Manager, Engineering Backend
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Current Employees of LendingClub: Please apply via your internal Workday Account
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank National Association Member FDIC. We are the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S. having helped our nearly 5 million members secure over $90 billion in loans to refinance high-cost debt and achieve their financial goals. Members today have mobile-first access to a growing range of products and services designed to work seamlessly together to deliver value in new ways. Everyone deserves a better financial future and our team is committed to making that a reality. Join the Club!
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager on the Consumer Engineering Team at LendingClub you will lead a team of software engineers in designing building and enhancing the systems that power personal loan originations underwriting borrower experiences and operational workflows. You will guide the development of resilient scalable backend services while fostering a culture of technical excellence ownership and continuous improvement.Your experience delivering high availability distributed systems driving backend technical strategy mentoring engineers and collaborating cross functionally will enable you to meaningfully advance LendingClubs mission to transform consumer lending through innovation and responsible technology.
What Youll Do
- Lead mentor and develop a highperforming engineering team focused on backend systems supporting the originations journey
- Drive the technical vision architectural direction and engineering roadmap for key platforms and services
- Partner closely with Product Design Data and Operations to translate business needs into scalable highimpact technical solutions
- Guide the team in delivering features endtoend across Java Spring Boot REST APIs distributed systems and AWS services
- Ensure the team builds highavailability faulttolerant services with a strong emphasis on observability performance and security
- Facilitate technical design discussions code reviews and architectural evaluations
- Balance delivery of new capabilities with longterm platform reliability refactoring and technical debt management
- Cultivate a positive engineering culture grounded in collaboration accountability continuous learning and craftsmanship
- Own team executionsetting priorities aligning on milestones removing blockers and ensuring consistent delivery
- Promote operational excellence
- Master team metrics (services and team performance)
About You
- 8 years of software engineering experience with 2 years in a peopleleadership or teamlead role; bachelors in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
- Strong background in backend engineering distributed systems and serviceoriented architecture.
- Expertise with Java Spring Boot REST APIs and cloud-native development (AWS preferred).
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices: CI/CD testing strategies code quality observability and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity set direction and drive alignment across stakeholders.
- Ability to translate business objectives into clear engineering plans and technical designs.
- Strong communication and storytelling skillsyou make complex technical concepts accessible.
- Passion for mentorship coaching and career development of engineers.
- Commitment to building inclusive hightrust highimpact engineering teams.
Bonus Points
- Experience in regulated industries or with compliance-heavy platforms.
- Financial services or lending industry experience.
- Experience with large-scale service migrations.
- Familiarity with frontend or fullstack environments (even if backendheavy).
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to improve developer workflows or service capabilities.
- Curiosity ownership mindset and enthusiasm for transforming the banking and lending industry.
Work Location
San Francisco
The above locations are eligible offices for this locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this roles team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model and our teams are in-office Tuesdays Wednesdays and -person attendance is essential for this roles success and remote placement will not be offers relocation based on actual job level.
Time Zone Requirements
Primarily PT
While the position will primarily work local hours LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.
Travel Requirements
As needed travel to LendingClub offices and/or other locations as needed.
Compensation
The target base salary range for this position is 00. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge experience education skills and location. Base salary is just one part of LendingClubs Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance employee performance and eligible earnings).
Were creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness simplicity and heart and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans for employees and their families 401(k) match health and wellness programs flexible time off policies for salaried employees up to 16 weeks paid parental leave and more.
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LendingClub is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity equity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions) gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status political views or activity or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We believe that a variety of perspectives will make our teams and business stronger as we work together to transform the traditional banking system.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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