Engineering Manager, Fintech Banking & Payments

AngelList, LLC; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Health benefits

Hybrid in-office model

Job summary

AngelList is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow Nova Foundations, the core money-movement and identity system for private markets. You’ll drive the roadmap with stakeholders, set technical vision, and stay hands-on to unblock the team.

The role reports to the Head of Nova Engineering and emphasizes shipping with reliability and security. You will grow the team from ~4 to 5–7 engineers, coordinate with product managers and engineering teams, and shape the architecture for bank

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering management experience including hiring, developing, and getting the best work from engineers.
• Experience with fintech, payments, banking, ledgers, KYC or compliance systems.
• Record of shipping and operating backend or platform systems with high reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own the results of Nova Foundations, including ledger, bank and payment integrations, KYC, and PII systems that everything at Nova depends on.
• Grow the team from ~4 engineers to 5-7 and help stand up the planned split into two focused teams: money movement and risk and compliance.
• Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and the Product engineering teams to make progress against the roadmap.
• Set a clear technical direction with the team's senior and staff engineers.
• Keep the team shipping with urgency while maintaining high standards for correctness, auditability, security, and reliability.
• Stay hands-on where it helps. Unblock the team and maintain enough technical context to ask good questions and make sound tradeoffs.

Skills

Engineering management

Fintech domain

Backend reliability

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Service-oriented arch

APIs & integrations

Job description

AngelList is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow Nova Foundations, the core money-movement and identity system for private markets. You’ll drive the roadmap with stakeholders, set technical vision, and stay hands-on to unblock the team.

The role reports to the Head of Nova Engineering and emphasizes shipping with reliability and security. You will grow the team from ~4 to 5–7 engineers, coordinate with product managers and engineering teams, and shape the architecture for bank