Company Description
Candidly was founded in 2016 to flip the script on what it means to plan, borrow, repay, and save for college. Today, we’re the category leader with the market’s most comprehensive AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. We partner with hundreds of top employers, financial institutions, and retirement record keepers, positioning Candidly to serve more than 35 million Americans.
We’re already achieving incredible results — to date, we’ve helped our users get on track to eliminate more than $1.8B in student debt and pay off their loans 175,000 years quicker — and we’re seeking movers, shakers, innovators, and problem solvers to help take our mission even further.
Candidly is a high-growth, Series B startup, funded by leading investors including Altos Ventures, Aflac, Salesforce Ventures, UBS, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Impact Engine, Rethink Impact, Unum, and Cercano Management. Our fully remote, international team of 70 (and counting) includes alumni from Google, UBS, Twitter, Plaid, Prudential, LendingTree, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and more.
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager, you will work closely with the Director of Engineering to play a people manager role, coordinate with teams, and ensure the successful delivery of company initiatives. You will be responsible for managing a team of engineers, focusing on team morale, talent retention, and productivity. You will lead one-on-one meetings with Engineers to understand individual career goals, provide feedback, and support each team member’s professional development. You’ll also oversee project planning, status updates, and compliance preparations to ensure all engineering projects meet standards for regulations and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Utilize talent management best practices to support engineers in their growth, recognize achievements, and help retain top talent within the team.
- Use Continuous Performance Management Software for feedback, performance tracking, and goal setting. Ensure that the platform is actively used.
- Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members to discuss personal development, career aspirations, project concerns, and feedback.
- Regularly review system logs via MySQL to ensure infrastructure reliability, identify issues proactively, and maintain high-performance standards across projects.
- Maintain project momentum by scheduling status check-ins, troubleshooting obstacles, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to achieve timely deliverables.
- Oversee preparation and implementation of regulatory and compliance requirements within engineering processes.
- Manage hiring processes and contractor tasks, including onboarding and resource allocation with the Director of Engineering.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, with at least 1 year in a management role.
- Proven track record in talent management, with a strong focus on retention, engagement, and performance development.
- A strong preference for analytical decision-making with openness to experimentation and innovation. Ability to critically assess and engage in technical debates.
- Experience collaborating with Product teams, understanding user experience (UX) and design considerations, and how to organically integrate these as the company evolves.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote, global team.
- Empathy and active listening skills to understand and address team members' needs and concerns.
- Experience in Fintech startup and familiarity with technologies such as React, PHP, and Python.
- Talent for aligning individual ambitions with broader company and team objectives.
- Flexibility to accommodate different time zones and availability needs.
- Understanding of GDPR, CCPA, and SOC compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with 15Five or similar feedback and talent management platforms.
Background and EEOC
Candidly offers for employment are conditioned upon satisfactory completion of our employment screening process (including, but not limited to, a review of past employment and education records, background investigation, and/or credit check & fingerprints).
Candidly strives to foster an environment where every employee can succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Top Skills
What We Do
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform that addresses the full lifecycle of education expenses and empowers people to make simultaneous progress on paying down student debt and building wealth. Candidly partners with leading employers, financial services companies serving the workplace like 401(k) and 403(b) recordkeepers, financial institutions, retirement plan advisors and more, to embed its experience anywhere a user works, banks, or experiences financial services. The platform supports flexible integration options including outlink, SSO, widget integration, and APIs that meet partners where they really are in resourcing, technical debt, and product resourcing/roadmap capacity. Candidly supports multiple branding options including white labeling and co-branding. Candidly understands that education is one of the largest investments most people will make in a lifetime — whether for themselves or their children. Candidly brings compassion, authenticity, and confidence to Americans as they navigate their higher education pursuits — past, present and future. Candidly is backed by leading venture capital and strategic investors including Aflac, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Impact Engine, Rethink Impact, Salesforce Ventures, UBS, Unum, and Vulcan Capital. For more information, visit www.getcandidly.com
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