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Engineering Manager, Reconciliation

Upside · DC · Remote

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About Upside

Earn every time you shop gas, grocery, or food with Upside's free top-rated app. Get cash back on everyday necessities, making your purchases more rewarding. Download and start earning today! Backed by Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

At Upside, engineering leaders help teams make the right calls quickly; gathering the right input, taking smart risks, and shipping high-quality software that's delightful to use.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience, mobile or distributed API domains are a strong plus, but we care most about your leadership track record
  • A track record of scaling teams and leveling up systems, even when the path forward is unclear
  • Comfort going deep on technical challenges across mobile and API infrastructure (AWS a plus) and back-end data tools (Snowflake, Hex, and similar)
  • Hands-on familiarity with mobile and API development patterns: serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, Clean Architecture is a plus, we're happy to help you build on what you already know
  • A bias toward clarity over consensus, especially when things are moving fast
  • Genuine curiosity about generative AI as a tool for improving how your team builds, ships, and improves over time
More about this role

We created Upside to transform brick-and-mortar commerce. Our technology uses the sophistication of online retail—profit measurement, attribution, and incrementality—to provide users with more value on their everyday purchases and brick-and-mortar businesses with new, profitable customers. We’ve helped millions of users earn 2 to 3 times more cashback than any other product, and hundreds of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses earn measurable profit. Billions of dollars in commerce run through the Upside platform every year, and that value goes directly back to our retailer partners, the consumers they serve, and important sustainability initiatives.

At Upside, engineering leaders help teams make the right calls quickly; gathering the right input, taking smart risks, and shipping high-quality software that's delightful to use.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Reconciliation team: a full-stack group responsible for Upside's transaction-matching pipeline, spanning our Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) front-end and our Python + Java back-end. This team owns the post-claim experience; making sure Upside can accurately verify a transaction, award cash back when it's...

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