Engineering Manager, Synctera
$162-190k
CAD: $140,000 - $180,000 + Stock options
More information about location
Banking-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Banking-as-a-Service platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$162-190k
CAD: $140,000 - $180,000 + Stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be a leader in embedded banking and finance.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team
- If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry, grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on!
- Our ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with people management skills, taking initiative to look at the big picture and optimize for user experience across end-to-end workflows
- Note: We welcome candidates who may have held equivalent titles such as Lead Engineer, Technical Lead Manager, or other technical leadership roles
- 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
- 3-5 years of experience in a technical leadership role
- Background in the FinTech, finance, or banking industries, with significant experience in billing systems, revenue operations, or other complex financial workflows
- Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems
- Expertise in PostgreSQL with deep, hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and maintaining databases in production environments
- Experience designing and creating RESTful APIs, to be consumed by our frontend engineers and customers
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager on our Billing Platform team, you'll lead engineers building core capabilities that empower Operations and Finance teams to track billing, money movement, and revenue
- You'll drive both technical excellence and team growth while ensuring your team delivers scalable solutions that help FinTechs, banks, and your fellow Syncterans efficiently navigate the Synctera platform by optimizing workflows and enhancing operational tools
- This role shapes many of the most important interactions internal and external operational teams have with our user experience, so understanding the business context they operate within is critical for success
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, guiding technical decisions, career development, and professional growth
- Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional experiences across our financial systems and operations tooling
- Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for revenue tracking, billing systems, and other core workflows within the Synctera Console
- Continuously identify opportunities to integrate AI into processes and codebases to improve efficiency, scalability, and customer value
- Support hiring and team-building efforts as the organization grows
- Balance hands-on technical contributions with people management responsibilities
- Ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions while maintaining a healthy, happy team
- Collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Our platform is built in Go (for backend services) and React with Typescript (for the Synctera Console, our frontend)
- We’re built on top of Google Cloud Platform and typically use Postgres (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB), Redis (Cloud Memorystore), and Pub/Sub as our core application stack, with OpenAPI specifications being used to both document our API and be the foundation for inter-service communication
- Our infrastructure is predominantly a mixture of Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run (Google’s serverless compute platform), with Terraform orchestrating infrastructure, and tools like Argo facilitating deployments
Our take
Synctera is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that supplies users with the capabilities to build and launch successful FinTech apps or embedded banking products. By fast-tracking the work involved in finding a banking partner, and in discovering the right best-in-class tech, the platform frees businesses up to instead focus on their core operations.
Through the Synctera platform, businesses can build bank account and card programs, as well as incorporate services such as money movement and lending. Alongside this, the company also provides support and resources surrounding compliance and post-launch management, making it as simple as possible for clients to tap into the growing and fertile fintech market, and do it smartly.
The company faces extensive competition in a global market worth billions, but in helping to oil the wheels of collaboration and Fintech market access, it creates value for businesses across the board and stands well to reap the rewards. Recent funding is cited to fuel geographical expansion as well as grow its operations in Canada as it moves to add support for new credit, lending, and other banking use cases.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$15m
EARLY VC
Mar 2024
$18.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $94m
Company benefits
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents paid for by Synctera
- Employer contribution to a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Generous paid parental leave
- Fertility benefits
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Competitive salary
- Stock options granted to all full-time employees
- Spot bonus opportunities
- Flexible work environment
- Home office budget
- Monthly telecommunications stipend
- Company social outings
- Access to regional WeWork space for in-person collaboration
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Peter Hazlehurst
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Head of Uber Money. Founding Association Member of Libra Association, and previously CEO of The Perfect Sip - atop past positions at Google Payments, Postmates, and Nokia.
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