Senior Engineering Manager, Clair
$170-215k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
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Wage advance service
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Wage advance service
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-215k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create financial freedom for America’s workforce.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4–5+ years of direct engineering management experience, ideally leading teams through a period of rapid growth in a series B or C startup
- Startup DNA: You have thrived in a scaling startup environment. You are comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and building the airplane while flying it
- Highly Organized: You are a systems thinker. You naturally look for ways to centralize information, clean up messy workflows, and make executing work easier for everyone around you. You are diligent at tracking the ongoing work across the org and obsess over making sure stakeholders are aware of status and timelines
- Technical Credibility: You have a strong background in software engineering. While you won't be coding every day, you possess the technical chops to guide architectural decisions, push back when necessary, and earn the respect of your team
- Empathetic Leadership: You care deeply about the humans building the product. You know how to cultivate psychological safety and foster a culture of open, honest feedback in service of personal and professional growth
What the job involves
- As our Senior Engineering Manager, you will be the linchpin between rapid execution and sustainable scaling. We are growing quickly, and we need a highly organized, empathetic leader to help us manage "process debt," streamline cross-functional workflows, and build an environment where our engineers can do their best work
- You won't just be managing a team; you will be optimizing how we build
- Lead & Mentor: Directly manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing engineers. You will conduct impactful 1:1s, guide career development, and ensure your team feels valued and recognized
- Tame the Chaos: Bring exceptional organizational skills to our engineering operations. You will identify bottlenecks, improve documentation standards (like PRDs), and create clear, lightweight processes that speed us up rather than slow us down
- Protect the Team: Actively monitor team workloads to ensure we are delivering high-quality work sustainably, guarding against burnout and maintaining healthy boundaries
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as a bridge between Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Care, and more. You will ensure context is shared transparently and that decisions don't get lost in silos
- Champion Innovation: Encourage your team to experiment with AI and new tooling to solve complex problems more efficiently. Advocate for time to be invested into Engineer-led initiatives that may not be part of the core product roadmaps
Our take
Clair is a social impact fintech startup offering instant no-fee pay access, so that gig companies and HR tech can offer hourly workers cash advances on their earnings. It aims to both mitigate the risks taken on by workers in the growing gig economy, and help gig companies recruit and retain their workforce in a market characterized by fluctuating demand.
Clair secured a high level of funding from Thrive Capital, a big win given their reputation for funding and building game-changing fintech. This is a game that certainly looks set to change - with 80 million hourly workers and 60 million gig workers, this precariously positioned segment of the US workforce is both large and growing.
Mastercard, MetaBank, and Galileo have all thrown their weight behind Clair to provide the financial infrastructure that makes their payment model possible. Following the recent surge in the gig economy, Clair offers both an attractive and necessary tool to sustain the livelihoods of the people working in this sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$23.2m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$25m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $68.3m
Company benefits
- 100% Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
- Fully-paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
- Unlimited vacation
- Work from home setup allowance
- Access to your earnings every day on Clair
- Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Alex Kostecki
(Co-Founder, President & COO)Alex worked at Deloitte for 6 years, spending time in strategy and operations consulting before co-founding Clair.
Nico Simko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Nico worked in Fintech M&A at J.P. Morgan and is part of the Finance Council for Forbes.
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