Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering

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...

Risk Engineering owns the systems that execute Imprint's risk decisions in real time: transaction authorization and fraud scoring on every card swipe, the underwriting pipeline that evaluates every application, and the vendor integrations that power both. These are latency-sensitive, high-stakes distributed systems ...

Own real-time authorization and fraud decisioning: Every card swipe runs through systems your team builds. Decisions happen in milliseconds, failures are visible immediately, and a wrong answer costs real money in either direction: fraud losses on one side, declined good customers on the other. You set the bar for h...

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
You've owned latency-sensitive, high-availability distributed systems in production, where the cost of a wrong decision is measured in real dollars
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
Experience in risk, fraud, underwriting, or payments is a plus

This is a backend team. 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.