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Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering
$220K–$235K
New York City +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco - Experience
- 5+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads the Risk Engineering team responsible for real-time card authorization and fraud decisioning, the underwriting pipeline, and production vendor integrations.
What you'll do
- Set the technical standards and roadmap for latency-sensitive risk systems, including design, testing, and operations.
- Prioritize work across Credit, Fraud, Product, and Compliance; assess vendor and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Develop and retain a strong engineering team, delegate domain ownership, and provide clear feedback and communication.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including building, developing, and retaining strong teams.
- Strong engineering background and technical credibility, with experience managing Staff-level ICs and growing senior engineers.
- Production ownership of latency-sensitive, high-availability distributed systems where incorrect decisions have real financial costs.
- Experience leading through rapid growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change.
Nice to have
- Experience in risk, fraud, underwriting, or payments.
- Experience using AI tools to stay close to technical work, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them.
Pay
$220K – $235K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
AI focus
Uses AI tools to investigate codebases, assess work complexity and feasibility, and clarify ambiguous requests; managers need technical judgment to evaluate design trade-offs.
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