Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager – Spend

at Imprint

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager – Spend
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading Spend team at Imprint for innovative co-branded payment solutions. Responsible for defining strategy, driving team performance, and shaping future product ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the technical and organizational strategy for Spend Engineering, balancing latency, feature velocity, and risk controls.
• Collaborate across cross-functional partners (Product, Risk, Fraud, Data, Compliance) to define goals, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Own delivery and operations of mission‑critical authorization and transaction processing services, with aggressive SLOs, comprehensive runbooks, and high‑quality on‑call practices.
• Evolve monitoring and alerting around business outcomes like approval rates, decline reasons, latency distribution, and network compliance metrics.
• Lead architecture to support real‑time spending controls, merchant enrichment, multi‑product authorization logic, and network integrations as we scale.
• Lead and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers across a spectrum of seniority.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing fullstack teams operating 24x7 services.
• Strong systems architecture skills across distributed systems, low‑latency design, idempotency, and exactly‑once processing semantics.
• Proven track record improving reliability, latency, and on‑call effectiveness in high‑stakes, real‑time domains.
• Clear, direct communication; ability to align cross‑functional stakeholders and lead through ambiguity.
• Nice to haves: Experience building and operating card authorization, transaction processing, or payment switching systems at scale, with strong knowledge of ISO 8583, card network rules, and authorization flows, as well as hands-on exposure to Visa/Mastercard network integrations, fraud and risk decisioning systems, spend controls and limits engines, regulated environments, or large-scale platform refactors.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
• Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity