Senior Engineering Manager, Imprint
Payments
$200-250k
+ 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
+ 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 backend/platform teams operating 24x7 services
- Experience building and running payment or financial systems at scale, such as ACH, debit, bill pay, RPPS, or check processing, with strong reconciliation and audit practices
- Strong systems architecture skills across distributed systems, data integrity, idempotency, and exactly‑once semantics
- Proven track record improving reliability, observability, and on‑call effectiveness in high‑stakes domains
- Clear, direct communication; ability to align cross‑functional stakeholders and lead through ambiguity
- Nice to have: experience with provider integrations and payment rails, rules/controls frameworks, regulated environments, or large‑scale platform refactors
What the job involves
- The Payments team operates the financial backbone of Imprint, owning the services that process and reconcile customer and partner payments across instruments like ACH, debit, bill pay, and checks
- The team’s mandate spans money‑movement reliability, observability, and compliance, and it partners closely with Risk, Data, Finance, Compliance, and Product to deliver accurate, auditable outcomes
- Current focus areas include improving the payment customer product experience, deepening integrations with our payment partners, and executing a roadmap of architectural improvements to meet the dramatically increasing needs of our company's scale
- We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Payments through its next phase of scale and reliability. You will set strategy, grow and mentor a high‑performing team, and drive delivery of resilient payment flows and platform capabilities
- You’ll partner with product and cross‑functional leaders to raise our bar on availability, correctness, and speed of change while meeting regulatory and audit requirements
- Set and execute the technical and organizational strategy for Payments Engineering, balancing speed, scale, cost, and compliance
- Collaborate across cross-functional partners (Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Data) to define goals, sequencing, and tradeoffs
- Own delivery and operations of mission‑critical money‑movement services and jobs, with strong SLOs, runbooks, and on‑call quality
- Evolve monitoring and alerting around business outcomes and failure modes across payment domains and providers
- Lead architecture to simplify flows, improve auditability, and de‑risk migrations as we refactor legacy paths
- Lead and develop a diverse, talented team of engineers across a range of seniority levels
- 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)
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.
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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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