Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Synctera is a company powering the future of FinTech by helping businesses create new revenue streams with embedded banking products. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a small team in developing backend systems that are reliable, secure, and scalable, while also contributing to the technical work when necessary.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineers across multiple backend and platform teams, including coaching, performance feedback, hiring, and day-to-day prioritization
- Turn ambiguous work into a clear execution plan and keep that plan aligned with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
- Partner closely with engineers on architecture and technical tradeoffs across customer-facing products and the shared platform services that support them
- Stay close enough to the technical work to review approaches, unblock decisions, and contribute code when it makes sense
- Support teams building reliable backend and platform systems, including event-driven services, operational workflows, internal tooling, shared infrastructure, and data-intensive applications
- Improve how the team works by tightening scope, raising execution quality, and ensuring engineers have the context they need to move quickly
- Work cross-functionally with product, compliance, and other engineering teams to surface risks early and keep delivery grounded in business needs
- Help the team balance roadmap commitments with platform maintenance, operational responsibilities, and long-term investments in reliability, scalability, and engineering quality
Skills
- 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- 3+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including coaching, performance feedback, and hiring involvement
- Experience leading backend or platform teams working on systems with real operational complexity
- Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems
- Enough technical depth to contribute to architecture discussions, challenge assumptions, and jump into the code when useful
- Experience navigating ambiguous problems and turning them into clear plans, priorities, and tradeoffs
- Good judgment around scope, sequencing, and risk, especially when work spans multiple stakeholders or competing demands
- A track record of being accountable for team output, not just individual contribution
- Comfort working in environments where reliability, compliance, auditability, and operational risk matter
- Experience in fintech, banking, infrastructure, developer tooling, or other regulated systems is strongly preferred
Benefits
- 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
- Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
- Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
- 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
- Mental health resources available for all employees
- Unlimited paid time off
- Generous paid new parent leave program
- Home office setup stipend
- Stock options program for all employees
- Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey
- Working alongside a skilled and passionate team
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