Pomelo’s mission is to increase financial access and empowerment for immigrants and their loved ones back home. 

We are proud to be the first financial technology platform to combine consumer credit and global remittances. Our product solves the worst aspects of money transfer by empowering our customers to use credit rather than cash. At the same time, we help immigrants establish their financial future in their new country by building positive credit history with their existing remittance obligations and financially include their loved ones in emerging economies with access to modern financial instruments.

We’re a team of ~45 and are growing our San Francisco headquarters. Our investors include Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures (formerly of Founders Fund, CEO at Opendoor, former COO of Square), Kevin Hartz (Co-founder/CEO of Xoom and Eventbrite) of A* Capital, The Chainsmokers, The Weeknd, and more.

The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be an advocate, coach, and mentor for your team while solving various engineering challenges, doing hands-on coding, and scaling product success at a fast-paced start up. Our ideal candidate leverages their leadership, technical expertise, and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, you’ll help establish the team’s vision and see it through.

Our Team has a range of projects we work on, and is responsible for solving core platform problems. This involves areas including money, transactions, fraud, and risk. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.). You should also be strong at identifying and building the right abstractions to support engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Help manage a high-performing team of engineers while coaching, mentoring, and advocating for them
  • Collaborate on our technical vision and lead discussions and implementation of complex projects
  • Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems to allow us to scale the code base, drive productivity, and develop the team
  • Drive effective collaboration between engineering teams, product, and cross-functional colleagues
  • Connect overall needs of the business with short and long-term technical requirements
  • Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback
  • Help attract and hire top talent by partnering with our talent acquisition team
  • Foster our culture of excellence, velocity, and humility

About the team

Our current tech stack includes:

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Lambda
  • Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript

Required Qualifications

  • Typically 5+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years of management experience
  • Startup experience with a demonstrated ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
  • A successful track record of leading projects and shipping high-quality products 

Nice-to-have Qualifications

  • Curious about new technologies (e.g. Rust, GraphQL)
  • Experience managing both local and remote team members

Benefits and Perks

  • ❤️ A meaningful mission and an opportunity for direct societal impact. We’re putting real money back in the hands of the people who need it most and helping immigrants and their families realize the American dream.
  • 👥 An amazing team and culture. You’ll have peers from both top tech companies (e.g. Cash App, Google, Twitter, Uber) and other successful startups (e.g. Affirm, AfterPay, MemSQL). We empower each other to do great work and continue growing.
  • 💪 Opportunity for major impact, learning, and growth.
  • 🏥 Platinum-level health insurance (medical, dental, vision) — with 100% covered by the company for you and 50% for dependents.
  • 🌴 PTO: 3 weeks in your first year, 4 weeks thereafter, plus national holidays
  • ✈️ $1,500 annual travel stipend
  • 😌 $300 annual wellness stipend
  • 🗺 Twice-a-year company retreats. Previous trips include skiing in Park City, getting sun and surf in Cabo, Mexico, and a cruise excursion to The Bahamas.
  • 🍽️ In Office Meals: Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided daily

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