Manager, Software Engineering

About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY We're on a mission to reinvent the financial system and make it work for people. We are looking for an experienced professional to lead a full-stack engineering team comprising backend and mobile engineers. We have a top-tier team of engineers and leaders who have worked for prominent tech companies, including Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Uber, and Dropbox. As a hands-on Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to help design and develop some of our early-stage, innovative products (0-1). You will work with your cross-functional partners and team to shape the direction of these products and help make them significant drivers for the company. This position will be hybrid from our Mexico City office as part of our expanding site, with two days a week in the office required. EarnIn offers excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our headquarters in Mountain View. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. WHAT YOU'LL DO Be a strong partner to the product and other engineering teams to drive improvements to business metrics and build new features. Examples include improving user acquisition metrics, cross-selling and upselling products, and enhancing the overall user experience. Drive the design and implementation of new product areas and features. Break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code. Guide your team through ambiguity and ensure technical excellence through rapid experimentation cycles. Guide your team to strong execution — make pragmatic decisions and help teams launch MVPs quickly, iterating based on feedback. Lead the team through frequent pivots and evolving priorities in a rapidly changing environment. Recruit other exceptional engineers for your team and assist with recruiting efforts for various teams. Be a mentor and coach for the engineers on your team. Help them advance their careers by enabling them to do their best work. Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high-quality products. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years leading a small team in an IC leadership or EM capacity. Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, LLMs) to improve engineering productivity. You're just as energized by diving into architecture, writing clean, scalable code, and solving challenging technical problems as you are by mentoring engineers, shaping team culture, and driving delivery. You know when to roll up your sleeves and when to empower others—and you're equally excited to do both. You can work comfortably with a cross-functional team of PMs, Analysts, and mobile and back-end-focused engineers. You have led a team that consistently produced high-quality output, including critical infrastructure. You are a creative, tenacious problem solver with a get-it-done att ... (truncated, view full listing at source)