Engineering Manager (Agentic Orchestration and Loan Origination)
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Chicago, IL - USA
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Job Summary
At Caribou we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on whats most important to them. Today less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions and ushering them through the process quickly. On average our drivers save $162/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term.
Caribou is led by leaders from the technology automotive and finance industries. Were proud to be backed by a great team of investors including QED Investors Goldman Sachs Moderne Ventures Accomplice Link Ventures Motley Fool Ventures and others.
Youll be the sole people manager for an established team of 10 solid engineers (6 onshore 4 nearshore) building the LOS/CRM platform behind our refinance process. The team is more than a third of Caribous product engineering and youll be one of six leaders reporting to the CTO.
The team operates in a Ruby on Rails monolith and a Python monorepo for Google ADK strategic mandate for the role is to build agentic orchestration to guide our origination platform automating the repetitive high-volume steps of the refinance process so our team can spend more time on the applications and moments that need a persons judgment.
Round-the-clock agentic orchestration extends what our team can already do by handling routine steps at any hour so customers get faster answers while our team focuses on the applications where a person makes the difference.
Separate from the product work were deploying agentic engineering across all repos using Claude Code. Youll improve your teams practice across practitioner capability and codebase readiness targeting top-quintile productivity and helping define how we measure it.
The team is new to agentic orchestration and bringing them up on it is the work. Within the year we expect agentic orchestration to be handling the full range of routine refi steps with our team focused on exceptions edge cases and judgment calls. Your management and architecture skills sharpen on the way and scope grows as you prove it out.
- Build and hold the team: hiring coaching performance conversations and career growth for ten engineers.
- You wont ship features. You will read designs weigh trade-offs with senior engineers and know how the system actually works.
- Keep the codebase healthy across quarters including making the case to Product when tech debt needs paying down.
- Grow your teams agentic engineering practice moving each engineer up our capability model through mentoring and pairing.
- Lead production health for your teams services: on-call rotation alerts and monitoring incident response and the follow-through after.
- Guide secure SDLC for your team: vulnerability patching threat modeling on new agentic surfaces and origination workflows kept audit-ready under SOC 2 and GLBA.
- Partner with Product design security and data. Product sets the roadmap. You decide how it gets built.
- Collaborate with the other engineering managers to set how we engineer at Caribou.
- Prior experience leading engineers who build and operate production applications and back-end integrations.
- Experience guiding a teams shift to agentic engineering or adding AI into existing products for material business value.
- Customer-focused leaders with a passion for well-crafted software committed to growing their own leadership and engineering skills.
- Experience leading a distributed team across time zones including nearshore or offshore engineers.
- Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML to models and MCP to databases and DNS to runtimes and REST.
- Collaborative people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control.
If you meet most of whats above and not all of it apply anyway.
We value diverse paths into engineering leadership. Consulting backgrounds career changers and candidates without four-year degrees have succeeded here and were actively building a team that reflects the communities we serve. Tell us what youve built.
Caribou is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you need an accommodation let us know.
Candidates are welcome to work remotely from the states of AZ CO DC IL MD TX and VA with a preference for the Chicago IL Denver CO or Phoenix AZ areas. Caribou does provide the option to work in-office or hybrid from our Denver CO or Chandler AZ offices. We may consider remote candidates in CA FL MA NY OR WA and WI subject to additional approval. Eligibility by state is subject to change.
- Recruiter phone interview (45 mins)
- At-home technical assessment (60 mins)
- Hiring Manager interview (60 mins)
- Final interview loop (combined 4 hrs scheduled across 1-4 business days)
Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Competitive compensation: $174000 - $217000
- Equity options
- 401k savings program
- Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents
- Company-paid plans for health dental vision mental health disability and basic life insurance
- Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs FSAs supplemental life and medical insurance and pet insurance
- Up to $1000 per year for eligible professional development expenses
We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values which guide our work and how we work together.
- Give a damn. What were doing matters. We show up determined to deliver results and we love it.
- Velocity. Were intentional about where were going and we race towards it.
- Make the assist. We have diverse strengths. We offer and ask for help so we all win.
The essential functions of this position require consistent attendance availability and active engagement throughout your full scheduled shift.
Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation pregnancy status marital status military or protected veteran status genetics or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.
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About Company
Save on your car loan through Caribou’s fast and easy refinancing — no impact on your credit to check rates. See your potential savings today!
