Tech Lead Manager, Software Engineering
Earnin
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ABOUT EARNIN
As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for people living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and excited to bring on world-class talent to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
EarnIn is becoming an AI-native company, embedding AI agents into how we build, analyze, and operate across every function. Teams use AI Agents to move from ideas to execution faster. By letting agents handle repetitive tasks, our people can focus on judgment, creativity, and hard problems. We pair this experimentation with the strict review and security guardrails our regulated financial environment requires, always keeping a focus on privacy and the people who rely on our products.
As a company, we are becoming AI-native, and we encourage you to use AI tools throughout much of your interview process. If you use AI during the live interview, just say so; a quick, natural mention of how it helped and why you are using it is all we need. What we're evaluating is your judgment, reasoning, and ability to own and defend your work, not whether AI was involved. Some rounds, particularly those focused on your career history and past experiences, will not allow the use of AI, and we'll let you know of those in advance. When in doubt, ask your recruiter or interviewer directly.
We're on a mission to reinvent the financial system and make it work for people. We are looking for an experienced professional to lead a full-stack engineering team comprising backend and mobile engineers. As a hands-on Tech Lead Manager for one of our core services teams, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute to the design and development of some of our early-stage, innovative products. You will work with your cross-functional partners and team to shape the direction of these products and help make them significant drivers for the company.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Partner closely with Product and other engineering teams to improve business metrics and build new features. Examples include improving user acquisition metrics, cross-selling and upselling products, and improving user experience.
- Drive the design and implementation of new product areas and features. Break complex problems down to their bare essentials, translate that complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code.
- Guide your team through ambiguity and ensure technical excellence through rapid experimentation cycles.
- Guide your team to strong execution—make pragmatic decisions, help them launch MVPs quickly, and iterate based on feedback.
- Lead your team through frequent pivots and evolving priorities in a fast-changing environment.
- Recruit other great engineers for your team and support recruiting efforts across teams.
- Mentor and coach the engineers on your team. Help them advance their careers by enabling them to do the best work of their lives.
- Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high-quality products.
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a small team as a manager.
- You're just as energized diving into architecture, writing clean, scalable code, and solving challenging technical problems as you are mentoring engineers, shaping team culture, and driving delivery. You know when to roll up your sleeves and when to empower others—and you're equally excited to do both.
- You can work comfortably with a cross-functional team of PMs, Analysts, and mobile and back-end-focused engineers.
- You have led a team that consistently delivered high-quality output on critical infrastructure projects.
- You are a creative, tenacious problem solver with a get-it-done attitude
- You tend to be the standard bearer who takes a great deal of pride in your work and can inspire others to rise to the occasion
- You can create and maintain a positive, healthy team environment in which everyone is supported, encouraged, and meaningfully challenged to do great work
- Preferred tech skills: C#, .NET/.NET Core, Kotlin, Python, SQL, Databricks, AWS, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, Kafka, CI/CD, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar tools) as part of your software development workflow
- Experience in fintech is a plus.
- Experience leading the design, implementation, and deployment of high-scale cross-functional payments systems.
At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.
Benefits
- professional development
About this role
EarnIn is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead a full-stack engineering team building core financial products for their earned wage access platform. You'll split your time between hands-on technical work—designing systems, writing code, and solving complex problems—and people leadership, mentoring engineers while guiding the team through rapid iteration and frequent pivots. The role sits at the intersection of product strategy and engineering execution, requiring you to partner with PMs and cross-functional teams to ship features that move business metrics while maintaining technical excellence.
This position demands someone with at least seven years of software engineering experience and two-plus years managing a small team, ideally with exposure to fintech, payments systems, or high-scale infrastructure. You should be equally comfortable architecting microservices and distributed systems as you are recruiting talent, building team culture, and making pragmatic trade-offs between speed and quality. The tech stack leans toward C#/.NET, Kotlin, Python, AWS, and cloud-native development, though what matters more is your ability to learn and lead across a mixed backend and mobile engineering organization.
The hybrid Bengaluru role offers the chance to shape early-stage products at a well-funded company that's embedding AI into its engineering workflow. EarnIn explicitly encourages the use of AI tools during development and interviews, valuing your judgment and ownership over whether you used assistance. If you thrive in ambiguity, take pride in shipping quality work, and want to lead engineers solving real problems for people living paycheck to paycheck, this could be a strong fit.
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