineering culture and product strategy for a fintech startup based in Los Angeles, CA.
Responsibilities
- Lead by example — writing production code, owning system design decisions, and setting technical standards.
- Partner with product, design, and operations to define and ship high-impact features.
- Build and mentor a small, distributed, high-performing engineering team with a culture of collaboration and accountability.
- Establish best practices around system design, testing, security, and deployment.
- Drive alignment across engineering and product on priorities, tradeoffs, and execution.
- Create a technical roadmap that balances immediate business needs with long-term scalability.
- Help recruit, onboard, and develop engineers who thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Act as a thought partner to leadership on product strategy, technical architecture, and company growth.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2–3 years in a leadership or managing role.
- Proven ability to ship high-quality products end-to-end — from system design to launch.
- Strong product sense: you care deeply about user experience and business outcomes, not just code quality.
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and operations teams.
- Experience in system design, architecture, and scaling modern web applications.
- Strong communication skills — able to distill technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations.
- Prior product management experience (or strong desire to flex into product responsibilities) is a big plus.
- Fintech or payments experience is a plus, but not required.
- Working in an early stage startup experience is a plus, but not required.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a 'get shit done' mentality.
Skills
About Karat Financial
Better financial services for creators
We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances. Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders. They’re also businesses. That means they have business needs—managing revenues, expenses, savings, credit, banking. We’re building products that help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating.
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