Engineering Manager/Fintech/onsite; NYC
Motion Recruitment3 months ago
New York, NY, United States
On-site
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)
Job Description
Position Overview
Engineering Manager / Fintech
Schedule: 5 days onsite (NYC)
Location: New York
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale our engineering team and shape the technical foundation of our platform for financial advisors. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership, people management, and close collaboration with the founders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and mentor a high‑performing engineering team.
- Drive execution across product areas to deliver high‑quality, fast-moving features.
- Set and refine engineering processes for planning, code quality, reviews, operations, and on‑call.
- Partner with founders on architecture, scaling, reliability, and long‑term technical strategy.
- Contribute to technical work when needed (architecture reviews, complex PRs, unblocking engineers).
- Foster a transparent, collaborative, and action‑oriented engineering culture.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally in fast‑growing or high‑performance tech environments.
- Strong technical background and sound judgment in ambiguous, fast‑changing settings.
- Excellent communicator who can clearly explain priorities, trade‑offs, and the “why” behind decisions.
- Comfortable making architectural decisions and balancing speed, reliability, performance, and cost.
- Enjoy working both with people and in the code.
- Based in NYC and able to work onsite in Chelsea 5 days/week.
- Motivated to help build a durable, high‑quality engineering culture.
Required Skills
Engineering Leadership
Technical Strategy
Team Mentoring
Financial Technology (Fintech)
Process Improvement
Code Quality Management
Architectural Decision-making
Scaling Engineering Teams