Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

Join EasyPost, a rapidly growing YC unicorn, as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Finance Infrastructure. Lead the engineering team responsible for EasyPost’s financial platform, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability. You will manage team health, guide technical decisions, and collaborate with various teams. This role requires deep technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain critical financial infrastructure. Success demands managing risk, understanding high-level architecture, and effective communication. The position offers a competitive compensation package and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
• Deep knowledge of software design, system architecture, and scalable services, particularly in Finance or SaaS environments
• Proven experience in building and maintaining financial or billing platforms
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures and horizontal scalability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to drive delivery and align technical decisions with business objectives

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Infrastructure engineering team to deliver secure, scalable financial infrastructure
• Maintain and improve platform stability, monitoring, and issue response processes to ensure high availability and compliance
• Oversee roadmap development and execution for infrastructure that enables accurate usage tracking and cost attribution
• Coordinate across departments to support development of real-time billing and financial data capabilities for new products
• Guide technical decision-making across systems and teams to ensure solutions meet long-term needs
• Foster a strong engineering culture, including staffing plans, 1:1s, mentoring, and recruiting top talent
• Advocate for architectural clarity and maintain a strong platform mindset with clear service boundaries
• Promote best practices around security, observability, and maintainability of finance systems
• Partner with internal stakeholders and customers to define requirements, communicate status, and deliver tools that integrate into their product development lifecycle

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Competitive compensation package and equity
• Monthly work from home stipend of $50
• Flexible work schedule and paid time off
• Collaborative culture with a supportive team
• A great place to work with unlimited growth opportunities
• The opportunity to make massive contributions at a hyper-growth company
• Make an impact on a product helping ship millions of packages per day