Engineering Manager, Product Engineering (US)

Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

At Butter Payments, we're on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to failed payments. Butter leverages machine learning, deep financial data partnerships, and behavioral insights to ensure the right payments go through at the right timewithout friction. We're backed by world-class investors like Atomic & Norwest Venture Partners, and we're growing fast.

Role Summary

As Engineering Manager you will lead and grow a small but high-leverage product team responsible for multiple key product areas (e.g., payment retry engine, ML feature pipeline, client SDK & integrations). You'll blend technical leadership, team development, and product deliveryensuring your team pushes quality software, executes with clarity, learns quickly, and works cross-functionally with product, data science, and customer-facing teams. You will :

• Scale the engineering team and processes to support a growing pipeline of customers, while maintaining high standards of delivery and team cohesion.
• Set the engineering roadmap for your product area in coordination with Product and Engineering leadership.
• Deliver high-impact features and operational improvements (performance, scalability, reliability) that directly drive Butter's mission (recovering failed payments, reducing client churn). Ability to be hands-on in development is required.
• Coach, mentor and build a strong engineering team : hire, develop engineers, establish engineering practices (code review, CI / CD, metrics).
• Drive technical excellence : system design, scalable architecture, ML pipeline integration, monitoring / observability.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Product, Customer Success and Sales to align engineering work with business impact and client outcomes.
• Measure and report on team performance, product delivery outcomes, and key engineering metrics (velocity, defect rate, uptime, latency).
• Foster a culture aligned with Butter's values : "burn the boat" (take bold bets), "survive and advance" (resilient and curious), and "diamond hands" (master the craft).
• Experience designing, building, and managing API platforms and client SDKs to accelerate integration with diverse client environments is a huge plus

Key Responsibilities

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What You'll Gain

$200,000 - $250,000 a year + equity

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you're excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

Butter Payments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Butter considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.