Engineering Manager

Join Cardless as an Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a high-performing engineering team at the intersection of payments, money movement, and financial infrastructure. You'll own the technical health, execution, and culture of your team, partner closely with the Head of Engineering, and work directly with external partners and cross-functional stakeholders. This is a critical hire that will help shape how we build at Cardless as we scale.

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, ensuring technical health, execution, and culture.
• Be a hands-on technical partner, engaging in system design and complex technical decisions while implementing frameworks and processes.
• Partner closely with the Head of Engineering on hiring strategy, technical roadmap, and organizational planning.

• Experience in fintech, payments, credit or debit card infrastructure, or money movement. You understand the compliance and regulatory realities of building in this space
• High standards and a commitment to quality — in code, in communication, and in outcomes
• Several years of engineering management experience, ideally leading backend teams building complex, high-scale systems
• Excitement about how AI is reshaping software development and a track record of putting these tools to work — whether for developer productivity, system design, or building smarter products
• Strong technical depth — you can credibly engage in system design discussions, challenge architectural decisions, and earn the trust of senior engineers
• Strong cross-functional instincts. You're comfortable navigating ambiguity alongside product, compliance, operations, and external partners
• A track record of scaling teams as well as systems — you've grown people, defined processes, and built cultures that ship