Engineering Manager, Earnest
$244-275k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + RSUs
Student loan provider
Open for applications
Student loan provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$244-275k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + RSUs
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of Software Development experience, with at least 3 years in a formal leadership or management role within a Product Development organization
- Technical Depth: You have a strong foundation in full-stack engineering patterns. You are able to code and can dive deep into technical and architectural discussions, even if you are no longer an individual contributor
- B2C Product Focus: Deep experience building and scaling customer-facing products within high-growth, high-scale B2C environments
- Architectural Intuition: You have experience shaping and guiding complex architectures, with a focus on system performance, scalability, and navigating zero-to-one product ambiguity
- Effective Communicator: You have a proven ability to translate complex technical gaps into clear, actionable recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders
- Mentor Mindset: You enjoy coaching engineers through technical hurdles and helping them grow into senior and staff-level roles
- We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for
What the job involves
- Drive Proactive Execution: Move beyond status reporting to deliver data-driven action plans. You will own the end-to-end delivery of your team's roadmap, identifying and communicating technical trade-offs to ensure the team hits key business milestones
- Modernize the Application Architecture: Lead the strategic effort to reduce complexity in our primary application flows. You will partner with Staff and Senior Engineers to implement a modular, high-observability architecture that enables smaller, faster, and safer product iterations
- Technical Mentorship & Code Quality: Raise the technical bar for the team by participating in high-level code reviews and architectural design sessions. While you won't be in the codebase daily, you will be responsible for ensuring the team adheres to modern best practices in performance, security, and scalability. You will likely read and review a lot of code, but write only outside of the critical path
- Shatter Silos & Drive Ownership: Actively partner across multi-functional boundaries including Product, Design, and Operations. You will look beyond your immediate lane to identify systemic challenges, break down silos, and drive proactive ownership across teams
- Strategic Problem Solver: Navigate the project management Iron Triangle by balancing scope, time, and quality to deliver the best outcome for the business
Our take
Earnest offers student loan refinancing and personal loan products. It looks at thousands of data points such as education, saving patterns, investments, and career trajectory to issue a unique credit score, which can prove a lifeline for students who may otherwise struggle to qualify for loan refinancing.
For the portion of student debtors with low credit scores, Earnest is one of a few scant options. Borrowers can choose their own loan terms to fund up to the full cost of their education, and there are no origination, application, or late fees.
Earnest has grown from distributing $8M loans in its first year of business to an impressive total $18.5 billion in student loans refinanced, and has served upwards of 200,000 people. With student loans representing such a huge sector of lending, there should be plenty of room for Earnest to continue expanding in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2017
$20m
SERIES C
Nov 2015
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127m
Company benefits
- Remote-first flexibility: Create your workspace at home or anywhere you feel the most successful
- Remote work stipends: An initial $1000 for supplies plus $100 monthly for phone and internet
- Tuition reimbursement & more: Up to $5,250 for job-related courses or degrees
- $1000 annual travel perk: Our gift to you—all your hard work deserves a vacation
- Robust 401K package: We match dollar-for-dollar contributions up to 5% eligible compensation
- No meeting Tuesdays: A chance to go heads down on your work, uninterrupted
- Annual company-wide offsites: From go-karting in Salt Lake City to karaokeing in Las Vegas
- Generous parental leave: Up to 12 weeks of 100% paid leave regardless of parental role
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
David Green
(CEO)Previously Co-Founder of Poplar Finance, Vice President of SitusAMC and COO of the Kellogg Collection.
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