Remote Engineering Manager, Front-end & Fullstack

ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

The crushing weight of debt is something that we believe holds people back from reaching their dreams and making a splash in the world. So in 2013, after seeing our friends and family struggle with student loans, we created Splash Financial.

Over the years, our mission has expanded to include helping people with other forms of debt - such as refinancing credit cards, which are at all time highs in the US. And we’ve been able to refinance $6+ Billion in loans through our network of Splash, powered credit union and bank partners who leverage our marketplace and automated loan processing technology. And we’ve raised over $70 million from investors like partners of DST Global, Citi Ventures, TruStage Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, and more.

But at our core, we’re still that little company from Cleveland with a big dream: to make people more powerful than their debt and we’re just getting started..

ABOUT OUR WORKPLACE:

Splash is remote-first, and proud of it. We spend our days creating ways to simplify financial products, then get them into the hands of people who need help. Right now, we’re focused on developing financial technologies that fundamentally change the way the industry lends. And to hire the best, we provide the best: great health insurance, competitive salaries, and unique benefits like quarterly meet-ups, access to community, and engagement tools. And although we’ve been around since 2013, we still love to think like a start-up — a place that empowers good people to do great things, fast.

We’re friendly, folksy, and have Slack channels for both #kids-and-pets and #food. We’re good people who want to make a difference in the financial landscape, and we approach tackling challenges with creativity, passion and urgency.

About the Role:

Splash Financial is looking for a technical Engineering Manager to join our technology department. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of technical people management experience, is as comfortable in a backend architectural discussion as they are in defining a build and deployment pipeline for front-end codebases and developing UIs, experienced in collaborating directly with a product owner counterpart as well as cross-departmental stakeholders, and is an excellent communicator. We’re looking for someone to come in and make a big impact on our technical organization. You will be part of the leadership bench and have an active role in building and leading us into technological advances for our platform and products.

What you’ll do at Splash:

• Responsible for leading an engineering team which is mostly front-end oriented, with some backend responsibilities
• Lead team in building and managing Splash Financial’s public facing website, affiliate partnerships, and part of the online product application experience
• Collaborate with internal teams in various departments to align on priorities, sequence work, and set and reset expectations proactively.
• Performance manage, grow, and elevate team talent through regular 1:1s, regular performance reviews and calibration sessions with other managers, and individualizing with care, identifying strengths and areas for improvement in your reports, and working with them proactively towards being their best.
• Implementing best practice engineering methods and striving for operational excellence across the teams.
• Work with senior leadership to contribute to the vision and OKR setting for the engineering department and other engineer team leads to foster community of technical learning and growth

What you’ll bring to Splash:

• Expert level knowledge of Javascript and its ecosystem required.
• Strong functional programming skills required.
• 4+ years of people management, leading technical teams of engineers (in fintech or tech startup preferred).
• Experienced in designing in a microservices architecture paradigm and strong to expert level knowledge of one or more backend languages, databases, cloud hosting providers, infrastructure as code, and interservice communication protocols required.
• Experience with orchestrated distributed systems and first-class workflows is a major plus.
• Experience with remote observability tools for logging, monitoring, and alerting is required.
• Excellent written communication, including technical writing, and the habit of designing deliberately, first, through design documents.
• A can do, positive attitude.
• A tendency to learn the business and the domain it operates in and a focus on driving business outcomes.

SPLASHERS ENJOY:

• Fully remote work freedom
• Competitive salary packages
• Flexible PTO + 9 company holidays
• Equity: Share in our start-up success
• Comprehensive and affordable insurance benefits
• Paid parental leave for both caregivers
• Essential equipment to get the job done
• 401(k) for your future savings
• Quarterly meet-ups: In person & virtual fun
• Awesome Splash swag to flaunt your team spirit

Employment at Splash is based on individual merit. Opportunities are open to all, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, creed, age, handicap, national origin, ancestry, military status, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, affectional preference, or other irrelevant factors. Splash is an equal opportunity employer.