Engineering Manager – AI-Native, High-Traffic Platform

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

Job summary

EarnIn's Mountain View team is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a full-stack group, including staff-level tech leads, and own performance cycles, hiring, and delivery.

You'll shape quarterly roadmaps using member and partner data, drive reliability for high-traffic services, and champion AI-native engineering across integrations, rewards, and ranking. This is a hybrid role with two in-office days per week.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, incl. 2+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
• Experience with backend services and distributed systems at high scale.
• Experience delivering integrations with external partners and APIs.
• Experience in regulated environments with Legal/Compliance collaboration.
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted engineering tools for planning and coding.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of backend and mobile engineers; own performance cycles.
• Own hiring: define roles, run interview loops, calibrate levels, close candidates.
• Drive delivery: plan sprints, remove blockers, ensure partner launches and platform work.
• Shape quarterly roadmaps using member/partner data; size ROI and make scope trade-offs.
• Measure impact via experiments and business metrics; decide what to build next.
• Contribute to technical direction with staff engineers and architects, manage tech debt.
• Own operational health for a high-traffic service; on-call, runbooks, incident response.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Finance, CX, and partners on launches.

Skills

Backend services

Distributed systems

AI-assisted tooling

Leadership & hiring

Mobile engineering

Roadmap & planning

Education

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

EarnIn's Mountain View team is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a full-stack group, including staff-level tech leads, and own performance cycles, hiring, and delivery.

You'll shape quarterly roadmaps using member and partner data, drive reliability for high-traffic services, and champion AI-native engineering across integrations, rewards, and ranking. This is a hybrid role with two in-office days per week.