Engineering Manager, Fintech Payments & Banking

Better Tomorrow Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

AngelList in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Nova Foundations, the core money-movement and identity system for private markets. This hands-on, player-coach role focuses on growing the team while driving the roadmap and setting the technical direction.

You will report to the Head of Nova Engineering and collaborate with product managers and other engineers to deliver high-assurance backend systems and industry-leading reliability.

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, or another high-stakes domain.
• A record of shipping and operating backend or platform systems where correctness and reliability are non-negotiable.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and service-oriented systems, or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Good startup judgment. You're comfortable with ambiguity and add enough process to help the team without over-building it.

Responsibilities

• Own the results of Nova Foundations, including the 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

Startup judgment

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Service-oriented systems

Job description

AngelList in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Nova Foundations, the core money-movement and identity system for private markets. This hands-on, player-coach role focuses on growing the team while driving the roadmap and setting the technical direction.

You will report to the Head of Nova Engineering and collaborate with product managers and other engineers to deliver high-assurance backend systems and industry-leading reliability.