Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager

Binti builds software for state and county government agencies, focusing on reinventing social services. We started in child welfare, with the mission of helping every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. To date, we’ve helped approve more than 100,000 families to foster or adopt, and we support over 49% of the nation’s child welfare system. We have expanded our product offerings in child welfare, moving more to the root of the problem, helping families stay together and avoid separation, and are now expanding horizontally across other areas in social services.

Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven software company based in San Francisco, CA. Investors include Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, and others. We’re a team of ~90 people and growing quickly. We care about creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can bring their full self to work. We have a huge, ambitious vision to rewire government to be more effective in expanding opportunities for people around the world, and we are looking for mission-driven, high-empathy, high-performance, and low-ego team members to join us on our exciting journey towards that vision.

Position Summary

As an Engineering Manager at Binti, you will lead a talented and dedicated engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. You will help set ambitious but achievable goals, design team-wide norms and processes to streamline operations, and coach your team to top performance. Ideally, you will bring a wealth of experience in SaaS product development, technical leadership, and a passion for leveraging technology to positively impact society.

Core Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of AI native product development: Binti is pioneering the future of vertical software platforms, you will thoughtfully and relentlessly drive us to the next level.

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of skilled engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, accountability, productivity, and high performance.

• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the technical roadmap, aligning with Binti’s mission and business objectives.

• Product Development: Oversee the end-to-end development process, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, user-friendly software that addresses the unique challenges of the child welfare space.

• Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry best practices to drive innovation within the engineering team, contributing to the long-term success and scalability of Binti’s platform.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, with a focus on user experience and system performance.

Sample Projects

• Use Binti’s AI software engineering stack every day to root out successive bottlenecks and hone our agentic development process.

• Facilitate the expansion of our AI Package by consistently surfacing our AI features across our platform.

• Leading architectural improvements to the platform capabilities at Binti’s foundation, allowing for a cohesive product experience across all the modules.

• Taking Binti’s next new module from 0 to 1 and beyond

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails

• React

• GraphQL

• Postgres

• Kubernetes & GCP

What We Value

• Team Leadership: Demonstrated success in leading and managing engineering teams to high performance, ideally in a SaaS or tech start-up environment with at least 5-7 years of management experience.

• Technical Expertise: Strong technical background with experience in full-stack development, cloud computing, and scalable architecture.

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to align technical strategies with business priorities and goals, contributing to the overall success and growth of the company.

• Collaborative Approach: Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Passion for Social Impact: A genuine interest in leveraging technology to address social challenges, with a strong sense of purpose in improving outcomes for children in need.

• Authenticity: People are more than their work selves, and a great manager and leader understands how to blend accountability, high performance, empathy, and fun.

Location

Binti is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Much of our team is local to the San Francisco Bay Area and works via a hybrid setup with Monday & Thursday in office. Our Satellite office in Seattle, Washington, sets their own in-office days and hybrid policies, but in general employees are encouraged to join the leadership team on the days when they will be in the office for collaboration and team cohesion.

Final selected candidates who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to undergo a background and reference check, which could include verification of employment and education, criminal history review, and, where applicable, fingerprinting.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)

• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents

• Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend

• 13 paid holidays; 11 federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus Election Day and the day after Thanksgiving

• 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant

• Sick/mental health time separate from vacation days (accrue up to a cap of 80 hours)

• 4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service at the company

• 401k, Commuter benefits, FSA, and DCFSA

• $5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA (court-appointed special advocates)

• $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development, with opportunities to attend trainings/conferences, on-site speaker series, and lunch and learns

• $300 reimbursement for initial office setup

• $50 a month effective work reimbursement to cover internet, electricity, office setup costs, or lunch/snacks with coworkers

• Paid jury duty

At Binti, we celebrate having a diverse team and believe our differences make us stronger. Binti is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.