Engineering Manager

OVERVIEW

This position can be based out of San Francisco, New York, or remote (we accept candidates from many states).

Join us as an Engineering Manager in our Payments organization, where you’ll be leading our efforts to scale the payment engine’s processing capacity by 100x in the next year. Modern Treasury powers the payment operations for enterprises working sending millions of payments globally, and our platform needs to support their payment transmission and bank data ingestion scale in real time. You will guide the technical strategies underpinning reliable payment transmission at scale and high throughput data ingestion and persistence. You’ll chart new paradigms for high-throughput batch and real-time payment processing. You will use your considerable experience optimizing programmatic systems for low latency and concurrency to power the instant economy platform of tomorrow. Your leadership and focus on reliability will be critical to the platform’s growth over the next year. By refining and expanding the payment core’s performance levels, you will help Modern Treasury unlock and service enterprise payment volumes.

As an engineering leader of this team, you will…

• Craft a strategy to scale payment transmission and enable enterprise payment operations at 100x higher volumes than seen today.

• Scale the platform’s bank data ingestion capabilities to power real-time reconciliation.

• Enhance and iterate how Modern Treasury quantifies resilient and robust payment systems at scale throughout the software development lifecycle

• Balance plans for investing in proactive scaling efforts and critical day-to-day uptime.

• Work with technical leaders within the engineering organization to build highly observable and fault-tolerant payment processing architectures.

• Evaluate and contribute to the team’s personnel and technical development

• Mentor and build development paths for engineers at all stages in their journey.

REQUIREMENTS

We’re looking for an experienced technical leader with the following criteria.

• Minimum 2 or more contiguous years in engineering management.

• 4 or more years as an individual contributor.

• Have built, operated and managed a high performance, distributed software platform.

• Have designed fault tolerant, highly reliable software systems at scale.

• Have implemented architectural refactors safely and have worked with with batch processing or real-time software systems.

• (Bonus) Have applied these skills within Payments or Fintech.

ABOUT MODERN TREASURY

At Modern Treasury, we’re dedicated to empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology to streamline and optimize their financial workflows, from payments and reconciliations to treasury management. As a rapidly growing startup, we offer a fast-paced and collaborative work environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on shaping the future of finance.

Modern Treasury connects directly to the bank on behalf of our customers. With this connection, we deliver real-time and deep financial product experience built directly on top of payment rails including ACH, Wires, Checks, RTP, and FedNow. We have built direct connections to dozens of the worlds largest banks and support over ten distinct payment rails. Our customers use our products to do things like move money to or from their users, automate back-office work, and record their transaction ledgers. The companies that can use Modern Treasury move over $750 trillion a year via bank payments, as compared to only $2 trillion per year on card payments.

Modern Treasury is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual’s race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Modern Treasury participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.