Engineering Manager, Lemfi
1+ day a week in office
International payments service
Be an early applicant
International payments service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the financial lives of the next generation of immigrants.
Role
Who you are
- Impact-Oriented: You prioritise meaningful outcomes that improve product reliability and customer experience
- Technically Strong: You bring deep experience in scalable distributed systems using Go Lang or Java
- Influential Leader: You guide technical direction across teams through clarity, mentorship, and collaboration
- Strategic Partner: You work effectively with Product, Data, and business leaders to align priorities
- Growth-Focused: You are curious, adaptive, and excited about the potential of AI-enhanced engineering
- Experience building and scaling backend systems in Go Lang or Java
- Strong grounding in observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Experience designing and evolving RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design and modular architecture
- Familiarity with async processing patterns (queues, coroutines, Kafka)
- Strong SQL fundamentals, especially PostgreSQL
- Experience with secure coding and containerisation (Docker)
- Ability to design secure, efficient AWS architectures
- Previous team-lead or engineering management experience
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager within the Remittance Platform, you will lead the teams powering tens of millions of cross-border transactions each month
- You will guide technical direction, elevate engineering quality, and support the growth of engineers while enabling reliable, scalable money movement for customers around the world
- This is a high-impact leadership role. You will partner closely with Product, Data, and Growth to drive outcomes, shape the architecture of distributed systems, and support the team in delivering secure, resilient, and efficient experiences for our global user base
- Drive Technical Strategy: Guide architectural decisions, influence system design, and ensure scalable, reliable solutions
- Raise Engineering Standards: Uphold high quality across implementation, testing, observability, and long-term maintainability
- Mentor & Grow Talent: Support engineers and technical leads through structured coaching, feedback, and development plans
- Align With Business Goals: Partner cross-functionally to prioritise work, clarify requirements, and deliver impactful outcomes
- Enable Team Effectiveness: Remove blockers, bring clarity to ambiguity, and support strong decision-making across squads
- Evolve Engineering Practices: Improve tooling, workflows, and processes to support long-term quality and velocity
- Lead With Care: Conduct regular 1:1s, manage performance, and support engineers’ growth and career progression
Application process
- Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
- Behaviours & Culture (30 mins)
- Pair Programming (60 mins)
- System Design (45 mins)
- Final Interview (30 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
LemFi, previously known as Lemonade Finance, is a fintech platform addressing the challenge of accessing reliable financial services faced by millions of immigrants worldwide. By offering quick onboarding and a multi-currency offering, LemFi allows its users to send, receive, hold, convert, and save in both their country of origin and residence currencies.
Recognizing the limitations faced by traditional banks and neo-banks, LemFi offers instant international transfers at favorable exchange rates with no transfer fees. Initially launched in Canada, growing demand for the company's services has allowed it to expand to the UK, and broaden its African payment channels.
The company has secured good funding from prominent investors like Y-Combinator, Zrosk, Global Founders Capital, and Olive Tree. With plans to expand its product offering across the globe, LemFi will further its mission of providing accessible and transparent financial services to migrant communities worldwide.
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Company
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Ridwan Olalere
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also the Founder of forLoop Africa. Previously the Country Manager of Uber Nigeria. Also worked as a Software Developer at Flutterwave, Hotels, Novatia, and NextMynds.
Rian Cochran
(Co-Founder)Previously a Financial Director at Opera Software, Powerbets Holdings, and OPay.
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