Engineering Manager, Finance Engineering

About This Role

This engineering manager role leads the team building a platform for finance events, an append-only ledger, and an accounting engine, ensuring every financial transaction is accurately recorded. The platform supports both human users and Claude agents, handling the increasing volume of financial data as Claude usage grows. The ideal candidate will hire and grow the team, and maintain high standards for platform development and production operation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire, coach and hold a high bar for engineering quality
• Own delivery of the front door for finance events and its governed contracts, and the accounting ledger and engine, so every event is posted exactly once and can be traced back to its source
• Be accountable for the production services that other engineering teams call in real time, such as the tax and collections services in the billing flow
• Make sure finance apps and agents have the platform support they need: SDKs and frameworks, scoped access, SOX guardrails, observability, and the capabilities finance needs that claude products do not provide out of the box
• Define and own the reliability and correctness bar: SLOs on the services other teams call, tests that check key upstream calculations on every change, and daily accuracy and completeness checks from source to books
• Align on technical design, data contracts and APIs with engineering leaders in Billing, Compute and Infra
• Drive down the time it takes finance to support a new product, program or compute buildout

Requirements

• Have led teams that build and run high-volume backend systems where correctness matters, such as ledgers, billing, payments, metering or other systems of record
• Have built or run event-driven systems with idempotent processing, replay and backfill, and know what it takes to keep them correct in production
• Have sound judgment on platform boundaries, data contracts and API design
• Have hired and grown engineers, and set engineering standards for platforms
• Work well across functions, with upstream engineering teams, finance and auditors, and explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners, in writing and in the room
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Nice to have:

• Have 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years total in the industry
• Built developer platforms or paved paths used by other builders