Engineering Manager

About Middesk

Our goal is to make it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we have been a leading disruptor in the business identity market. While consumer identity technology has seen significant modernization and digitization over the past decade, business identity and verification largely continues to be a manual process, specifically in the context of onboarding businesses to receive access to financial products and services. Our best-in-class business identity platform provides access to complete, up-to-date information that financial services institutions and fintechs need to make educated decisions about their customers and facilitate rapid onboarding and transacting. Our vision is that every company can instantly gain access to all the data, products, and services they need to establish and grow their business with ease. Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to Forbes Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader in business verification by digital identity strategy firm, Liminal.

About Middesk Engineering

"Velocity" is the rate at which we effect realized value for our customers, not the rate at which we ship code. We believe that great products result when technical excellence and craft is combined with deep understanding of our customers and the problems we can help them solve. We’re a humble, self-motivated team that seeks to ship early and ship often; we pride ourselves with being willing to roll up our sleeves to solve even the messiest problems our customers present to us.  Middesk Engineering is customer-first engineering.

 The Role

We’re looking for an engineering leader to lead product engineering pods focused on our core business verification product. Our business verification product enables our customers to seamlessly onboard SMBs by leveraging 1st party access to authoritative government data sets. Middesk organizes our teams into focused pods of 3-5 engineers. 

On day one, you’ll embed yourself on one of our existing pods, partner with product and design to shape business and product decisions and team up with engineers on your team to keep the team moving forward, shipping quickly and responsively adjusting to customer feedback. You’ll ultimately be responsible for 8-10 engineers across two of our identity pods. 

We’re a small team of hands-on contributors, so you’ll roll up your sleeves when needed—whether that’s writing stories, taking on engineering on-call duties, debugging a flaky build, or shipping a fix. Ultimately, your primary responsibility will be the success of your team. This includes hiring, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team delivers impactful results for the business.

What You’ll Do:  

• Manage and coach a team of full-stack engineers, supporting their growth by identifying development opportunities, providing continuous feedback, and addressing performance management needs.

• Partner with our recruiting team to hire and build your team with humble,  self-driven engineers as we scale our engineering organization.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Go-to-Market teams to shape your team’s roadmap and strategy.

• Work closely with our Foundation team to quickly ship and release new data products and insights for our customers.

• Engage directly with our customers to understand their needs and partner closely with our data teams to address them effectively.

• Collaborate with the Engineering leadership team to continue to define our culture and improve our engineering team through scalable and repeatable processes.

What We’re Looking For:

• 2+ years of experience leading product engineering teams in either an engineering manager or team lead capacity.

• 6+ years of product engineering experience as an individual contributor, with strong technical skills that enable you to quickly learn and deeply engage with our codebase with your team.

• A strong understanding of customer needs, with a proven track record of aligning engineering goals to deliver impactful, user-focused outcomes.

• Ability to effectively manage stakeholders, communicate in a structured and clear manner, and drive accountability across the team.

•  demonstrated ability to grow and manage a team through coaching, mentorship, and providing constructive performance feedback.

Nice to Haves:

• Previous experience at early or mid-stage startups as a founder, team lead, or early-stage manager.

• Experience working on data products, Fintech, or Enterprise SaaS products.