As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.
We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
- Own and evolve the platform roadmap, ensuring foundational capabilities, such as services, frameworks, APIs, and shared infrastructure, are leveraged by multiple product teams with speed, reliability, and consistency.
- Partner closely with senior leadership to align platform investments with long-term business strategy and product growth.
- Collaborate deeply with product, data, and engineering leaders to accelerate product development through reusable, scalable platform solutions.
- Champion platform adoption, enabling improvements in key business metrics such as user acquisition, activation, retention, and cross-product engagement.
- Provide senior-level architectural guidance and dive into the codebase when needed to unblock teams or clarify technical direction.
- Set engineering excellence standards across reliability, performance, security, and technical quality.
- Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering managers.
- Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor leaders and engineers in technical decision-making, career development, and execution discipline.
- Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of stability, scalability, and observability, even as we move quickly to deliver new capabilities.
- Drive rigorous planning, prioritization, and execution to deliver impactful outcomes across multiple parallel workstreams.
- Represent the platform organization in cross-functional planning, company-wide engineering initiatives, and executive-level discussions.
- Help shape engineering culture and processes at EarnIn as we scale.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams; experience managing multiple teams is a strong plus.
- Bachelor's degree or higher, or relevant industry experience
- Proven success in building and scaling platform capabilities teams that deliver critical capabilities used broadly across an organization. Fintech experience is a strong plus.
- Deep technical background enabling you to guide engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and contribute to system design.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems, APIs, services, and frameworks that support multiple product surfaces.
- A builder of healthy, high-performing teams where engineers feel supported, challenged, and inspired.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align stakeholders across product, data, design, and engineering.
- A hands-on, pragmatic leader who balances strategic thinking with a strong bias for action.
- A technical leader who moved into management because they care deeply about helping people grow and enabling teams to achieve more together than they could individually.
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At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.
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