Engineering Manager, Reconciliation

Build a safe, collaborative team. Name problems openly and invite discussion, it's how your team does its best work.

Lean in beyond your lane. Bring a first-team mindset, jumping in wherever the org needs help.

Raise the bar. Spot and drive improvements in quality, performance, speed, and engineering standards.

Grow your people. Coach engineers, recognize their wins, and help them build skills that serve them for years.

Create clarity, not control. Set clear expectations so your team can operate with independence and confidence.

Define and evolve the team's domain: offer reconciliation, post-claim consumer experiences, receiptful/receiptless transaction flows, and self-heal capabilities ; adapting as Upside's needs grow.

Champion quality across the reconciliation stack: accuracy, reliability, observability, scalability, and clear decision-making in the systems that determine cash-back outcomes.

Keep the platform secure, resilient, and production-ready, with the tooling and practices that make iteration safe and diagnosis fast.

Act as a player-coach, contributing hands-on in high-leverage areas while guiding execution and modeling smart use of AI to speed up development, debugging, and system understanding.

Be the team's main cross-functional partner with Product, Design, Data, Consumer Ops, and partners, keeping roadmap and strategy tied to real gains in transaction success and user trust.

3+ years of engineering management experience, mobile or distributed API domains are a strong plus, but we care most about your leadership track record.

A track record of scaling teams and leveling up systems, even when the path forward is unclear.

Comfort going deep on technical challenges across mobile and API infrastructure (AWS a plus) and back-end data tools (Snowflake, Hex, and similar).

Hands-on familiarity with mobile and API development patterns: serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, Clean Architecture is a plus; we're happy to help you build on what you already know.

A bias toward clarity over consensus, especially when things are moving fast.

Genuine curiosity about generative AI as a tool for improving how your team builds, ships, and improves over time.

We want our engineering leaders to have the time to coach and enable growth for their engineers as well as the space to make thoughtful and impactful technical contributions. We ask our managers to focus on a team of around 6-8 direct reports, while our more senior managers may operate across two teams. The staffing for these reports is always split - we see incredible value from a mix of full-time and contract staff.

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