Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Caribou Financial, Inc. is focused on providing financial freedom through innovative technology in the auto loan refinancing space. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to build and improve the Loan Origination and Customer Relationship Management platform, focusing on agentic orchestration to enhance the refinancing process.
Responsibilities
- Build and hold the team: hiring, coaching, performance conversations, and career growth for ten engineers
- You won't ship features. You will read designs, weigh trade-offs with senior engineers, and know how the system actually works
- Keep the codebase healthy across quarters, including making the case to Product when tech debt needs paying down
- Grow your team's agentic engineering practice, moving each engineer up our capability model through mentoring and pairing
- Lead production health for your team's services: on-call rotation, alerts and monitoring, incident response, and the follow-through after
- Guide secure SDLC for your team: vulnerability patching, threat modeling on new agentic surfaces, and origination workflows kept audit-ready under SOC 2 and GLBA
- Partner with Product, design, security, and data. Product sets the roadmap. You decide how it gets built
- Collaborate with the other engineering managers to set how we engineer at Caribou
Skills
- Prior experience leading engineers who build and operate production applications and back-end integrations
- Experience guiding a team's shift to agentic engineering, or adding AI into existing products for material business value
- Customer-focused leaders with a passion for well-crafted software, committed to growing their own leadership and engineering skills
- Experience leading a distributed team across time zones, including nearshore or offshore engineers
- Full-stack understanding of production software systems, from hosts and HTML, to models and MCP, to databases and DNS, to runtimes and REST
- Collaborative, people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control
Benefits
- Equity options
- 401k savings program
- Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees
- 100% paid parental leave for all parents
- Company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability, and basic life insurance
- Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance
- Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses
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