Sr. 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 As a Senior Engineering Manager on our Product Engineering team, you will lead and scale high-impact web pods to accelerate the delivery of customer-facing products critical to the organization's growth. Your teams will be experts in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and will partner closely with Product, Analytics, Design, and Marketing to deliver measurable, data-driven business outcomes. You will also be leading a small pod of mobile engineers. This role is ideal for a strong senior technical people leader who excels in metrics-driven environments, drives clarity and urgency across teams, and amplifies impact through strong systems, processes, and talent development. You will also play a key role in leveraging AI tools and workflows to meaningfully increase engineering velocity, experimentation speed, and innovation. This position will be hybrid from our Bengaluru office, as part of our expanding site, with 2+ days in the office. EarnIn provides excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to collaborate with and travel to our Mountain View HQ and Bangkok Site. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead, scale, and operate multiple Engineering pods, setting clear direction, ownership, and accountability tied to metrics. Partner with Product, Analytics, Design, and Marketing leadership to translate strategy into roadmaps, experiments, and durable systems. Own delivery excellence for your teams—improving speed, efficiency, predictability, and quality while balancing rapid experimentation with long-term maintainability. Establish and reinforce a metrics-first culture, ensuring teams define success clearly, review outcomes rigorously, and iterate based on data. Provide technical and architectural leadership across modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), including server-side and client-side rendering. Engage at the code and system level as needed to unblock teams, guide technical direction, and maintain a high engineering bar. Drive adoption of AI-powered development tools and workflows to reduce toil, accelerate experimentation, and improve overall developer effectiveness. Build strong, durable cross-geo partnerships with US-based teams, creating clear operating rhythms and communication patterns across time zones. Attract, hire, and retain top-tier engineering talent; develop senior engineers and tech leads into force multipliers. Coach engineers and leaders at all levels through feedback, career development, and clear expectations. Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement, while ensuring platform stability and reliability. Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives, standards, and leadership discussions across EarnIn. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 4+ years of professional software development experience, with 2+ years leading engineering teams or multiple pods, plus a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Demonstrated ability to scale teams and execution in fast-moving, metrics-driven environments. Strong track record of delivering sustained impact ... (truncated, view full listing at source)