
Engineering Manager
Coastal
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $234,000 per year
About the role
- Balance technical contribution with people leadership, helping your team deliver high-quality software while growing their skills and careers. You will:
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development support.
- Stay hands-on technically, contributing to code reviews, design discussions, and occasionally coding to set quality standards and unblock complex work.
- Ensure engineering excellence by driving sound practices in testing, monitoring, and security, aligned with the bank’s risk and compliance standards.
- Oversee incident response and operational support, ensuring the team responds effectively when issues arise, participates in on-call rotations, and learns from post-incident reviews to continuously improve reliability.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps, break down projects into clear deliverables, and align engineering priorities with strategic goals.
- Foster a culture of accountability and ownership, helping the team make pragmatic, timely decisions and continuously improve ways of working.
- Promote knowledge sharing and documentation that balances speed with maintainability.
- Uphold compliance and security by ensuring your team understands and adheres to relevant banking regulations (e.g., BSA, OFAC, etc) and internal security policies.
- Model clear and inclusive communication, ensuring diverse voices are heard and that technical work is well-understood across the organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3–5 years in technical leadership or engineering management roles.
- Proven track record of hands-on software development (experience in Node.js/Typescript and experience with functional programming patterns is awesome but not required), with the ability to review code, mentor engineers, and guide system architecture.
- Strong experience with cloud-native systems (Microsoft Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also valuable), CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.
- Background in fintech, banking, or other highly regulated industries, with working knowledge of security, risk, and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and how they can be applied to financial services is a strong plus.
- Deep understanding of scalable system design, monitoring, and incident response in production environments.
- Demonstrated success in building and leading teams of engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, analytics, compliance, and business functions.
- Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or similar are highly desirable.
Benefits
- Medical Coverage: Choose from three competitive medical plans to find the coverage that best fits your needs and lifestyle.
- Health Savings Account (HSA): Available with eligible medical plans, offering tax advantages and employer contributions.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA): Options for healthcare and dependent care expenses to help you save on out-of-pocket costs.
- Dental and Vision Insurance: Plans to keep you and your family smiling and seeing clearly.
- Life Insurance: Company-paid basic life insurance with options to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents.
- Long-Term /Short-Term Disability (LTD): Income protection in the event of a long-term illness or injury.
- Supplemental Benefits: Including Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, and Critical Illness coverage to provide extra financial support when you need it most.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: A competitive retirement savings plan with company matching to help you plan for the future.
- Paid Time Off: Generous vacation and sick leave policies to support your time away from work.
- Holidays: Enjoy 11 paid holidays throughout the year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Node.jsTypescriptfunctional programmingcloud-native systemsCI/CD pipelinesDevOpsSRE practicesscalable system designmonitoringincident response
Soft Skills
people leadershipmentorshipcareer developmentcommunicationaccountabilityownershipcollaborationfeedbackdecision makingknowledge sharing
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAzure DevOps Engineer Expert