Motion Recruitment | Jobspring | Workbridge

Engineering Manager / Fintech / 5 days onsite (NYC)

New York, New York

Onsite

Direct Hire

$220k - $350k

Engineering Manager — Summary

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale our engineering team and shape the technical foundation of our platform for financial advisors. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, people management, and close collaboration with the founders.

What you’ll do

  • Lead, hire, and mentor a high-performing engineering team.

  • Drive execution across product areas to deliver high-quality, fast-moving features.

  • Set and refine engineering processes for planning, code quality, reviews, operations, and on-call.

  • Partner with founders on architecture, scaling, reliability, and long-term technical strategy.

  • Contribute to technical work when needed (architecture reviews, complex PRs, unblocking engineers).

  • Foster a transparent, collaborative, and action-oriented engineering culture.

Who you are

  • 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally in fast-growing or high-performance tech environments.

  • Strong technical background and sound judgment in ambiguous, fast-changing settings.

  • Excellent communicator who can clearly explain priorities, trade-offs, and the “why” behind decisions.

  • Comfortable making architectural decisions and balancing speed, reliability, performance, and cost.

  • Enjoy working both with people and in the code.

  • Based in NYC and able to work onsite in Chelsea 5 days/week.

  • Motivated to help build a durable, high-quality engineering culture.

Interview process

  • Founder screen (30–45 min)

  • Technical deep dive (45 min)

  • Onsite: leadership interview, system design session, code review/decision-making, and team meet-and-greet


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