Senior Engineering Manager

Imprint

. Lead engineering teams through complex, ambiguous problems involving payments, credit, compliance, and brand strategy .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $220,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong engineering management capabilities with a focus on building and retaining high-performing teams, driving delivery through effective prioritization, and leveraging AI tools for technical assessments. Possesses a solid technical foundation in full-stack engineering and experience in financial systems and regulated environments.

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Engineering Management ExperienceTeam Building and DevelopmentAI Tools UtilizationFinancial Systems ExpertiseTechnical Credibility

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Hard Skills

Full-Stack EngineeringFrontend EngineeringBackend EngineeringMobile EngineeringGoMySQLDynamoDBTemporalKafkaKubernetes

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationDirect Communication

Tools & Technologies

AWSAI Tools

Industry Keywords

PaymentsComplianceBrand StrategyDistributed InfrastructureRegulated Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDynamoDBKafkaKubernetesMySQLGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead engineering teams through complex, ambiguous problems involving payments, credit, compliance, and brand strategy
Partner cross-functionally with product, compliance, legal, capital markets, and solutions engineering
Represent Engineering in strategic decision-making
Use AI tools to investigate codebases, assess work complexity and viability, and clarify ambiguous requests
Hire, develop, and retain strong engineers
Define engineering philosophy, work scope, delivery practices, and feedback approaches
Define the roadmap and scope work
Manage individuals and teams toward outcomes
Balance short- and long-term priorities
Own team and business outcomes during Imprint's growth, new product launches, and platform expansion

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of engineering management experience
Track record of building, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams
Experience managing through rapid growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change
Strong technical foundation and prior experience as a strong engineer
Maintained technical credibility through hands-on engagement or modern AI tools
Experience managing Staff-level individual contributors
Experience helping senior engineers grow into bigger roles
Experience in financial systems, distributed infrastructure, regulated environments, or similarly demanding technical areas
Clear and direct written and verbal communication
Ability to scope work, set priorities, and drive delivery through the team
Experience using AI tools to investigate codebases, assess feasibility, and clarify asks, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
Technical background in full-stack, frontend, backend, mobile, or backend-focused engineering
Experience with Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS is relevant to the engineering stack

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation and equity packages
Leading configured work computers of your choice
Flexible paid time off
Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
Access to One Medical
Option to enroll in an FSA
20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver
8 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents
Access to industry-leading technology across all business units