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Engineering Manager

Cardless· Engineering
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San Francisco$230k - $300kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a product engineering team at Cardless, focusing on payments, money movement, and financial infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on system design, scale, collaboration with cross-functional partners, and responsible for technical health and execution.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team working at the intersection of payments, money movement, and financial infrastructure.
  • Own the technical health, execution, and culture of your team — from sprint planning to architectural direction.
  • Be a hands-on technical partner: go deep on system design and complex technical decisions when it matters, while also stepping back to implement frameworks and processes that help the team operate autonomously at scale.
  • Partner closely with the Head of Engineering on hiring strategy, technical roadmap, and organizational planning.
  • Work directly with external partners, compliance, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex requirements into reliable, high-quality systems.
  • Bring clarity to ambiguous situations — define the right problems, set technical standards, and build a team that can move fast without breaking things that matter.
  • Champion the thoughtful use of AI tooling across the team — from developer productivity to how we design and build systems — and help set the standard for how engineering at Cardless evolves alongside these tools.

Qualifications

  • Several years of engineering management experience, ideally leading backend teams building complex, high-scale systems.
  • Strong technical depth — you can credibly engage in system design discussions, challenge architectural decisions, and earn the trust of senior engineers.
  • Experience in fintech, payments, credit or debit card infrastructure, or money movement. You understand the compliance and regulatory realities of building in this space.
  • A track record of scaling teams as well as systems — you've grown people, defined processes, and built cultures that ship.
  • Strong cross-functional instincts. You're comfortable navigating ambiguity alongside product, compliance, operations, and external partners.
  • High standards and a commitment to quality — in code, in communication, and in outcomes.
  • Excitement about how AI is reshaping software development and a track record of putting these tools to work — whether for developer productivity, system design, or building smarter products.

Skills

Required:Backend system designCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Meaningful Start-up equity
  • 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
  • 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
  • Catered lunches
  • $250/month Commuter benefit
  • Parental leave
  • Team building events & happy hours
  • Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
  • Apple equipment
  • 401k plan
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cardless

Build credit into your product experience.

Build credit into your product experience. Run it end to end with modular APIs, pre-built components, analytics, and full-service infrastructure.

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