Engineering Manager

Knot’s mission is to empower consumers and businesses alike with connected merchant and banking experiences. Knot is like “Plaid for merchant connectivity.” We are building the platform connecting merchants to the many applications that consumers and businesses interact with everyday. Our flagship CardSwitcher product allows consumers to instantly update & manage their cards on file with online merchant accounts (e.g. Netflix or PayPal), while newer products like TransactionLink support the retrieval of item-level transaction data. We are building many new products on top of our novel merchant connectivity platform and we hope you choose to come build them with us!

Founded in 2021, Knot was founded by two brothers and Thiel Fellows - Rory and Kieran O’Reilly - and today powers connected online payment experiences for hundreds of thousands of consumers. Companies like American Express, PayPal, Current, BILT, Step, and more choose to embed Knot’s SDK in their apps to power best-in-class experiences for their customers.

Knot is proudly backed by a select group of investors, including Nava Ventures, 8VC, American Express, Plaid, and co-founders & CEOs of prominent companies like Twitter, Warby Parker, Allbirds, Casper, Intercom, Deel, Italic, DraftKings, and many more.

We’re a world-class team hailing from all over the globe with the vast majority of the company in engineering roles. We are looking to further solidify our presence in NYC to be at the heart of the financial services ecosystem.

Our team is relentlessly focused on building for our customers and every member of the financial services ecosystem. We take our work seriously and have fun while doing it. Both are equally important.

Note: this role includes ~60% writing & reviewing code and ~40% team management & working cross-functionally.

• Lead & manage a team to build, experiment with, and debug user-facing features across all of Knot’s products, as well as lead a suite of features for customers to integrate with Knot.

• Work closely with the team’s product lead to deliver on an ever-evolving product roadmap and develop processes that make the team successful.

• Own all processes and outcomes for the engineering team including quality/testing, dev ops, deployments, etc.

• Be accountable for making and delivering on team commitments, as well as pivoting when necessary in order to keep the team focused on the most impactful work.

• Foster a culture of deep care for industry-leading user experience.

• 4+ years in product engineering roles

• 1+ years of experience managing other engineers

• Track record of shipping high-quality code across the stack with proficiency in React/TypeScript, and CloudSQL (or similar relational database).

• Excited to work with the product team on high level team direction, as well as dive into the details of individual problems on a day-to-day basis.

• Ability to tailor your management style to suit your team’s needs, identifying where some people might succeed with a more hands-off approach than others.

• Expert communication and ability to collaborate seamlessly with product teams.

• Experience with fintech or consumer apps is a plus.

• React frontend with Styled Components

• Material-UI and CSS modules for styling

• React-query/Axios for API calls

• Typscript/Node, Python, Go, and Socket.io in the backend

• CloudSQL & Redis

• Hosted on Google Cloud Run and k8s

• Github, Linear, Slack, Notion

• Interesting and challenging work

• Competitive base salary + generous early employee equity + benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents (U.S.)

• Unlimited PTO

• Parental leave

• Beautiful NYC office in the heart of Flatiron