Engineering Manager

Cleo; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Mental health support

Sabbatical after four years

Learning platform

Retirement contributions

Location-specific leave

Job summary

Cleo is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple product squads. You will partner with Product and technical leadership to drive delivery, team health and longer‑term strategy.

You will mentor engineers, own delivery outcomes, and shape priorities with a focus on responsible, scalable growth for Cleo’s AI-enabled financial assistant platform.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and driving performance
• Solid Rails depth to guide engineers in production environments
• Experience delivering across multiple squads with strategic priorities
• Track record of hiring, coaching and developing engineers
• Strong technical judgment and ability to enable decisions without owning every call
• Experience partnering with product and tech leadership to align on priorities
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience building healthy, inclusive, high-performing teams
• Alignment with company values and engineering principles

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop engineers across multiple squads, enabling growth and high performance
• Own team health, performance and engagement through regular 1:1s and clear feedback
• Partner with Product, Tech Leads, and Staff Engineers to shape priorities and strategy
• Own delivery outcomes across squads, remove blockers, keep focus on high-impact work
• Translate company priorities into clear goals and direction for teams
• Uphold engineering principles while enabling strong technical decision-making
• Hire and retain engineers, fostering inclusive teams
• Improve cross-team collaboration across Engineering, Product and other disciplines
• Drive learning, development and ownership across the org

Skills

Team leadership

Ruby on Rails

Delivery ownership

Hiring and coaching

Communication

Stakeholder management

Technical judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Most money apps talk at you. Cleo talks back

We’re not building another finance app. We’re building the world’s first AI financial assistant, one that actually understands your money and makes you better at it, and we’re changing the world’s relationship with money in the process For everyone, whatever their background or balance.

The proof: profitable, fast-growing, a unicorn with over $300M in ARR, and millions of people who now feel differently about their money.

We love original thinkers who challenge the status quo. We move fast, tell the truth, and there’s nowhere to hide from good work here. If that excites you more than it scares you, you’ll fit right in.

Follow us on LinkedIn for new features and the occasional roast

Meet The Team

Here at Cleo, we have ~200 Engineers organised into Pillars. Our stack spans a Ruby on Rails monolith, a single React Native (TypeScript) app frontend, Python for machine learning services, and PostgreSQL, all hosted on AWS and shipped through Kubernetes - backend goes out multiple times a week, app releases to Google and Apple at least weekly. To thrive here, our engineers proactively use our Engineering Principles to guide daily decisions, take ownership of problems beyond their own squad to drive broader impact, and actively drive their own learning, development, and growth.

About the role

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple product squads. You’ll partner closely with Product and technical leadership to drive delivery, team health and longer‑term strategy.

• Lead, coach and develop engineers across multiple squads, creating an environment where people can grow and do their best work

• Own team health, performance and engagement through regular 1:1s, clear feedback and development conversations

• Partner with Product Managers, Tech Leads, TLMs and Staff Engineers to shape priorities, planning and strategy

• Own delivery and outcomes across your squads, keeping teams focused on the highest‑impact work and removing blockers

• Translate broader company and product priorities into clear goals and direction for your teams

• Enable strong technical decision‑making across our Ruby on Rails environment, empowering senior engineers while upholding our engineering principles and standards

• Hire and retain great engineers, building healthy, inclusive and high‑performing teams

• Improve how teams work together, navigating dependencies and strengthening collaboration across Engineering, Product and other disciplines

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience leading and developing engineering teams, including performance, growth and engagement

• Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and the technical depth to effectively lead engineers in a production Rails environment

• Experience owning delivery and outcomes across multiple squads, balancing immediate priorities with longer‑term strategy

• A track record of hiring, coaching and developing engineers at different stages of their careers

• Strong technical judgement and the ability to enable great technical decisions without needing to make every technical call yourself

• Experience partnering with Product and technical leadership to align on priorities, direction and delivery

• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to create alignment and unblock teams

• A track record of building healthy, inclusive and high‑performing teams

• Alignment with company values and engineering principles,

What we offer

We offer benefits package built to support you in and out of work.

Benefits vary by country and include meaningful equity, comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, mental health support, a paid one‑month sabbatical after four years, a learning and development platform, pension or retirement contributions, and location‑specific leave entitlements.

• meaningful equity
• comprehensive health
• dental and vision insurance
• mental health support
• a paid one‑month sabbatical after four years
• a learning and development platform
• pension or retirement contributions
• location‑specific leave entitlements

For the full breakdown on what’s available in your location, visit our Candidate Hub

What Matters

Cleo’s mission is to change the world’s relationship with money. We can’t do that without building a brilliant, genuinely diverse team - and making sure our hiring process gives everyone a fair shot, running a fair and transparent recruitment process in which every candidate is considered on their metris.

We’re glad to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process. If there’s anything we can do to support you in showing us your best, please let your recruiter or one of the team know.

We may use AI-assisted tools during the recruitment process to take support the team in different ways like taking notes or referring back to conversations. They do not replace the team and all applications are reviewed by a Cleo employee thoroughly!