Senior Engineering Manager, Finalis
Potential for equity grant in Finalis
Securities brokerage platform
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Securities brokerage platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Potential for equity grant in Finalis
101-200 employees
Company mission
Building the world’s largest private securities brokerage platform.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including backend and full-stack systems
- 5+ years in engineering management roles, preferably in high-growth SaaS or data-rich environments
- Experience leading teams that build reliable, secure, and scalable systems using Python, TypeScript, Next.js, and AWS. Or comparable stacks that you are more than eager to compare and contrast their pros and cons
- Comfort working across streaming and batch ETL systems, event queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS), and data-centric infrastructure
- Strong architectural instincts; able to identify when to refactor, rewrite, or stabilize
- Adept at managing trade-offs between speed and quality, complexity and flexibility
- Deep understanding of system design, CI/CD, API lifecycle management, and observability best practices
- You think and plan beyond the current sprint—architecting technical foundations that align with 12–18 month business goals
- You can partner on company-level strategy, especially around data architecture, engineering org structure, and team predictability
- You actively identify opportunities to reduce risk, enhance velocity, or increase system clarity before they become urgent
- You lead with context. You share what you know early and often to reduce ambiguity and surface opportunities for alignment
- You workshop solutions asynchronously and synchronously with peers to drive clarity and create momentum
- You’re confident presenting technical direction to stakeholders while remaining open to feedback and iteration
- If you’re ready to help scale a high-trust engineering culture—and build platforms that blend product quality with data intelligence—we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers as both a hands-on technical mentor and strategic systems architect
- This is a hybrid leadership role that blends deep engineering experience with an appetite for building high-functioning teams, developing technical strategy, and influencing the company’s approach to data-driven innovation
- This is not just about managing engineers or sprint velocity. This role is about orchestrating momentum, unlocking autonomy, and driving predictability—all while contributing to the systems and architecture that fuel our AI-powered platform
- This role also marks the beginning of a new chapter for our engineering leadership team
- You will be central to our transition from forming to storming—building a foundation of trust, decision-making speed, and collective ownership as we scale
- Your success will create space for senior leaders to step out of the day-to-day, knowing that execution is both durable and accelerating
- Drive the full software development lifecycle for high-impact, roadmap-aligned features
- Translate complex product and system requirements into actionable, iterative engineering plans
- Actively contribute code and architectural guidance while shaping team-wide best practices
- Guide the team through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and new technical frontiers with calm and confidence
- Own backend and service-level architecture decisions, ensuring extensibility, resiliency, and clear boundaries
- Partner with our Data team and CTO to evolve our platform into a source of structured, high-quality data for AI model training, analysis, and operational intelligence
- Improve observability, testability, and system health through clear design patterns and modern infrastructure practices
- Bring clarity and rhythm to team execution. Identify blockers early and work cross-functionally to resolve them
- Refine rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning, retros) to increase throughput while energizing the team
- Proactively communicate project status, risks, and outcomes, ensuring zero ambiguity across functions
- Help the team strike the right balance between heroic effort and long-term sustainability
- Serve as the engineering counterpart to Product and Data leads—shaping roadmaps based on effort, feasibility, and strategic impact
- Work backwards from business goals to identify the technical systems and engineering investments that unlock scale
- Lead by influence across engineering—sharing reusable patterns, unblocking peers, and improving predictability company-wide
- Provide technical mentorship and career coaching that elevates individual performance and collective velocity
- Create space for autonomy while holding the bar high for clarity, accountability, and quality
- Model the behavior of a strong “first team” player—prioritizing transparency, proactivity, and shared learning among fellow managers
- What Success Looks Like
- Your team is executing at a high level—shipping with quality, urgency, and technical soundness
- You’re the default decision-maker in your domain. Others rely on your judgment, not just your output
- You are appropriately “living in the future,” identifying investments that ensure scale, sustainability, and alignment with company priorities
- The engineering team gets stronger because of your presence, technically, operationally, and culturally
Our take
Trillions of dollars are exchanged through M&A transactions. While the playbook is known for the lawyers and bankers involved, their workflow continues to be anchored in legacy systems like email and siloed spreadsheets hampering compliance and efficiency.
Finalis hopes to upend this market with an integrated private securities brokerage technology platform. The platform’s central offering is a Hub where banks can affiliate their FINRA licenses, dramatically reducing compliance headaches.
However, Finalis wants to go much further than that with a product suite automating much of the deal process. That means further features like deal rooms and prioritised collaboration opportunities.
While many of these transactions are ‘bread and butter’, stakeholders are reticent to change partially due to the billions of dollars at stake on a deal. However, Finalis’ team, with deep sector expertise and a commitment to the highest standards, stand a good chance of overcoming the inertia in the industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
158% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2022
$10.7m
SEED
Jul 2021
$10.7m
SEED
Total funding: $21.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- 100% Remote work
- Generous paid vacation
- Personal growth budget
- Inclusive and diverse environment to develop your skills at its maximum potential
- Focus on your career growth
- Enriching learning and development opportunities
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Federico Baradello
(Founder & CEO)Attended Princeton University and Harvard University. J.D in Berkeley Law. London School of Economics PhD. Trained at Kirkland & Ellis.
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