Senior Engineering Manager, Earnin
$267-326k
Salary range applies to Mountain View only, and may vary in other locations. Plus equity
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Paycheck advance service for employees
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Paycheck advance service for employees
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$267-326k
Salary range applies to Mountain View only, and may vary in other locations. Plus equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams; experience managing multiple teams is a strong plus
- Bachelor's degree or higher, or relevant industry experience
- Proven success in building and scaling platform capabilities teams that deliver critical capabilities used broadly across an organization. Fintech experience is a strong plus
- Deep technical background enabling you to guide engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and contribute to system design
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems, APIs, services, and frameworks that support multiple product surfaces
- A builder of healthy, high-performing teams where engineers feel supported, challenged, and inspired
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align stakeholders across product, data, design, and engineering
- A hands-on, pragmatic leader who balances strategic thinking with a strong bias for action
- A technical leader who moved into management because they care deeply about helping people grow and enabling teams to achieve more together than they could individually
What the job involves
- EarnIn is seeking an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale the teams responsible for building the platform capabilities that power multiple products across our ecosystem
- You will drive the technical vision, execution excellence, and organizational leadership needed to deliver a world-class financial platform that supports EarnIn’s mission: to build a financial system that works for everyday people
- Own and evolve the platform roadmap, ensuring that foundational capabilities—services, frameworks, APIs, and shared infrastructure—can be leveraged by multiple product teams with speed, reliability, and consistency
- Partner closely with senior leadership to align platform investments with long-term business strategy and product growth
- Collaborate deeply with product, data, and engineering leaders to accelerate product development through reusable, scalable platform solutions
- Champion platform adoption, enabling improvements in key business metrics such as user acquisition, activation, retention, and cross-product engagement
- Provide senior-level architectural guidance and dive into the codebase when needed to unblock teams or clarify technical direction
- Set engineering excellence standards across reliability, performance, security, and technical quality
- Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering managers
- Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement
- Mentor leaders and engineers in technical decision-making, career development, and execution discipline
- Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of stability, scalability, and observability, even as we move quickly to deliver new capabilities
- Drive rigorous planning, prioritization, and execution to deliver impactful outcomes across multiple parallel workstreams
- Represent the platform organization in cross-functional planning, company-wide engineering initiatives, and executive-level discussions
- Help shape engineering culture and processes at EarnIn as we scale
Our take
Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their paychecks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.
Unlike competitors in this growing space, such as Dave, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of over 300,000 business customers who offer Earnin as an employee benefit. Around 70 million paycheck advances were taken through the platform in 2022 alone, totalling $5 billion. Since then, this number has grown to an overall earnings access value of $15 billion.
Earnin is growing despite current difficulties in the wider tech landscape and is continuing to hire in all departments. It will continue to improve upon its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2018
$125m
SERIES C
Sep 2017
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- FSA
- Mental health resources
- Employee Resource Groups
- Stipend for growth opportunities
- Pet friendly office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ram Palaniappan
(Founder & CEO)Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.
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