Engineering Manager, Subledger

Role overview

Lead the engineering team responsible for a financial subledger that records and reconciles transactions across booking and post-booking flows. You will own the system’s technical direction and reliability, ensuring money movements can be traced from their originating events through to financial reporting. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, finance, accounting, and payments.

Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor, and develop engineers while setting technical direction for the subledger platform. - Own system architecture and guide refactoring or migration work to improve simplicity, scalability, and automation. - Ensure transaction records balance and remain traceable across integrated financial workflows. - Work with Finance and Accounting to turn accounting needs into system requirements and raise technical constraints early. - Coordinate contracts, data models, and migration plans with payments, booking, post-booking, and data teams. - Reduce manual reconciliation, close reporting gaps, and monitor measures such as unmatched transactions, close timelines, accuracy, and reliability.

Requirements

- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including 2 or more years managing engineers. - Experience designing and operating high-volume transactional systems where correctness, idempotency, and auditability are essential. - Working knowledge of double-entry accounting, ledgers and subledgers, reconciliation, and financial close processes. - Experience leading substantial refactors or migrations of production financial systems. - Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to accounting and engineering partners. - Self-directed, organized approach to work, and availability in the Eastern or Central time zone for daily team overlap.

Nice to have

- Background in fintech, payments, or other financial systems.

Benefits and work setup

- Benefits include group insurance premiums, life and disability coverage, a health savings account, telemedicine access, retirement savings, and paid time off. - The package also includes parental leave, a travel stipend, and support for coworking or working from home.