Engineering Manager, Lending Club
Backend
$176-207k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Online personal loans
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Online personal loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$176-207k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the banking system to make credit more affordable and investing more rewarding.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a people‑leadership or team‑lead role; bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong background in backend engineering, distributed systems, and service‑oriented architecture
- Expertise with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and cloud-native development (AWS preferred)
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices: CI/CD, testing strategies, code quality, observability, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity, set direction, and drive alignment across stakeholders
- Ability to translate business objectives into clear engineering plans and technical designs
- Strong communication and storytelling skills—you make complex technical concepts accessible
- Passion for mentorship, coaching, and career development of engineers
- Commitment to building inclusive, high‑trust, high‑impact engineering teams
Desirable
- Experience in regulated industries or with compliance-heavy platforms
- Financial services or lending industry experience
- Experience with large-scale service migrations
- Familiarity with frontend or full‑stack environments (even if backend‑heavy)
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to improve developer workflows or service capabilities
- Curiosity, ownership mindset, and enthusiasm for transforming the banking and lending industry
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager on the Consumer Engineering Team at LendingClub, you will lead a team of software engineers in designing, building, and enhancing the systems that power personal loan originations, underwriting, borrower experiences, and operational workflows
- You will guide the development of resilient, scalable backend services while fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Your experience delivering high availability distributed systems, driving backend technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and collaborating cross functionally will enable you to meaningfully advance LendingClub’s mission to transform consumer lending through innovation and responsible technology
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing engineering team focused on backend systems supporting the originations journey
- Drive the technical vision, architectural direction, and engineering roadmap for key platforms and services
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable, high‑impact technical solutions
- Guide the team in delivering features end‑to‑end across Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, distributed systems, and AWS services
- Ensure the team builds high‑availability, fault‑tolerant services with a strong emphasis on observability, performance, and security
- Facilitate technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural evaluations
- Balance delivery of new capabilities with long‑term platform reliability, refactoring, and technical debt management
- Cultivate a positive engineering culture grounded in collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and craftsmanship
- Own team execution—setting priorities, aligning on milestones, removing blockers, and ensuring consistent delivery
- Promote operational excellence
- Master team metrics (services and team performance)
Our take
Lending Club is a digital bank offering personal loans, auto loan refinancing, and debt consolidation to help individuals manage their finances. It provides flexible loan terms and competitive rates for a variety of needs, as well as high-yield saving and cash-back checking accounts, designed to help customers grow their money.
Focusing on digital solutions, Lending Club removes traditional brick-and-mortar branches, passing the savings on to customers through low fees and better rates. It connects borrowers with investors in a marketplace model and offers fast loan approvals and competitive interest rates.
To bolster its offering, the company acquired Tally Technologies' intellectual property (IP) to enhance its credit management services. It continues to develop and enhance its products and improve customer engagement in a bid to become a "top of mind" company with more active users.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2014
$65m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2013
$57m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $332m
Company benefits
- Untracked vacation for salaried employees, which means take it when you need it, and generous paid time off for hourly team members
- A hybrid work model that balances in-office and work from home
- Leading health and safety protocols related to COVID, including complimentary at-home testing kits from Cue Health for those coming to the office
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave for new parents, plus a fully paid, phased return-to-work policy for qualified leaves
- Mothers Rooms and hospital-grade pumps in every LC office
- Generous and varied mental health benefits
- Wellness program with cash incentives — earn up to $75 per month for being active
- Paid volunteer time and donation matching
- Onsite gym, locker room, bike room, and fitness classes (depending on location)
- Café with our own in-house barista
- Stocked pantries with healthy snacks and drinks
- Technology-forward and collaborative office spaces
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Scott Sanborn
(CEO)Previously held leadership positions as the Chief Revenue Officer for publicly traded eHealth Insurance, President of RedEnvelope, Inc., and SVP at the Home Shopping Network. Joined LendingClub in 2010 and has worked as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and President before becoming the CEO in 2016.
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