Senior Engineering Manager Backend

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky ineffective and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster smarter and more accurate.

We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures Andreessen Horowitz NYCA and Max Levchin.

We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch CNBC Bloomberg Forbes Business Insider PYMNTS American Banker LendIt and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50. We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner. Last but not least we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.

SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin San Francisco New York City Seattle Los Angeles and Chicago in the U.S. and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

We’re looking for a strong Senior Engineering Manager to lead a backend/platform-focused engineering team responsible for powering SentiLink’s core products.

This team owns the backend systems external APIs and services that power these experiences as well as the technical foundation that ensures the product is scalable reliable and secure.

You will lead a small but growing team of engineers responsible for building API-driven systems evolving our platform architecture and enabling product teams to move quickly with confidence.

This role sits at the intersection of backend platform development technical architecture and people leadership. You’ll partner closely with product data science infrastructure and front-end engineering teams to deliver high-quality systems in a fast-moving environment.

We are looking for a manager who is fundamentally a strong backend engineer and enjoys staying close to technical work contributing to architecture guiding design decisions and unblocking complex systems challenges.

This is a remote US-based position.

Technologies: React Golang Python PostgreSQL (RDS) Docker OpenSearch AWS technologies (Lambda Cognito and other standard services)

• Lead and grow a team of backend/platform engineers building the systems that power Intercept and other critical applications

• Drive execution across planning prioritization and delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability

• Own the technical direction of backend services and APIs ensuring systems are secure performant and maintainable

• Partner with product and front-end teams to translate product requirements into robust backend architectures

• Collaborate with data science to productionize models and integrate decisioning systems into APIs and workflows

• Work closely with infrastructure to improve system reliability observability and developer experience

• Contribute to architectural decisions and guide the long-term evolution of our platform

• Maintain high standards for code quality testing and operational excellence

• Support incident response and ensure systems meet SLA expectations

• Hire mentor and develop engineers while maintaining a high hiring bar

• Foster a culture of ownership accountability and continuous improvement

• Contribute to code and technical problem-solving as needed

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience leading backend or platform teams

• Strong background as a senior or staff-level backend engineer

• Deep experience building API-driven systems using languages like Golang Python or similar

• Strong understanding of distributed systems scalability and system design

• Experience owning and evolving backend architecture in production environments

• Track record of shipping complex customer-facing or platform systems

• Comfortable leading technical discussions and diving into implementation details

• Experience working in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments

• Experience building platforms that support product teams (internal APIs shared services developer tooling) preferred

• Familiarity with data-intensive systems search (OpenSearch) or risk/decisioning systems preferred

• Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments preferred

$200000/year - $240000/year + equity + benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents

• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)

• Flexible paid time off

• Regular company-wide in-person events

• Home office stipend and more!

• Follow Through

• Deep Understanding

• Whatever It Takes

• Do Something Smart

What We Do

SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud identity theft and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers.Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld creators of the risk and fraud systems at Affirm SentiLink was built on a simple premise: to truly stop fraud you have to deeply understand it. That belief shapes everything from the expert human intelligence that feeds our models to the way we work with our partners. We don't call them clients or customers we call them partners because that's genuinely how we think of them.Today SentiLink processes 3M+ identity verifications per day for 500+ financial institutions including 13 of the top 15 U.S. banks and 50+ fintech unicorns. We've raised $85M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz Craft Ventures and NYCA Partners.

Why Work With Us

At SentiLink deep understanding isn't just a value it's a company-wide expectation. For example our Revenue Accounting Manager can walk you through SSN windows. That's not an exception; that's the norm. You'll collaborate closely move fast and do work that genuinely matters.

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