[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Benepass

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager (M3) at Benepass, you will lead a team of backend engineers on Core Services — the systems that sit on our critical path: the ledger, decisioning, schedules, rules engine, HRIS integrations, authentication, and directory. These are the brains and books of the platform. Every swipe, payout, credit, and adjustment flows through them.

You will report to the Vice President of Engineering and split Core Services with a peer Engineering Manager. This is how we scale leadership without turning one manager into a bottleneck. You will own people, execution, and outcomes for your slice of the team. Engineers stay anchored to Core Services for growth and accountability; they ship through time-boxed projects with Product, Design, and Frontend Engineering.

This is a hands-on EM role. You have a strong technical background, stay close enough to the systems to review designs, spike prototypes, and debug when it matters, and you do not try to be the best IC in the room. You create the environment — clarity, staffing, and culture — so ICs can own architecture and delivery. Managers own team execution. Project leads own project outcomes. Engineers own the quality and impact of their work.

This role is a culture-carrier for how Engineering works. We hire managers who already operate this way — not people we have to convince.

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering experience in Python/Django (or equivalent backend systems).
• Exceptional communicator who builds high trust and high accountability.
• Experience mentoring engineers through 1:1s and setting growth goals.
• Track record of shipping on commitments and creating clarity from ambiguity.
• Heavily use AI in your own work — coding, debugging, planning, writing, and operating a team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years leading teams of ~3–8 engineers.
• Proven ability to lead design reviews and enforce engineering standards.
• Experience mentoring engineers and handling performance issues directly.
• Track record of running a healthy SDLC without turning process into the product.
• Experience using AI to increase effectiveness in your work.

Benefits

• Base Salary $200,000 to 230,000 + equity.
• 95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision.
• $250 WFH setup (one time).
• $500/year Learning & Development Benefit.
• $150/month cell phone + internet.
• $100/month Wellness.
• $100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit.
• Flexible PTO.