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Salary: USD 266,000 - 326,000 / annual
EarnIn is a fintech pioneer in earned wage access, enabling people living paycheck-to-paycheck to access their earnings in real-time without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital, and operates with a healthy core business and strong runway.
You will lead a full-stack engineering team (backend and mobile engineers) focused on the Early Bets initiative—developing innovative 0-1 stage products. This is a hands-on manager role requiring both strategic team leadership and direct technical contribution. You'll work closely with product, analytics, and cross-functional partners to translate business goals into technical roadmaps optimized for rapid iteration and discovery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as a product-minded player-coach, balancing team management with hands-on technical work on early-stage products
- Embed AI-native engineering practices into planning, prioritization, and execution workflows
- Maintain deep AI fluency and coach engineers on effective, disciplined AI usage (tools like Cursor and Claude)
- Own the full performance management lifecycle: expectations, feedback, calibration, leveling, and development planning
- Partner with product teams to design scalable architectures and implement high-quality features
- Recruit and develop a top-tier engineering team fostering technical excellence and innovation
- Scale team impact through AI automation while maintaining agility in high-velocity product development
You'll need 7+ years of software engineering experience including leadership in an IC or EM capacity, a CS degree or related technical discipline, and demonstrated ability to write clean, scalable code while mentoring others. Experience leading teams on critical infrastructure, comfort with cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on AI-native workflow fluency are essential. The role is based in Mountain View HQ with hybrid work (2 days/week in-office).
