Senior Engineering Manager

In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we're...

Engineering leadership is the lever for this next stage. As Imprint expands into new financial products, launches new brand partnerships, and scales the infrastructure underneath all of it, the quality of our engineering teams determines the quality of everything we ship. AI has made execution faster; the differenti...

Bring structure to complex, ambiguous domains: Imprint's products sit at the intersection of payments, credit, compliance, and brand strategy. You'll lead a team through problems that aren't fully scoped, where the right answer requires synthesizing technical constraints with product, legal, and financial realities.

5+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of building, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams
You've managed through periods of rapid growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change, and your teams came out stronger
A strong technical foundation: you were a strong engineer before moving into management, and you've maintained technical credibility through hands-on engagement or modern AI tools
You've managed Staff-level ICs and helped senior engineers grow into bigger roles
Experience in domains with real complexity: financial systems, distributed infrastructure, regulated environments, or similarly demanding technical areas
You communicate with clarity and directness in writing, in 1:1s, in rooms with executives, and in rooms with engineers
You drive delivery through your team, not around them. You know how to scope work, set priorities, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work
Experience using AI tools to stay close to technical work (investigating codebases, assessing feasibility, bringing clarity to asks), or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
Some of our teams are full-stack (frontend, backend, and mobile); others are backend-focused. We're looking for strong engineering leaders regardless of your specific technical background.
We don't expect every candidate to match every bullet. If you're excited about what we're building and confident you can contribute, we'd love to talk.
Our backend runs on Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Read more about how we build at Imprint on our engineering blog.