Engineering Manager, Identity

Middesk is the business identity platform. Our APIs allow B2B companies to access the information, insights, and documentation they need to onboard and transact with their customers. Our products help product, risk, and finance teams make informed regulatory compliance and commercial credit decisions, confirm that suppliers meet federal and state licensing requirements, and register their customers with the necessary government agencies.

Our verification product allows platforms like Shopify, Affirm, and Wells Fargo to determine the legitimacy of any business in the United States and automate Know Your Business (KYB) requirements. In addition, our products can be used to identify a business's industry, sanctions risks, bankruptcies, financing liens, and active or pending litigations. Enterprises such as ServiceChannel and Tesla use our products to ensure that all of their suppliers are legitimate businesses registered with the necessary government agencies.

Based in San Francisco and NYC, Middesk is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Y Combinator.

The role: Engineering Manager, Identity

Identity is the core of our business. It is the product that many financial companies use to verify new business customers so they can stay compliant and offset risk. And it's the product that helps new business customers get easier access to financial services and products. We're looking for an Engineering Manager in (or willing to move to) the SF Bay Area to lead one of our Identity teams.

What you'll do

1. Drive the technical roadmap for the team in close collaboration with the PM and the product roadmap.

2. Manage and improve systems to maintain high service availability to our customers.

3. Enable your team first, ship your own projects second.

4. Be glue for execution (e.g. organizing cycle planning, standups, retros) in a manner that engages effectively with the rest of the company.

5. Help the engineers on your team (around 5) grow in their careers.

6. Maintain healthy team culture with a high level of trust and psychological safety.

7. Collaborate with Recruiting to build out your team over the next few years.

8. Coordinate the resolution of Production incidents.

What you've accomplished

• You've worked for a high-growth, venture-backed startup before and are looking for a similar role. Or, you've founded a company and are looking to get back into it.

• You've managed engineers for five or more years, and you're committed to engineering management as a career path.

• You've developed gelled teams, and are passionate about inclusivity.

• Even though you've been a manager, you've authored a few commits to help out your team, often taking on more unglamorous coding tasks.

• You're conversant in Ruby, Rails, and React, or at least plan to be once you get here.

Why you'll love it here

• Customer First: We stay energized by solving real customer problems and make each interaction meaningful and embrace the challenging path to help our customers succeed.

• Be an owner: We identify and tackle problems, take pride in our work, and measure impact. When we find an opportunity to improve the status quo, take it on!

• Act with urgency and purpose: We move quickly and simplify things as we go. We solve the problems that we have today in ways that allow us to move even faster in the future.

• Drive results together: We choose teamwork. We share our opinions, ask questions, understand where others are coming from, and move forward as a unified front.

• Embrace the journey: We dream big and are open to taking risks. Innovation happens through optimism, positivity, rigorous thinking, and hard work.

Middesk is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. As an equal opportunity employer; we're committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.