Sr Engineering Manager
About The Position
Clair is dedicated to providing financial freedom to American workers through a digital banking platform that enables instant access to earned wages. They achieve this by integrating their products directly into existing scheduling, workforce management, and payroll applications. As a Senior Engineering Manager, this role is pivotal in balancing rapid execution with sustainable scaling within a quickly growing company. The manager will be responsible for addressing "process debt," streamlining cross-functional workflows, and cultivating an environment where engineers can excel, ultimately optimizing the company's building processes.
Requirements
- 4–5+ years of direct engineering management experience, ideally leading teams through rapid growth in a series B or C startup.
- Proven ability to thrive in a scaling startup environment, comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and building while flying.
- Highly organized, a systems thinker who centralizes information, cleans up messy workflows, and makes execution easier for everyone, diligently tracking work and informing stakeholders.
- Strong background in software engineering with technical credibility to guide architectural decisions, provide necessary pushback, and earn team respect (without daily coding).
- Empathetic leader who deeply cares about the team, cultivates psychological safety, and fosters a culture of open, honest feedback for personal and professional growth.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing engineers, conducting impactful 1:1s, guiding career development, and ensuring team recognition.
- Apply exceptional organizational skills to engineering operations, identifying bottlenecks, improving documentation standards (like PRDs), and creating clear, lightweight processes.
- Actively monitor team workloads to ensure sustainable delivery of high-quality work, preventing burnout and maintaining healthy boundaries.
- Serve as a bridge between Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Care, and other teams, ensuring transparent context sharing and preventing decision silos.
- Encourage the team to experiment with AI and new tooling for efficiency and advocate for time investment in Engineer-led initiatives outside core product roadmaps.
Benefits
- A team that genuinely cares about the product and each other (high retention intent).
- High autonomy to make decisions that directly impact the daily work of the engineering org.
- Clair is willing to invest in being at the forefront of technology and pushing boundaries, encouraging experimentation with new tools.
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
- Fully-paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
- Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
- Work from home setup allowance
- Access to your earnings every day on Clair
- Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
