Engineering Manager: Lead a Full-Stack FinTech Team

Polluxa, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5-8 full‑stack engineers building financial tools for the next generation. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management and foster a culture of engineering excellence.

Youll mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, and drive process improvements, CI/CD, and scalable development practices while shipping high‑quality products.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering management experience or 5+ years as a senior engineer transitioning into management.
• Deep technical expertise in full-stack development (ideally TypeScript).
• Proven track record of improving code quality and establishing development standards.
• Strong people management skills, ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineers at various levels.
• Experience driving process improvements and building scalable development practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, providing career growth, technical guidance, and constructive feedback.
• Maintain technical credibility by staying hand-on, participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and occasional feature development to stay current with the stack.
• Drive code quality through establishing and enforcing best practices, conducting thorough PR reviews, and fostering a culture of ownership and excellence.
• Champion process improvement by identifying bottlenecks, proposing solutions, and refining development workflows (testing strategy, CI/CD, deployment processes).
• Enable developers by removing blockers, advocating for their growth, and creating psychological safety for innovation and experimentation.
• Collaborate across product and design to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, and timely delivery of complex features.
• Contribute strategically to architectural decisions and technical direction alongside your team.
• Build and scale the team as needed, participating in hiring and onboarding.
• Support the team through on-call rotations, driving incident remediation, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement from incidents.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

People management

Code reviews

Architecture discussions

Hiring & onboarding

On-call rotations

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

React Native

React

TypeScript

NestJS

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

Vitest

Jest

Detox

GitHub Actions

AWS

Dynatrace

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5-8 full‑stack engineers building financial tools for the next generation. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management and foster a culture of engineering excellence.

Youll mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, and drive process improvements, CI/CD, and scalable development practices while shipping high‑quality products.