Full Stack Software Engineering Manager, Avant
$155-195k
+ Annual bonus
3 days a week in office
Personal credit FinTech
Be an early applicant
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-195k
+ Annual bonus
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every customer with innovative solutions designed to help them reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills, ideal for an experienced engineer prepared to oversee teams and manage complex projects
- 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 full-stack teams delivering backend services and frontend applications
- Proficiency in Ruby, Python, or similar object-oriented languages, and hands-on experience with frontend 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 can tailor technical updates to engineering and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments, including backlog refinement, planning, and delivery ceremonies
- With a people-first mindset, you care about team health, individual growth, and cultivating 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 one or more product-focused squads
- The Engineering Manager will be responsible for delivering complex features, fostering a positive team environment, and promoting the adoption of improved engineering practices
- Responsibilities include contributing to team strategy, influencing architectural choices, and mentoring individual team members
- This role also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to guarantee that engineering outcomes support business objectives
- Lead an agile team responsible for end-to-end delivery within a focused product area
- 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
- Collaborate with 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 senior managers and directors, 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.
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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 & Executive Chair)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.
Matthew Bochenek
(CEO)Has been with the business since 2013, working in a range of positions including Head of US Servicing, Head of Operations and COO - before becoming CEO in 2021. Previously spend a decade at Superfund Asset Management.
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