Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.
At Sydecar, we're not just a platform; we're a trusted partner in venture capital. We're dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience, empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.
Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks, from automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.
Join us at Sydecar, as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.
Locations: San Francisco or New York City (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office)
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our core product engineering teams. This role combines deeply involved technical leadership with people management, requiring someone who can build high-performing teams while maintaining our focus on delivering exceptional user experiences. You’ll drive business-critical initiatives, grow a high-performing engineering team, and work cross-functionally to deliver outcomes that move the company forward.
You’ll play a key role in turning strategic goals into shipped product—combining technical leadership, strong execution, and product thinking to ensure we’re building the right things in the right way. This role is ideal for someone who leads with clarity, values ownership, and is energized by building alongside a kind, collaborative team.
This is not a pure people-management role, but a high-leverage leadership position that demands technical depth and strong product intuition.
What You’ll DriveProduct Outcomes and Technical Strategy
Own business-critical initiatives by partnering with Product and Design to define and deliver work that creates real user and business value
Translate company strategy into clear, actionable technical plans with measurable outcomes
Prioritize the highest-impact work and create focus within the team even when goals are evolving
Lead effectively in ambiguity by structuring complex problem spaces and creating alignment around what matters most
Technical Execution and Decision-Making
Guide architectural thinking and support strong technical decisions without becoming a bottleneck
Help the team balance delivery speed with technical sustainability
Set a high bar for quality by encouraging craftsmanship, operational rigor, and scalable thinking
Team Leadership and Growth
Build a high-trust, high-performing engineering team focused on ownership, urgency, and product impact
Invest in the development of engineers and future leaders by creating growth opportunities that align with team goals
Act as a force for clarity and alignment across engineering, product, and cross-functional partners
Experience
3 to 5 years of engineering management experience in fast-moving, product-led environments
8 or more years of hands-on software engineering experience, with the ability to support technical design and strategy
A track record of leading teams that have shipped meaningful, high-impact product work
Startup or high-growth experience—you've been part of a venture-backed startup or fast-scaling company and understand the unique dynamics of building in high-growth environments.
Qualities That Matter
Product fluency. You understand how software is built end-to-end and how technical work connects to user outcomes and business goals. You are deeply involved in product strategy, flexibly overlapping responsibilities with your Product Manager partners.
Systems thinking. You consider how engineering decisions influence architecture, execution, team health, and customer experience.
Clarity creator. You help teams move forward in uncertainty by breaking down complexity and communicating clearly.
Builder’s mindset. You enjoy solving open-ended problems and thrive in dynamic, evolving environments.
Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities, behaviors and interactions.
Be Committed
As a team, we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity.
Be Excellent
We measure our success not just by what we achieve, but by how we achieve it—through integrity, creativity, elegance, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellence is not just doing things well—it's looking for ways to do them better.
Be Humble
Humility is our key to personal and professional growth. We appreciate that great ideas can come from anywhere, regardless of seniority, pedigree, or experience. We care more about collective outcomes than who gets credit or who does what. We try to not let our ego cloud our judgment.
Win Together
Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, loving what we do. Winning requires that we give extra—sometimes winning calls for late nights or extra effort, and we show up for clients and each other with urgency and heart. While excellence is a journey, winning is a destination.
Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.
Skills Required
- 3 to 5 years of engineering management experience in fast-moving, product-led environments
- 8 or more years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Ability to support technical design and strategy
- Track record of leading teams that shipped meaningful, high-impact product work
- Experience at a venture-backed startup or fast-scaling company
- Product fluency, including understanding software development end-to-end and connecting technical work to user and business outcomes
- Systems thinking across architecture, execution, team health, and customer experience
- Ability to create clarity and alignment in uncertain environments
- Builder's mindset and ability to solve open-ended problems in dynamic environments
Sydecar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sydecar and has not been reviewed or approved by Sydecar.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is described as competitive for many roles, with total compensation data points clustering in the mid-to-high six figures for senior technical and product positions. Healthcare is characterized as generously covered across medical, dental, and vision offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes an employer 401(k) match that is positioned as meaningful for a startup environment. The presence of a match post–Series A is highlighted as a notable differentiator versus many peers.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support includes explicit stipends such as annual wellness and professional development budgets, plus reimbursement for personal data plans and home-office/workspace support. Time-off and family benefits are also broadly positioned through PTO/sick leave and parental leave availability.
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What We Do
Sydecar is a frictionless deal execution platform for venture investors. Our platform handles back-office operations for venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships. The opportunity in venture capital is greater than ever. But for aspiring investors, getting started can be intimidating, expensive, and time-consuming. We’re here to help! Sydecar makes private investing dead simple so you can focus on what matters most: building relationships and sourcing investment opportunities. We're hiring! Join us to empower the next generation of investing leaders. https://www.sydecar.io/careers
Why Work With Us
Sydecar is a tight-knit, early-stage team on a mission to make private markets more accessible by standardizing how investment vehicles are created. Our team is values-driven and emphasizes dependability, ownership, trust, and growth. You're joining early, so you'll have a big part in shaping how we accomplish this goal.
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