Engineering Manager, Balance and Ledger - Core

Role overview Lead a backend engineering team responsible for a shared ledger and customer balance platform that tracks funds across multiple business lines. The role combines people leadership and technical direction with responsibility for accuracy, auditability, availability, and a careful migration of existing wallets onto the common platform.

Responsibilities - Set the team’s roadmap across platform capabilities, wallet migration, technical health, and operational work; make delivery plans and trade-offs clear. - Guide engineers on architecture and design, and help resolve complex technical problems. - Establish strong practices for security, reliability, observability, incident response, and on-call operations. - Plan phased wallet migrations, including reconciliation, cutover, and rollback, to limit customer disruption. - Work with Finance, Legal, Compliance, Payments, Product, and other engineering teams on fund attribution, settlement, chargebacks, audit needs, and ownership boundaries. - Hire, coach, and develop engineers; communicate platform direction and decisions through roadmaps, design reviews, and incident reviews.

Requirements - 3–5+ years managing software engineering teams, with delivery experience in secure, scalable, regulated, or otherwise high-stakes systems. - Understanding of transaction consistency, idempotency, and data modeling for systems where records must remain accurate. - Experience with event-driven systems and message streaming, such as Kafka. - Experience leading migrations of live, high-traffic systems while limiting customer impact. - Ability to combine strategic planning with enough technical depth to review designs and unblock engineers. - Strong communication skills and experience working across technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have - Experience with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. - Background with ledgers, wallets, balance services, payments, or other financial systems of record. - Experience navigating regulatory questions and developing engineers.

Benefits and work setup - Occasional travel to offices, conferences, meetings, or team events is expected.