Be a part of building the future of FinTech

Synctera is an exciting startup helping FinTech companies launch their innovative ideas, banks earn new revenue, and employees find rewarding careers

We're assembling a team of passionate engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and financial service experts. If you're like us and believe in the future of FinTech, reach out.

Diversity and inclusion

We have emphasized diversity and inclusion since our formation. We aim to create real, inclusive behaviors at the heart of our operations, rather than just "checking boxes" or "hitting numbers".

Valuing what you do and who you are

We work towards nurturing the bright minds that move our company forward while maintaining a rich workplace environment of innovation, collaboration, and curiosity.

What's it like working at Synctera?

Samson

Sr. Bank & Customer Success Manager

"I work with incredibly smart and driven team members who excel at finding solutions while fostering collaboration. I'm proud to be part of a company that is committed to continuously improving our products and innovating to deliver the best experience for our customers."

Sr. Manager, Payment Operations

Don’t just take our word for it

The perks of working at Synctera

- Generous paid parental leave
- Fertility benefits
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Stock options granted to all full time employees
- Spot bonus opportunities
- Company social outings
- Access to regional WeWork space for in-person collaboration

Unlocking our potential through shared values

Connect

Listen actively; reach out and offer support; share laughs and spirited energy; speak with candor and compassion.

Share

Create a safe space; bring your authentic self; be transparent; share ideas and raise concerns.

Question

Challenge norms and take risks; invite perspectives and seek to understand; fail forward, fast and learn; embrace change.

Commit

Advocate for customers; take initiative; prioritize for impact; seek clarity and keep moving.

Current openings at Synctera

Location Type

Remote

We use a geo-tier compensation model to ensure fair, market-competitive, and consistent pay across our remote-first team. Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and work location, with each geographic area assigned to a tier that reflects local market data and the cost of labor.

How We Define Our Tiers:

US Tier 1: Premium markets, e.g., the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.

US Tier 2: All other United States locations.

Canada: All provinces and territories.

The base salary ranges displayed for this posting reflect the expected compensation for this role across our geographic tiers, and final compensation will align with the tier associated with your confirmed work location and be discussed transparently during the interview process.

What We're Doing

At Synctera, we’re powering the future of FinTech. We help companies create new revenue streams and enhance their value proposition with FinTech apps and embedded banking products. With APIs, compliance support, and bank partners in one end-to-end Banking as a Service platform, Synctera is the fastest and easiest way to build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit cards, charge cards, lending, and more. We help banks increase deposits and non-interest income by expanding their footprint through FinTech and embedded finance partnerships. The Synctera Platform enables banks to manage their program through a fully compliant, scalable solution.

We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team. If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry,



grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on!

How We Build

At Synctera, engineers do more than maintain existing systems. They help design and build new platform capabilities that directly shape how our products work and how the company scales.

Our teams are small, which means senior engineers have real ownership: defining approaches, making technical tradeoffs, shipping production code, and improving systems over time. You can move quickly from idea to production, and your decisions have visible impact on both the product and the platform.

This role is a fit for someone who wants to build in a real-world, high-stakes environment: backend systems that need to be reliable, secure, scalable, and auditable because they support financial compliance and banking operations.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead a small, experienced team doing high-ownership work in a regulated environment. This is not a role for someone who wants to sit above the work. It’s for someone who can help engineers make good decisions, keep teams focused through ambiguity, and stay close enough to the technical work to contribute when it makes sense.

This role supports teams building both customer-facing compliance products and the core platform capabilities that power them. The work spans data-intensive systems for automated compliance monitoring and control testing, as well as foundational platform services such as tenant management, event and webhook infrastructure, API ingress and egress, and other shared capabilities used across engineering.

The right person for this role can turn ambiguous problems into a clear plan, make practical tradeoffs, and keep teams focused on the work that matters most. We are not looking for someone who only manages from a distance or relies on generic leadership language. We are looking for someone who has actually led backend or platform teams, improved how they operate, and worked in systems where correctness, reliability, and operational judgment matter.

What We Build With

Our backend services are primarily written in Go. Our frontend is React with TypeScript. We run on Google Cloud Platform and commonly work with Postgres, Redis, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Terraform, and OpenAPI-based service contracts.

What You’ll Do

Lead and develop engineers across multiple backend and platform teams, including coaching, performance feedback, hiring, and day-to-day prioritization

Turn ambiguous work into a clear execution plan and keep that plan aligned with product, engineering, and business stakeholders

Partner closely with engineers on architecture and technical tradeoffs across customer-facing products and the shared platform services that support them

Stay close enough to the technical work to review approaches, unblock decisions, and contribute code when it makes sense

Support teams building reliable backend and platform systems, including event-driven services, operational workflows, internal tooling, shared infrastructure, and data-intensive applications

Improve how the team works by tightening scope, raising execution quality, and ensuring engineers have the context they need to move quickly

Work cross-functionally with product, compliance,



and other engineering teams to surface risks early and keep delivery grounded in business needs

Help the team balance roadmap commitments with platform maintenance, operational responsibilities, and long-term investments in reliability, scalability, and engineering quality

What You’ll Bring

8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer

3+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including coaching, performance feedback, and hiring involvement

Experience leading backend or platform teams working on systems with real operational complexity

Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems

Enough technical depth to contribute to architecture discussions, challenge assumptions, and jump into the code when useful

Experience navigating ambiguous problems and turning them into clear plans, priorities, and tradeoffs

Valuable judgment around scope, sequencing, and risk, especially when work spans multiple stakeholders or competing demands

A track record of being accountable for team output, not just individual contribution

Experience in fintech, banking, infrastructure, developer tooling, or other regulated systems is strongly preferred

Comfort working in environments where reliability, compliance, auditability, and operational risk matter

100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents

Employer contribution to HSA for US employees

Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents

401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees

Mental health resources available for all employees

Unlimited paid time off

Generous paid new parent leave program

Home office setup stipend

Stock options program for all employees

Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey

Working alongside a skilled and passionate team

Diversity & Inclusion

Synctera is committed to having a workforce that is reflective of the diversity within the United States and Canada. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented communities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, and all those who can provide different perspectives and contribute to the diversification of Synctera.

Additional Information

Synctera may use artificial intelligence or AI-assisted tools to help review, screen, and assess applications based on job-related qualifications, skills, and experience, and to support other parts of the recruiting process. These tools may assist our team, but final hiring decisions are made by Synctera employees.

Please note that although all positions at Synctera are remote, candidates must be located and authorized to work in the US or Canada as a precondition of employment. Synctera does not sponsor applicants for work visas.

To all recruiters and recruitment agencies: Synctera does not accept unsolicited resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or to Synctera employees without an active vendor agreement in place. Synctera is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

With the current increase in job recruitment phishing scams globally, we wanted to remind you that all official communications from Synctera will only come from a @synctera.com email address. If you’ve received a communication regarding Synctera that you have a question or concern about, please contact

Compensation Range: $155K - $240K

Great banking products get built and scaled on Synctera’s end-to-end platform

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📌 Engineering Manager (Canada)
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