Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering
Imprint· Technology
Hybrid (New York City), Hybrid (San Francisco)$220k - $235k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior Engineering Manager responsible for real-time risk decisions, including authorization, fraud scoring, underwriting pipeline, and vendor integrations for risk, fraud, and payments in a hybrid, multi-location backend environment.
Responsibilities
- Own real-time authorization and fraud decisioning: system design, testing, operation and latency-sensitive decisions on card swipes
- Own the underwriting pipeline: evaluate applications across credit, fraud, identity, and compliance with evolving policies and data sources
- Make vendor decisions for production-ready integrations: fraud scoring, identity verification, bureau data; evaluate build-versus-buy with latency and cost in mind
- Prioritize across a wide cross-functional surface area (Credit, Fraud, Product, Compliance); define roadmap and scope with clear rationales to stakeholders
- Lead with technical credibility and leverage AI tools to assess codebases, feasibility, and design trade-offs in latency-sensitive systems
- Lead a strong team: inherit and grow a high-performing engineering team, delegate ownership across domains, maintain psychological safety, and implement effective hiring and development practices
- Drive delivery through the team: scope work, set priorities, and create conditions for engineers to perform at their best
- Utilize AI tools to stay close to technical work and maintain technical judgment in distributed systems
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management experience with a track record of building and retaining strong teams
- Experience managing through growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change
- Strong technical foundation with hands-on engagement or proficiency with modern AI tools
- Experience managing Staff-level ICs and helping engineers advance to senior roles
- Ownership of latency-sensitive, high-availability distributed systems in production with real-dollar impact
- Clear and direct written and verbal communication; ability to communicate with executives and engineers
- Ability to scope work, set priorities, and enable engineers to deliver effectively
- Experience using AI tools to investigate codebases, assess feasibility, and clarify asks (or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them)
- Experience in risk, fraud, underwriting, or payments is a plus
Skills
Required:Real-time risk decisioningUnderwriting pipelineVendor/integration decisionsCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:AI tools for engineering leadership
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Leading configured work computers of your choice
- Flexible paid time off
- Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including dependent coverage
- Additional health coverage includes One Medical; option for FSA
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
- Access to industry-leading technology across all business units
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Imprint
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Imprint Payments provides the technology powering co-branded credit card programs, with complete control over the experience, including rewards, marketing, and security.
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