Senior Engineering Manager – Consumer, New Verticals

Flex

. Own consumer engineering teams within the New Verticals division .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering, managing engineering teams, and leading cross-functional initiatives to deliver consumer-facing products. Proven ability to ensure operational excellence, data integrity, and reliability in production services while mentoring future technical leaders.

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8+ Years Software Engineering Experience3+ Years Managing EngineersExperience Building Consumer-Facing ProductsStrong Understanding of Distributed SystemsExperience Partnering with Risk and Compliance Teams

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Hard Skills

Frontend SystemsBackend SystemsService ArchitectureData IntegrityProduction Services ManagementProduct AnalyticsExperimentationConsumer APIsOperational ReadinessScalability

Soft Skills

Strong Product JudgmentInfluencing Technical DirectionMentoring EngineersCross-Functional CollaborationProblem Solving

Industry Keywords

Consumer FintechPaymentsBankingLending ProductsCustomer OnboardingBill ManagementPayment WorkflowsConsumer Financial ExperiencesHigh-Growth Consumer PlatformsRegulated Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own consumer engineering teams within the New Verticals division
Define and execute consumer architecture supporting expansion into essential spend
Partner with Product, business leadership, and cross-functional teams to deliver customer and business outcomes
Lead large, ambiguous projects from exploration through launch and scale
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and resolve blockers
Guide design reviews and make high-impact technical decisions
Ensure reliability, data integrity, and financial correctness across consumer workflows
Manage, mentor, hire, and grow engineers and future technical leaders
Establish ownership of customer outcomes, engineering quality, and operational excellence
Own production health and reliability of consumer services
Improve observability, scalability, and incident response
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and platform teams on safeguards for financial workflows
Ensure launches have operational ownership, monitoring, and support readiness
Represent Consumer Engineering and New Verticals in company-wide architecture and quality initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience spanning frontend and backend systems
3+ years managing engineers
Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products and their APIs and backend systems
Strong product judgment and experience partnering with business and product leaders
Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from definition through launch and iteration
Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, reliability, and data integrity
Experience owning production services with high standards for uptime, correctness, and operational readiness
Track record of growing engineers and developing technical leaders
Ability to influence technical direction across teams and balance new-business-line needs with shared company-wide capabilities
Preferred: experience with consumer fintech, payments, banking, or lending products
Preferred: experience launching a new product or business line from experimentation through scale
Preferred: familiarity with customer onboarding, bill management, payment workflows, or consumer financial experiences
Preferred: experience using product analytics and experimentation
Preferred: experience partnering with Risk and Compliance teams in a regulated environment
Preferred: background scaling high-growth consumer platforms

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunity workplace
Potential eligibility for relocation assistance for candidates outside New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City areas
Benefits information available at getflex.com/careers
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