Greenlight is a fintech company that makes a debit card for kids and companion apps for the family. We proudly serve more than 5 million parents and kids, with in-app tools for sending money, setting savings goals, monitoring balances, managing chores, automating allowance, and investing.
But that’s not all that we do. Here at Greenlight, we are on a mission to support parents and help every kid grow up to be financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, but it’s the reason we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for kids depends on it.
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can lead a team of talented engineers to deliver full-stack solutions (from mobile and/or web, to backend services.) This role will lead a team who is focused on acquiring new users to the Greenlight Platform, as well as managing onboarding, which is a critical component to the journey of the families that we serve at Greenlight.
We are seeking someone who cares deeply about their team, coaches for high performance in a fast-paced environment, and works effectively with their counterpart in Product to keep the team focused on delivering incremental value. The ideal candidate has a track record of leading a team and shipping products at scale, and has experience managing a team of engineers. In this role, you will be working cross-functionally to implement solutions that integrate with the Greenlight eco-system. The ability to bring your vision to the engineering organization, advocating and getting buy-in for solutions, and outward looking management are attributes that will make you successful at Greenlight.
What you will be doing:
- Work closely with the product, design, quality, operations teams to deliver high impact solutions
- Effectively influence outcomes across multiple teams and with cross-functional partners, often requiring conflict resolution and managing ambiguity.
- Build, support, and operate your services for use within Greenlight engineering and for our partners
- Define and implement your team's processes in order to manage the SDLC and enable faster, more consistent, more reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery
- Accountable for technical decision making for your domain, including tech specs, architecture / design, and tooling to achieve the right architecture and tradeoffs to maintain a high throughput.
- Support your team and provide an environment where team members can thrive
What you should bring:
- Bachelor or masters degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience managing a development team
- Ability to coach for high performance
- Software development background
- Knowledge and experience with some of core technologies including NodeJS, Kotlin, React, Swift, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, AWS and other
- Empathy for users and background talking to users
- Written and oral communication skills for reporting on progress of work and impedimentsTrack record of driving development projects into production rapidly
Now, it takes a special kind of person to join a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We need people who love working with each other because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a generation of financially smart kids, apply to join our team today.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
