[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Loancrate

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to own the health, output, and trajectory of one of our engineering pods — roughly 6–8 engineers, reporting to the Head of Engineering. You'll own your pod’s operating system: people, execution, delivery health, cross-functional partnership, and continuous improvement.

Those partnerships are the job. You are not the technical decision-maker of last resort, and you are not a proxy PM — you are the person accountable for whether the pod is healthy and whether the pod delivers.

On your first day, you'll ship something to production. It's a team tradition, and for managers, it's also a statement of intent. We expect our managers to be fluent in AI-native products and workflows.

Your first 90 days will look something like:

• First 30 days:
  • Weekly 1:1s established with every direct report.
  • A working understanding of the pod's roadmap, codebase, and dependencies.
  • A clear-eyed inventory of what's actually blocking your engineers.
• First 60 days:
  • Your pod’s operating cadence is yours: planning, retros, and follow-through.
  • Catching stalled or poorly scoped projects before they slip.
  • Your PM has started treating you as a partner in prioritization.
• First 90 days:
  • Performance expectations are explicit and understood.
  • New hires are ramping faster than they were before you arrived.
  • The pod is solving most of its own problems without escalation.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers directly — ideally 5+ on a product or platform team.
• A credible engineering background.
• A track record of delivery.
• Fluency with modern AI product development.
• Comfort with ambiguity and high-complexity domains.
• Strong product partnership instincts.
• Crisp written communication.
• Directness with care.
• Operational and reliability instincts.
• A keen eye for security risk.
• Experience hiring and onboarding in a growing organization.

Requirements

• Own your pod’s overall performance and create clarity around priorities, ownership, and expectations.
• Be accountable for whether the pod delivers and know the roadmap deeply enough to spot risk.
• Run weekly 1:1s with every direct report and give specific feedback continuously.
• Set clear expectations and give high performers room to increase their impact.
• Support growth, write fair reviews, and stay alert to burnout and retention risk.
• Own onboarding for every new engineer, ensuring they ramp fast.
• Partner closely with your pod's Product Manager.
• Partner with your Technical Lead on architecture, quality, and technical risk.
• Know whether your pod has the right skills and seniority mix.
• Give the Head of Engineering an honest picture of pod health.

Benefits

• Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered).
• Vision & dental coverage.
• 401(k).
• HSA / FSA.
• Access to lender partner's employee loan program.
• Remote-first culture — work from wherever you do your best work.
• Flexible time off — we trust you to manage your time.