Engineering Manager, Privacy
Budget / Salary$169,000–265,000
TypeFull-time job
LocationUnited States
Posted3 hours ago
Privacy is the virtual card platform giving consumers and small businesses complete control over their online payments.
Our virtual cards protect 250,000+ users across the U.S., processing over $3 billion in transactions with bank-level security and encryption. From merchant-locked cards that can't be used anywhere else if stolen, to spending limits that block unauthorized charges, to one-click pausing that stops subscriptions instantly, Privacy puts financial control back in users' hands.
We're building a future where every online payment is secure by default, free from data breaches, unauthorized charges, and hidden fees. We're proud to have been named one of Forbes' "Top 100 Most Customer-Centric Companies" and featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Wirecutter.
Privacy is the product that started it all. What began as Privacy.com grew into Lithic, now a Series C company backed by world-class investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. Our dedicated team of 35 sits at the heart of Lithic's 170+ person organization, spanning 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team behind Privacy.com through its next phase of growth. You will lead a nimble team of engineers who own the entire Privacy.com product scope. The stack is primarily NodeJS and DocumentDB on AWS ECS Fargate. This is a player-coach role. We expect you to spend roughly a third of your time hands-on coding while growing the team and keeping it focused on the highest-impact work.
What You’ll Do:
Lead and grow a team of engineers, owning performance, development, and overall team health
Stay hands-on, spending roughly a third of your time coding, reviewing designs, and unblocking the team
Ensure high reliability and correctness across the Privacy.com product, including card processing
Own multi-month initiatives from planning to launch, partnering with engineers on architectural direction while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned
Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work
Make thoughtful tradeoffs between long-term platform investment and immediate product value
Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, and pragmatic reliability improvements
Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly
Recruit, hire, and retain strong engineering talent
Participate in and help evolve the team’s on-call rotation
What You Bring:
Experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and hiring
Strong technical judgment and system design skills, especially for distributed systems and high-reliability production services
Comfort staying close to the work, with the ability to code, review designs, and unblock the team
Experience shipping and operating production services, with a bias toward measurable reliability and pragmatic iteration
Experience leading a team through large, multi-month projects while balancing long-term investment against near-term delivery
Experience with NodeJS and AWS (or closely related stacks), and an ability to ramp quickly where the stack is unfamiliar
Strong cross-functional communication skills and an ability to keep teams aligned under time pressure
Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve
An interest in fintech and payments is preferred
The annual US salary range for this role is $169,000 - $265,000 plus equity. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.
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Benefits for US Employees:
Unlimited PTO
12-weeks fully paid parental leave
4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary)
Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year
3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account
Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match
401(k) match
Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD
Originally posted on Himalayas
Our virtual cards protect 250,000+ users across the U.S., processing over $3 billion in transactions with bank-level security and encryption. From merchant-locked cards that can't be used anywhere else if stolen, to spending limits that block unauthorized charges, to one-click pausing that stops subscriptions instantly, Privacy puts financial control back in users' hands.
We're building a future where every online payment is secure by default, free from data breaches, unauthorized charges, and hidden fees. We're proud to have been named one of Forbes' "Top 100 Most Customer-Centric Companies" and featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Wirecutter.
Privacy is the product that started it all. What began as Privacy.com grew into Lithic, now a Series C company backed by world-class investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. Our dedicated team of 35 sits at the heart of Lithic's 170+ person organization, spanning 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team behind Privacy.com through its next phase of growth. You will lead a nimble team of engineers who own the entire Privacy.com product scope. The stack is primarily NodeJS and DocumentDB on AWS ECS Fargate. This is a player-coach role. We expect you to spend roughly a third of your time hands-on coding while growing the team and keeping it focused on the highest-impact work.
What You’ll Do:
Lead and grow a team of engineers, owning performance, development, and overall team health
Stay hands-on, spending roughly a third of your time coding, reviewing designs, and unblocking the team
Ensure high reliability and correctness across the Privacy.com product, including card processing
Own multi-month initiatives from planning to launch, partnering with engineers on architectural direction while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned
Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work
Make thoughtful tradeoffs between long-term platform investment and immediate product value
Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, and pragmatic reliability improvements
Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly
Recruit, hire, and retain strong engineering talent
Participate in and help evolve the team’s on-call rotation
What You Bring:
Experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and hiring
Strong technical judgment and system design skills, especially for distributed systems and high-reliability production services
Comfort staying close to the work, with the ability to code, review designs, and unblock the team
Experience shipping and operating production services, with a bias toward measurable reliability and pragmatic iteration
Experience leading a team through large, multi-month projects while balancing long-term investment against near-term delivery
Experience with NodeJS and AWS (or closely related stacks), and an ability to ramp quickly where the stack is unfamiliar
Strong cross-functional communication skills and an ability to keep teams aligned under time pressure
Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve
An interest in fintech and payments is preferred
The annual US salary range for this role is $169,000 - $265,000 plus equity. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.
Crack the code
A hidden code is tucked into this application. Find it and enter it below to continue.
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Benefits for US Employees:
Unlimited PTO
12-weeks fully paid parental leave
4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary)
Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year
3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account
Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match
401(k) match
Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD
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