Senior Engineering Manager – Spend

Imprint

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsSwitching

About the role

  • Set and execute the technical and organizational strategy for Spend Engineering, balancing latency, feature velocity, and risk controls.
  • Collaborate across cross-functional partners (Product, Risk, Fraud, Data, Compliance) to define goals, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
  • Own delivery and operations of mission‑critical authorization and transaction processing services, with aggressive SLOs, comprehensive runbooks, and high‑quality on‑call practices.
  • Evolve monitoring and alerting around business outcomes like approval rates, decline reasons, latency distribution, and network compliance metrics.
  • Lead architecture to support real‑time spending controls, merchant enrichment, multi‑product authorization logic, and network integrations as we scale.
  • Lead and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers across a spectrum of seniority.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing fullstack teams operating 24x7 services.
  • Strong systems architecture skills across distributed systems, low‑latency design, idempotency, and exactly‑once processing semantics.
  • Proven track record improving reliability, latency, and on‑call effectiveness in high‑stakes, real‑time domains.
  • Clear, direct communication; ability to align cross‑functional stakeholders and lead through ambiguity.
  • Nice to haves: Experience building and operating card authorization, transaction processing, or payment switching systems at scale, with strong knowledge of ISO 8583, card network rules, and authorization flows, as well as hands-on exposure to Visa/Mastercard network integrations, fraud and risk decisioning systems, spend controls and limits engines, regulated environments, or large-scale platform refactors.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Leading configured work computers of your choice
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
  • Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
software engineeringfullstack developmentsystems architecturedistributed systemslow-latency designidempotencyexactly-once processingreliability improvementon-call effectivenessreal-time processing
Soft skills
clear communicationdirect communicationstakeholder alignmentleadershipambiguity management