Engineering Manager, Balance and Ledger - Core

fanaticsfbg; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occasional travel

Job summary

fanaticsfbg is seeking a Backend Engineering Lead to guide a team building a shared ledger and a customer balance platform that tracks funds across business lines. You’ll own technical direction, ensure accuracy, auditability, and high availability while migrating existing wallets onto the common platform.

You will set roadmaps, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Finance, Legal, Compliance, Payments, and Product to align platforms with business needs, compliance requirements, and scale

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years leading software engineering teams in high-stakes environments.
• Understanding of transaction consistency and data modeling for accurate records.
• Experience with event-driven systems and message streaming (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience leading migrations of live, high-traffic systems with minimal customer impact.
• Strong communication across technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the team’s roadmap across platform capabilities, wallet migration, technical health, and operational work; make delivery plans and trade-offs clear.
• Guide engineers on architecture and design, and help resolve complex technical problems.
• Establish strong practices for security, reliability, observability, incident response, and on-call operations.
• Plan phased wallet migrations, including reconciliation, cutover, and rollback, to limit customer disruption.
• Work with Finance, Legal, Compliance, Payments, Product, and other engineering teams on fund attribution, settlement, audit needs, and ownership boundaries.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; communicate platform direction and decisions through roadmaps, design reviews, and incident reviews.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend engineering

Regulated systems

Security & reliability

Migration planning

Cross-functional

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Job description

Role overview

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for a shared ledger and customer balance platform that tracks funds across multiple business lines. The role combines people leadership and technical direction with responsibility for accuracy, auditability, availability, and a careful migration of existing wallets onto the common platform.

Responsibilities

• Set the team’s roadmap across platform capabilities, wallet migration, technical health, and operational work; make delivery plans and trade-offs clear.
• Guide engineers on architecture and design, and help resolve complex technical problems.
• Establish strong practices for security, reliability, observability, incident response, and on-call operations.
• Plan phased wallet migrations, including reconciliation, cutover, and rollback, to limit customer disruption.
• Work with Finance, Legal, Compliance, Payments, Product, and other engineering teams on fund attribution, settlement, chargebacks, audit needs, and ownership boundaries.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; communicate platform direction and decisions through roadmaps, design reviews, and incident reviews.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years managing software engineering teams, with delivery experience in secure, scalable, regulated, or otherwise high-stakes systems.
• Understanding of transaction consistency, idempotency, and data modeling for systems where records must remain accurate.
• Experience with event-driven systems and message streaming, such as Kafka.
• Experience leading migrations of live, high-traffic systems while limiting customer impact.Ability to combine strategic planning with enough technical depth to review designs and unblock engineers.
• Strong communication skills and experience working across technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
• Background with ledgers, wallets, balance services, payments, or other financial systems of record.
• Experience navigating regulatory questions and developing engineers.

Benefits and work setup

• Occasional travel to offices, conferences, meetings, or team events is expected.