Engineering Manager

LemFi (Series B) is building the go-to financial app for the Global South.


Moving to a new country shouldn’t mean starting from zero. That's why our team of 400+ spanning 20+ countries is building a financial ecosystem that helps immigrants stay connected to home, build stability, and create wealth regardless of where they are from or where they live.


What began as fast, affordable remittances is now evolving into a complete platform for multi-currency accounts, payments, credit, and long-term financial growth.


With millions of users across the globe, we process over $1B in monthly transactions to 30+ countries, proving that borders shouldn't limit financial opportunity.


THE ROLE

As an Engineering Manager in the Engagement & Platform Squad, you will lead the team behind two critical drivers of our growth: building cross-product engagement capabilities — such as in-app communication, referrals, loyalty programs, and customer support — and shaping the architecture of our BackOffice platform that powers internal operations. You will set technical direction, elevate engineering standards, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable systems that serve customers around the world.

This is a high-impact leadership role with meaningful ownership. You will support and grow a team of engineers while partnering closely with Product, Data, and Growth to translate strategy into measurable outcomes and sustained business impact.


HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE

- Drive Technical Strategy: Guide architectural decisions, influence system design, and ensure scalable, reliable solutions.

- Raise Engineering Standards: Uphold high quality across implementation, testing, observability, and long-term maintainability.

- Mentor & Grow Talent: Support engineers and technical leads through structured coaching, feedback, and development plans.

- Align With Business Goals: Partner cross-functionally to prioritise work, clarify requirements, and deliver impactful outcomes.

- Enable Team Effectiveness: Remove blockers, bring clarity to ambiguity, and support strong decision-making across squads.

- Evolve Engineering Practices: Improve tooling, workflows, and processes to support long-term quality and velocity.

- Lead With Care: Conduct regular 1:1s, manage performance, and support engineers’ growth and career progression.


WHO YOU ARE

- Impact-Oriented: You prioritise meaningful outcomes that improve product reliability and customer experience.

- Technically Strong: You bring deep experience in scalable distributed systems using Go Lang, Java or similar.

- Influential Leader: You guide technical direction across teams through clarity, mentorship, and collaboration.

- Strategic Partner: You work effectively with Product, Data, and business leaders to align priorities.

- Growth-Focused: You are curious, adaptive, and excited about the potential of AI-enhanced engineering.


WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- Experience building and scaling backend systems in with