Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
Committed to DEI&B - Mogul Diversity Badge, 2022
Great Place to Work Certified, August 2022 - August 2023 USA
Overview
SmartBiz is on a mission to transform small business banking. SmartBiz is the leading technology-powered small business financing platform equipping entrepreneurs with access to the right capital at the right time. To date, we’ve connected borrowers with more than $9 billion in funding while increasing efficiency for our network of banks and trusted lending partners. More than 230,000 entrepreneurs have utilized our platform to access the funding they need to grow, with 60%+ of loans made to minority, women, or veteran-owned businesses.
Position Overview
Technology is the heart of what we do at SmartBiz and the platform provides the critical foundation for our products.
Our Platform Team is where we innovate and impact how underwriting has traditionally been done, how a bank processes a loan, reviews a credit file, and how calculations are done on risk/credit worthiness.
Where others see complexity, you see elegant and scalable services. You know how to juggle the ask of multiple consumers, working closely with product and architecture, to deliver on the needs of the business (and small businesses and banks).
How You Will Make An Impact
- Coach, Manage, and Develop the Platform team to deliver on key infrastructure for the product roadmap
- Drive the technical health of the platform components
- Own the architecture strategy and roadmap and ensure the teams are operating at the forefront of the best practices for SmartBiz
- Act as a thought partner to leadership and colleagues across engineering and product and translate strategy into execution and delivery
- Deliver highly observable services using distributed tracing, logging, and metric collection
Who You Are
- 2+ years experience leading Platforms-focused engineering teams
- Ability to build strong teams via hiring, balancing the needs of the team now and into the future
- Excellent communication skills to partner with other engineering teams, product and the rest of the business
- Strong technical experience with focus in Python microservices enabling the ability to roll up their sleeves as needed
- Ability to define and continuously improve the architecture of cloud-based microservices, event-driven applications and integrations with external applications and partners
- Ability to define the longer term technical strategy around scalable service platforms, APIs, SDKs, etc.
Opportunities & Benefits We Will Provide
- Help redefine small business banking
- Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their domestic partners and dependents
- 100% paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- 401k plan
More About SmartBiz
- 60% + of the loans funded by our banks are for women-owned, minority, or veteran businesses
- Great Place to Work Certified, August 2022 - September 2024 USA
- Committed to DEI&B - Mogul Diversity Badge, 2022
- 2021 Top Small Business Lending Platform Award by LendIt Fintech
- American Banker's Best Places to Work in Financial Technology in 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Rated "excellent" by TrustPilot review website
- The company has raised $47 million in venture funding. Investors include Venrock, Investor Growth Capital, and First Round Capital.