As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.
We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
POSITION SUMMARY
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager to join our Growth Engineering team, the group responsible for the systems and experiences that help millions of people discover, onboard, and engage with EarnIn. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role where you’ll blend deep technical expertise with product intuition — designing scalable systems that power experimentation, personalization, and member engagement across our product ecosystem.
As a Staff Engineer / Tech Lead Manager on Growth, you’ll operate across the stack, with a strong foundation in backend systems and a readiness to influence web and mobile experiences as needed. You’ll work closely with product, marketing, data, and analytics teams to identify growth opportunities, architect solutions, and execute with velocity. You’ll also play a key role in elevating engineering quality and strategy across the broader organization. We’re looking for someone with prior leadership experience who’s excited to lead a small team of 2-3 engineers while remaining intensely hands-on, spending the majority of their time building, designing, and problem-solving.
This is a hybrid position in Mountain View (Headquarters) and will require in-office work 2 days a week. The base salary range for this full-time position is $252,000-$308,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. EarnIn provides excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our Mountain View HQ.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own the technical vision for Growth systems spanning onboarding, activation, retention, and re-engagement.
Design and build scalable, reliable backend services and data pipelines that enable fast iteration, experimentation, and personalized user experiences.
Collaborate with data, product, and marketing partners to integrate growth levers into the product - connecting systems, insights, and member journeys.
Drive experimentation infrastructure and tooling, ensuring engineers can launch, measure, and iterate on experiments with minimal friction.
Mentor and develop engineers through regular feedback, design reviews, and career growth conversations. Recruit and onboard top engineering talent, shaping a team that’s collaborative, curious, and obsessed with impact
Partner with platform and mobile teams to deliver cohesive, cross-platform growth experiences that scale.
Champion engineering quality, observability, and performance, ensuring the Growth stack evolves with stability and velocity.
Influence product direction through a strong technical and analytical lens — helping balance speed, reliability, and impact.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership and delivering high-impact systems at scale.
Deep backend expertise, with proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Kotlin, Java, Go, C#).
Experience architecting distributed systems and APIs using REST/gRPC, event-driven workflows, and asynchronous processing.
Strong understanding of experimentation and data systems, from instrumentation to metrics pipelines.
Fluency in system design trade-offs (consistency, scalability, reliability, and developer velocity).
Familiarity with relational and document databases, and comfort working with both operational and analytical data flows.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across product, analytics, and marketing functions.
Ability to mentor and influence engineers across teams, setting technical standards and driving best practices.
Curiosity and adaptability to learn new domains — from web to mobile to AI-driven personalization.
Strong Preference:
Experience with or interest in leveraging AI/LLMs to accelerate development and decision-making.
Strong preference for a leader who can guide a small team (2 - 3 engineers) while remaining highly hands-on in design and development.
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At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant.
EarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team.
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What We Do
Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people. Every year, while Americans wait for their paychecks, more than $1 trillion of their hard-earned money is held up in the pay cycle. As a result, we accumulate over $50 billion in late and overdraft fees and turn to high-interest loans. We seek to eliminate those fees and put money back into workers’ hands.
Our financial system doesn’t work for people. But Earnin does. Earnin is an app that lets people get paid as soon as they leave work, with no fees, interest, or hidden costs. App users can receive their money in their bank account instantly at little or no cost — as we operate on a pay what you choose model. All they need is a bank account and a job that provides direct deposit or uses electronic timesheets.
At Earnin, we’re building the way we think a financial system should work for everyone, not just the people who can afford it. We help people take control of their money and get to a better financial place.
Our goal is not only to provide great products at little or no cost to the people who need them but also to inspire kindness across the financial world and eventually across all industries.
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