Senior Engineering Manager, Imprint
Spend
$200-250k
Offers equity
2-3 days a week in office
Branded payments and rewards products
Be an early applicant
Branded payments and rewards products
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
Offers equity
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make payments better for modern brands and their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing fullstack teams operating 24x7 services
- Strong systems architecture skills across distributed systems, low‑latency design, idempotency, and exactly‑once processing semantics
- Proven track record improving reliability, latency, and on‑call effectiveness in high‑stakes, real‑time domains
- Clear, direct communication; ability to align cross‑functional stakeholders and lead through ambiguity
- Nice to haves: Experience building and operating card authorization, transaction processing, or payment switching systems at scale, with strong knowledge of ISO 8583, card network rules, and authorization flows, as well as hands-on exposure to Visa/Mastercard network integrations, fraud and risk decisioning systems, spend controls and limits engines, regulated environments, or large-scale platform refactors
What the job involves
- The Spend team sits at the core of Imprint’s financial platform, shaping the transaction experiences that power cardholder engagement and partner growth
- We build and operate the services behind our customer experiences and Partner APIs, translating every transaction into an opportunity to drive trust, insight, and increased spend
- Our mandate spans rewards, the full transaction lifecycle, merchant intelligence, and fraud-aware controls. In close partnership with Risk, Product, Data, Compliance, and Payments, the team delivers exceptional experiences today while defining the platform that will power Imprint’s next chapter
- We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Spend into its next era of scale, innovation, and impact
- You will define and drive the engineering vision, build and inspire a high-performing team, and deliver meaningful customer engagement experiences alongside robust, scalable partner APIs
- Working closely with product and cross-functional leaders, you’ll raise the bar for engineering excellence, influence how we operate at scale, and play a key role in shaping the future of both our customer and partner ecosystems
- Set and execute the technical and organizational strategy for Spend Engineering, balancing latency, feature velocity, and risk controls
- Collaborate across cross-functional partners (Product, Risk, Fraud, Data, Compliance) to define goals, sequencing, and tradeoffs
- Own delivery and operations of mission‑critical authorization and transaction processing services, with aggressive SLOs, comprehensive runbooks, and high‑quality on‑call practices
- Evolve monitoring and alerting around business outcomes like approval rates, decline reasons, latency distribution, and network compliance metrics
- Lead architecture to support real‑time spending controls, merchant enrichment, multi‑product authorization logic, and network integrations as we scale
- Lead and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers across a spectrum of seniority
- Technologies We Use:
- Go (Golang) or JVM languages, TypeScript
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms, Temporal (workflow orchestration)
- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Modern observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing)
Application process
- Review the team description and focus areas to ensure they match the actual Spend team's scope, then share with the hiring manager for calibration
Our take
These days, all sorts of cards abound, from virtual cards to co-branded credit cards. Imprint aims to stand out in the increasingly crowded space by partnering with businesses to provide branded rewards cards for customers.
While there has been an increase in the number of companies offering branded financial products to reduce costs, Imprint sees its card programs as offering a new platform for deepening customer relationships: less of the nastiness of credit and a much greater focus on rewards.
The startup is focusing on refining its embedded finance solution to fulfil its vision of an Apple-pay like experience for merchants and consumers.
Imprint will hope that its lightweight service, fit for smaller customers like hotel chains, will allow it to compete with the major venture-backed players in the space like Cardless, Apto and Alviere. And its $75M in venture capital raised in 2023 is going some way towards achieving these aims.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
103% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$75m
SERIES C
Nov 2023
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $203m
Company HQ
Little Italy, New York, NY
Leadership
Daragh Murphy
(Founder & CEO)Previously VP of Operations & Strategy at WeWork. They were a Junior Partner at McKinsey until 2018. Originally trained as a lawyer at Duke University, before working as a Corporate Lawyer at WilmerHale.
Mariana Pali Coontz
(COO & CFO)Prior to joining Imprint in 2023, Mariana was the Chief Financial and Operating Officer at DigniFi. She also spent 8 years at Synchrony in roles including Head of Capital Strategy & Stress Testing and SVP, Head of FP&A and nearly 11 years at JPMorgan Chase & Co in roles including Treasury Associate and Executive Director.
Will Larson
(CTO)Prior to joining Imprint in 2025, Will was the CTO at Carta and Calm. He was also the Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe and a Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure at Uber.
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