Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

As a Senior Engineering Manager on our Product Engineering team, you will lead and scale high-impact web pods to accelerate the delivery of customer-facing products critical to the organization's growth. Your teams will be experts in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and will partner closely with Product, Analytics, Design, and Marketing to deliver measurable, data-driven business outcomes. You will also be leading a small pod of mobile engineers. This role is ideal for a strong senior technical people leader who excels in metrics-driven environments, drives clarity and urgency across teams, and amplifies impact through strong systems, processes, and talent development. You will also play a key role in leveraging AI tools and workflows to meaningfully increase engineering velocity, experimentation speed, and innovation.

This position will be hybrid from our Bengaluru office, as part of our expanding site, with 2+ days in the office. EarnIn provides excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to collaborate with and travel to our Mountain View HQ and Bangkok Site. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, scale, and operate multiple Engineering pods, setting clear direction, ownership, and accountability tied to metrics.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Design, and Marketing leadership to translate strategy into roadmaps, experiments, and durable systems.
• Own delivery excellence for your teams—improving speed, efficiency, predictability, and quality while balancing rapid experimentation with long-term maintainability.
• Establish and reinforce a metrics-first culture, ensuring teams define success clearly, review outcomes rigorously, and iterate based on data.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership across modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), including server-side and client-side rendering.
• Engage at the code and system level as needed to unblock teams, guide technical direction, and maintain a high engineering bar.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered development tools and workflows to reduce toil, accelerate experimentation, and improve overall developer effectiveness.
• Build strong, durable cross-geo partnerships with US-based teams, creating clear operating rhythms and communication patterns across time zones.
•  Attract, hire, and retain top-tier engineering talent; develop senior engineers and tech leads into force multipliers.
• Coach engineers and leaders at all levels through feedback, career development, and clear expectations.
• Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement, while ensuring platform stability and reliability.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives, standards, and leadership discussions across EarnIn.

• 4+ years of professional software development experience, with 2+ years leading engineering teams or multiple pods, plus a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to scale teams and execution in fast-moving, metrics-driven environments. 
   
• Strong track record of delivering sustained impact in Growth, experimentation, or consumer-facing web products.
• Passionate, trusted people leader who builds high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Excellent knowledge of front-end web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and ReactJS.
• Experience building and supporting client-side and server-side rendered web applications at scale.
• Highly metrics-oriented—focused on outcomes, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional cross-functional partner to PMs, Analysts, Designers, and Marketers.
• Clear, effective communicator who can bridge teams across time zones and cultures.
• Comfortable using—or eager to adopt—modern AI tools to improve engineering workflows and experimentation velocity
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to guide architecture, review designs, and mentor senior engineers
• Bonus: Experience with SEO, performance optimization, and discoverability-focused web development.
• Bonus: Broad understanding of development across the stack, with comfort in reasoning about APIs, services, data flows, and experimentation platforms beyond the web layer.