About the Role:

As a hands-on Engineering Manager at Ledgy, you'll shape how thousands of employees worldwide experience equity ownership. Leading a team of 4-6 exceptional engineers, you'll balance hands-on technical contribution with people leadership, helping transform complex equity management into intuitive, empowering experiences. You'll report directly to the Head of Engineering and play a key role in scaling our platform.

You'll thrive in the role if you:

• Believe in equity's power to change lives and want to democratize access to ownership
• Are excited about transforming complex financial concepts into elegant user experiences
• Love developing people, watching engineers grow and tackle increasingly sophisticated challenges
• Want to remain technical while building scalable teams, processes, and architecture
• Have 3+ years experience in Engineering Management and 6+ years as a Software Engineer

Our tech stack:

We've have a modern, cohesive stack that lets us move fast while maintaining quality:

• Language: TypeScript
• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC
• Backend: tRPC, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform Cloud

In the first 30 days:

• Build meaningful relationships with your direct reports and understand their career aspirations
• Contribute code to features in production while gaining expertise in the domain of equity
• Join the engineering leadership team and understand how we translate product vision into technical reality

In the first 3 months:

• Deeply understand how your team's work impacts thousands of companies and their employees
• Drive technical excellence and maintain the team’s velocity by unblocking PR reviews, shipping small features, and helping coordinate complex work
• Have regular 1:1s with your reports and support them in their growth
• Shape technical strategy alongside Product and Design leadership
• Lead hiring for critical team roles

In the first 6 to 12 months:

• Be recognized as a technical leader who elevates your entire team's capabilities
• Continue reviewing PR and shipping code for non-blocking work
• Lead meaningful career development conversations and conduct performance reviews with your reports
• Own engineering initiatives that define how we scale our platform and organization
• Influence product direction as a trusted partner to leadership across the company

The interview process:

• CV Review: We review your background to see if there's mutual alignment for the role
• Getting to know you (30 min): A call with our Head of Engineering to discuss your experience, motivations, and answers any questions you might have about Ledgy and the role
• Live Coding (75 min): We'll present you with an equity domain problem to solve collaboratively using your preferred language and IDE
• System Design (60 min): You'll walk us through an architecture you've significantly contributed to in the past, and we'll explore different aspects based on your experience
• Mock 1:1 (45 min): Mock coaching conversation with one of our engineers to see how you approach people management and development
• Culture & Vision (30 min): Meet one of our founders to discuss Ledgy's mission, your motivations, and how you think about equity's role in building great companies
• Offer 🎉