Full Stack Engineering Manager, Avant
$155-195k
+ Annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Personal credit FinTech
Job no longer available
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$155-195k
+ Annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To move financial lives forward.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a high degree of technical proficiency, strong communication skills, and a passion for helping teams thrive and achieve success
- 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1–3 years in leadership, mentorship, or formal people management roles
- Proven track record leading a full-stack team delivering back-end services and front-end applications
- Proficiency in Ruby, Python, or similar object-oriented languages and hands-on experience with front-end frameworks like React
- Solid understanding of data modeling, database migrations, and scaling systems with large datasets
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and modern cloud-native practices
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Strong communication skills enable the tailoring of technical updates to both engineering and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments, including backlog refinement, planning, and delivery ceremonies
- With a people-first mindset, you prioritize team health, individual growth, and fostering a psychologically safe environment
- With a strategic yet pragmatic approach to engineering management, you can make and communicate tradeoffs that serve product and platform goals
What the job involves
- Avant seeks a results-oriented Engineering Manager (Full Stack) to lead a product-focused squad
- This role is ideal for a mature engineer who thrives in a blended environment, spending 50–75% of their time writing code, reviewing pull requests, and solving technical problems alongside the team while also driving execution, mentoring talent, and shaping technical strategy
- You’ll be accountable for delivering complex features, fostering a collaborative team environment, and promoting engineering excellence through your example and leadership
- Lead an agile team responsible for end-to-end delivery within a focused product area
- Actively contribute to the codebase via pair programming, writing features, fixing bugs, and participating in code reviews while balancing this hands-on work with people leadership responsibilities
- Partner with product managers, UX designers, and business stakeholders to define clear priorities, set goals, and align the team’s work with broader organizational objectives
- Balance long-term technical investments with near-term feature delivery to ensure sustained team velocity and product impact
- Drive the execution of complex features by guiding implementation decisions, resolving blockers, and fostering accountability
- Own and support the team’s systems in a high-volume, customer-facing production environment, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability
- Collaborate with principal and senior engineers to influence technical direction, ensure sound architectural choices, and maintain code quality
- Coach and directly supervise individual contributors, providing performance feedback, career development support, and technical mentorship
- Foster the adoption and evolution of Avant’s engineering culture through consistent communication, modeling best practices, and celebrating team wins
- Communicate team progress and challenges to leadership, providing clarity and transparency
- Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives, process tuning, and cross-functional collaboration
- Support recruiting and onboarding efforts to build and scale high-performing teams
Our take
Many Americans with below average credit scores are caught in a bind: they're unable to improve their score, and simultaneously cannot access traditional loans. Avant's alternative is to offer credit options that are powered by machine learning and based upon a large database that helps to manage risk.
For its users, the company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It has issued over $8 billion in loans to date, and has also expanded its business through the acquisitions of ReadyForZero in 2015 and Zero Financial in 2021.
This expansion has enabled Avant to reach towards its goal of offering a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits. Although there are many FinTechs looking at ways to remove the barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans, this expansion to banking products should help Avant to stand out.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2015
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $779m
Company benefits
- Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Generous paid parental leave
- Lunch allowance (Fooda) and in-office snacks
- WFH stipends for our remote employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
- No meeting wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer fridays
- Fun in-office and virtual social events
- (And who doesn’t love the swag)
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Co-Founder, Chair & CEO)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in 2013. They have been Chair since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they spent a year as a Software Engineer at CashNetUSA and Enova Financial. They founded Debteye in 2011, before starting Avant in 2013, serving first as CTO then Chief Architect, CTO again and finally CIO.
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