synctera - Engineering Manager

• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead a small, experienced team doing high-ownership work in a regulated environment. This is not a role for someone who wants to sit above the work. It’s for someone who can help engineers make good decisions, keep teams focused through ambiguity, and stay close enough to the technical work to contribute when it makes sense. • This role supports teams building both customer-facing compliance products and the core platform capabilities that power them. The work spans data-intensive systems for automated compliance monitoring and control testing, as well as foundational platform services such as tenant management, event and webhook infrastructure, API ingress and egress, and other shared capabilities used across engineering. • The right person for this role can turn ambiguous problems into a clear plan, make practical tradeoffs, and keep teams focused on the work that matters most. We are not looking for someone who only manages from a distance or relies on generic leadership language. We are looking for someone who has actually led backend or platform teams, improved how they operate, and worked in systems where correctness, reliability, and operational judgment matter. • WHAT WE BUILD WITH • Our backend services are primarily written in Go. Our frontend is React with TypeScript. We run on Google Cloud Platform and commonly work with Postgres, Redis, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Terraform, and OpenAPI-based service contracts. • 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer • 3+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including coaching, performance feedback, and hiring involvement • Experience leading backend or platform teams working on systems with real operational complexity • Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems • Enough technical depth to contribute to architecture discussions, challenge assumptions, and jump into the code when useful • Experience navigating ambiguous problems and turning them into clear plans, priorities, and tradeoffs • Good judgment around scope, sequencing, and risk, especially when work spans multiple stakeholders or competing demands • A track record of being accountable for team output, not just individual contribution • Experience in fintech, banking, infrastructure, developer tooling, or other regulated systems is strongly preferred • Comfort working in environments where reliability, compliance, auditability, and operational risk matter