Engineering Manager
Required skills
- AI-native
- spec-driven development
- agentic tooling
- distributed systems
- customer-facing services
- high request volume
- external partner integrations
- third-party APIs
- SDKs
- regulated environment
Nice to have
- marketplaces
- rewards
- loyalty
- ad-tech
- payments
- experimentation
Role summary
EarnIn is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a full-stack team focused on their fast-growing marketplace business unit. This role involves leading, coaching, and growing backend and mobile engineers, including staff-level tech leads. The manager will own the performance cycle, hiring, and team delivery, driving planning and sprint cadence to meet commitments on partner launches and platform work. A key aspect is partnering with the GM to shape the quarterly roadmap using member and partner data, and measuring impact through experiments and business metrics. The role also contributes to technical direction, owns operational health for high-traffic services, and champions AI-native engineering practices. This hybrid position in Mountain View requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing a team.
ABOUT EARNIN
As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for people living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and excited to bring on world-class talent to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
EarnIn is becoming an AI-native company, embedding AI agents into how we build, analyze, and operate across every function. Teams use AI Agents to move from ideas to execution faster. By letting agents handle repetitive tasks, our people can focus on judgment, creativity, and hard problems. We pair this experimentation with the strict review and security guardrails our regulated financial environment requires, always keeping a focus on privacy and the people who rely on our products.
As a company, we are becoming AI-native, and we encourage you to use AI tools throughout much of your interview process. If you use AI during the live interview, just say so; a quick, natural mention of how it helped and why you are using it is all we need. What we're evaluating is your judgment, reasoning, and ability to own and defend your work, not whether AI was involved. Some rounds, particularly those focused on your career history and past experiences, will not allow the use of AI, and we'll let you know of those in advance. When in doubt, ask your recruiter or interviewer directly.
POSITION SUMMARYEarnIn's marketplace business unit is focused on helping members earn rewards, save on everyday spending, and build credit through products like Rent Reporting. It is one of our fastest-growing revenue lines, and its platform for partner integrations, rewards, and ranking is reused across the company. You'll lead a full-stack team including staff-level tech leads that pioneered AI-native, spec-driven development at EarnIn.
You’ll bring a product-minded approach, using member and partner data to shape what the team builds, while helping partners launch faster and keeping high-traffic, critical-path services reliable.
The Mountain View base salary range for this full-time position is $266,793-$326,081, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. This hybrid position in Mountain View requires 2 days of in-office work per week.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.
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