Engineering Manager, AI-Native Backend & Mobile

EarnIn; Mountain View (WY); Hybrid; USD 267,000 - 326,000; Full time

Job summary

EarnIn's Mountain View-based engineering team is seeking a senior leader to guide a full-stack group of backend and mobile engineers. You will own performance reviews, hiring, planning, and delivery of high-traffic services in a regulated, AI-enabled environment.

This hybrid role requires two days in the office per week; you will shape quarterly roadmaps with data-driven insights, and mentor staff-level engineers while advancing AI-native practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
• Experience with backend services and distributed systems at high volume.
• Experience delivering integrations with external partners.
• Experience shipping in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of backend and mobile engineers, including staff-level tech leads. Own the full performance cycle, from expectations and feedback to calibration, leveling, and development plans.
• Own hiring for the team: define roles, run interview loops, calibrate levels, and close candidates with full-stack range.
• Drive delivery: run the team's planning and sprint cadence, remove blockers, meet commitments on partner launches and platform work, and report status and risks to leadership.
• Partner with the GM to shape the quarterly roadmap: bring ideas grounded in member and partner data, size the ROI of competing work, and make scope trade-offs explicit.
• Measure the impact of what the team ships using experiments and business metrics such as conversion, partner revenue, and member engagement, and use the results to decide what to build next.
• Contribute to technical direction with staff engineers and architects, including design reviews, tech-debt prioritization, and build-vs-buy decisions across partner integrations, rewards, and ranking.
• Own operational health for a high-traffic service, including on-call, runbooks, ops reviews, and incident response.
• Coordinate your team's deliverables with Legal, Compliance, Finance, CX, and external partners on launches, and raise dependencies early.
• Champion AI-native engineering practices, including spec-driven development and agentic tooling, and coach engineers to use AI with rigor and judgment.

Skills

Backend engineering

Mobile engineering

Team leadership

Hiring experience

AI tooling

Education

CS degree

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

APIs/SDKs

Job description

EarnIn's Mountain View-based engineering team is seeking a senior leader to guide a full-stack group of backend and mobile engineers. You will own performance reviews, hiring, planning, and delivery of high-traffic services in a regulated, AI-enabled environment.

This hybrid role requires two days in the office per week; you will shape quarterly roadmaps with data-driven insights, and mentor staff-level engineers while advancing AI-native practices across the platform.