Engineering Manager

About the Role:

We are searching for an experienced Engineering Manager to join Perpay and lead one of our Product Engineering teams. You will support and mentor a team of Engineers while delivering large-scale projects from start-to-finish, and given our people-first approach, your elevated level of contribution will strengthen our culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning.

As a leader of Perpay’s Engineering team, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders ranging from entry-level contributors to senior-level executives. The ideal candidate has a bias toward action, and ownership of moving the business forward. This is a unique opportunity as it offers the chance to provide leadership to our rapidly growing team during a significant moment in our history. Reports to the Director of Engineering. Our tech stack: Javascript, React, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and more

Our greatest strength is our people and we’d love for you to be one of them!

Responsibilities:

• Lead and support a team of 4-8 Engineers through executing on projects, growing careers, and encouraging an environment to do our best work
• Directly contribute through writing tech specs, shipping code, and participating in on-call (expect about 50% time spent hands on technically, depending on team size)
• Develop technical requirements alongside our Product team
• Solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems with distributed architectures and scaling systems
• Make data and metrics-driven decisions to improve the user experience as well as developer quality of life
• Continue to improve how we build, test, and deliver software
• Collaborate with our stakeholders to design and implement new credit products, as well as new features for our existing platform

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience building applications at scale in at least one popular programming language / framework (Python, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience directly managing and supporting engineers
• Experience working on consumer-facing products and demonstrating empathy for end-users
• Strong technical background, with experience in software engineering, architecture, and design – with a record of supporting growing your team technically
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain highly technical subject matter to a non-technical audience
• Proven history of high empathy and experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, finding compromises when necessary – our friends in Product, Design, Marketing, etc are very close partners, and we all build as one team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment, with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality products and driving results
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend application framework such as Django or Flask and experience with frontend technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred

Hey, we know not everybody checks all the boxes, so if you’re interested, please apply because you could be just what we’re looking for!