• Understand and support the unique needs of your teams, considering their individual skills, ambitions, and motivational drivers. • Mentor Software Engineers, using empathetic communication and understanding to help them shape their career paths. • Support and encourage Software Engineers as they strive to achieve their career objectives. • Champion an environment of inclusion and equity, ensuring every team member feels valued and respected. • Participate in the recruitment and retention of diverse teams of Software Engineers, fostering a dynamic, and welcoming team atmosphere. • Facilitate your teams in staying focused and efficient as they produce high-quality software. • Collaborate with the Director of Product Engineering, Product Managers, Product Owners, and fellow Engineering Managers to streamline operations, establish meaningful success metrics, and ensure alignment with organizational objectives

• Drive the technical vision and strategy for your team; to inform what we build and how we build it. You’ll work with partners and stakeholders across the company while doing this. • Hire, mentor, and grow the engineers on your team, from setting them up for success during onboarding to challenging them to grow throughout their careers with the company. • Contribute directly to the team’s work via code, technical decision making and architectural and operational improvements. • Promote an engaged, positive, and product-focused, engineering culture. • Partner with our risk operations and customer experience teams on risk rules, policies, operations and tooling. • Build & update processes in support of positive customer outcomes while scaling our operational load. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and finance to build our development roadmap, headcount goals, and more.

• Define and execute engineering strategy: Align technical direction with business goals, balancing velocity with quality and scalability. • Build and scale the team: Recruit, retain, and mentor world-class engineers and managers, while fostering career growth and leadership development. • Drive execution at scale: Ensure timely delivery of complex, high-impact projects across the stack, with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure. • Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape the roadmap and deliver on company priorities. • Champion engineering excellence: Establish standards for architecture, observability, performance, and operational excellence. • Foster culture: Create a psychologically safe environment where teams can innovate, take ownership, and do their best work. • Company-building: Contribute to hiring practices, onboarding, organizational design, and other initiatives that support our growth as a startup.

• Lead a cross-functional team, accountable for product delivery, team performance, and engineering health • Partner in product discovery to shape feasible, valuable, scalable solutions • Manage and coach engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and career development • Drive architecture, code quality, and engineering best practices in collaboration with other senior leads. • Reduce team friction through automation, smart process design, and systems thinking • Champion observability, testing, CI/CD, and devops metrics like Lead Time for Change • Leverage AI and tooling to improve developer experience and accelerate delivery • Model ownership, transparency, and continuous learning across the team • Deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable software in line with business needs and customer expectations.