Engineering Manager

We are:

A rapidly growing fintech company that provides technology infrastructure powering the future of financial services. Leveraging our proprietary real-time banking core, we deliver innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, lending and crypto solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, CR is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.

While Cross River is based in the United States, the majority of development activity is based in Israel. Our main office is in Har-Hotzvim, Jerusalem, with a flexible hybrid work model.

You are:

A leader, who takes pride in the accomplishments of your team. You can develop trust and give guidance and space to top talent and empower them to be their best. You are passionate about exploring new technology and using it to make an actionable impact to the future of fintech. You can balance the needs of the business and the team's goals, with, a strong value for code quality and adherence to implementing best practices.

You will:

- Lead, build and manage an engineering team and direct the development of services and infrastructure for one of our key products.
- Develop an inclusive team in which people are empowered to do the best work of their careers.
- Mentor, grow and coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and chart a fulfilling career path, while keeping them engaged and focused on the product and company vision.

- Partner with Product and Architecture to break down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterate on their design and implementation and turn our vision into a tangible roadmap.
- Contribute to owning and delivering processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

- Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent software engineering decisions.
- Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Cross River culture and product.

You have:

- Strong prior managerial experience of more than 5 years managing a team of 6+ engineers.

- Exquisite brokering skills: regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
- Proficiency in the English language with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Sufficient for achieving consensus and success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
- Demonstrated progressive experience in a leadership role with current technical experience.
- You have professional experience with containerization or similar technologies in large production environments.
- Experience managing infrastructure in a Cloud-native environment.
- Track record of carrying a teams technology to the next level, by make measurable and tangible improvements to the business and development life-cycle
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Bonus:

- Experience building high-volume and high-throughput distributed systems for product-minded organizations.
- Experience in fintech or other complex financial infrastructure companies
- Experience working in a global, distributed, or otherwise multi-cultural team.
- Experience scaling a successful SaaS product.
- Computer science education or equivalent experience

Why join us:

Cross River Technologies develops software infrastructure for the fintech industry. Providing innovative technological solutions for various financial services, including payments, credit cards, and loans.

Globally, Cross River has 900 employees, 170 of whom are based in the R&D center at the Jerusalem offices.

We offer a wide range of wellness benefits including ongoing learning and development opportunities; monthly wellness reimbursement; volunteering opportunities; charitable donation matching; Keren Hishtalmut on full salary; private health and dental insurance; advanced study fund and various company events.

We place a strong emphasis on employee satisfaction and growth.

Cross River is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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