Engineering Manager, Privacy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, taking responsibility for performance, growth, and overall team well-being.

• Remain actively involved, dedicating approximately one-third of your time to coding, reviewing designs, and assisting the team in overcoming obstacles.

• Ensure the Privacy.com product operates with high reliability and accuracy, particularly in card processing.

• Manage long-term projects from inception to launch, collaborating with engineers on architectural decisions while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned.

• Collaborate closely with Product and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements early on, ensuring engineering efforts are focused on high-impact tasks.

• Make strategic trade-offs between long-term platform investments and immediate product benefits.

• Elevate standards for operational excellence, including observability, incident response, and practical reliability enhancements.

• Spearhead initiatives to enhance systems, processes, and documentation to enable swift onboarding for new team members.

• Recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent.

• Engage in and contribute to the evolution of the team’s on-call rotation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing and developing engineers, encompassing coaching, providing feedback, and hiring.

• Strong technical judgment and system design expertise, particularly in distributed systems and high-reliability production services.

• Ability to stay closely connected to the work, including coding, reviewing designs, and unblocking the team.

• Experience in delivering and operating production services, with a focus on measurable reliability and practical iteration.

• Background in leading a team through substantial, multi-month initiatives while balancing long-term investments with immediate delivery goals.

• Proficiency in NodeJS and AWS (or closely related technologies), with a capacity to quickly adapt to unfamiliar stacks.

• Excellent cross-functional communication abilities, ensuring team alignment under time constraints.

• A growth mindset with a continuous desire for learning and improvement.

• Interest in fintech and payments is preferred.

• Candidates must reside in the United States.

• Visa sponsorship or assistance is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• 4-week fully paid sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary).

• Work from anywhere: option to work remotely from anywhere in the world for 4 weeks each year.

• 3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA contribution match.

• 401(k) match.

• Voluntary life insurance and short-term/long-term disability coverage.

• Equity.