Senior Engineering Manager

About LearnLux

LearnLux is the leading provider of workplace financial wellbeing that blends fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner™️ professionals. LearnLux's award-winning program equips employees with a financial plan to guide them through decision points like budgeting, paying down debt, electing benefits, understanding equity compensation, starting a family, buying a home, saving for retirement, and more. Advanced reporting keeps our partners in the know, and drives results like reduction in financial stress, increased productivity, reduced employee turnover, greater use of pretax products, on-time retirement, and healthcare savings. LearnLux members feel great about their money, allowing their work and wellbeing to thrive. 

We’re a remote-first company, backed by prominent operators such as Ashton Kutcher’s fund Sound Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

The Role

At LearnLux, you’ll build and lead the systems that power a platform changing lives around the world. We empower people to take control of their financial future and your team will make sure our infrastructure, AI platform, and developer experience scale to meet that mission.

As Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Engineering, you’ll lead a high-performing and growing team accountable for DevOps, Data, Security, and our AI Platform foundations that support every LearnLux product and engineer. You’ll guide a team of engineers to build secure, reliable systems that enable rapid iteration, world-class uptime, and confident deployment. You’ll work closely with the Head of Engineering and cross-functional peers to shape how LearnLux scales globally—across regions, clients, and technologies.

This is a hands-on leadership role for a technical manager who thrives on solving complex systems challenges, mentoring engineers, and building frameworks that empower others to move fast safely. You’ll balance strategy and execution, leading initiatives that improve developer velocity, enhance security posture, evolve our observability and CI/CD pipelines, and lay the groundwork for AI-driven innovation across the product.

This role is 100% remote within the U.S. and reports to the Head of Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Internal Engineering team, overseeing DevOps, AI Platform, Data, and Security initiatives that power LearnLux’s global product ecosystem.
• Drive technical strategy for scalability, availability, observability, and security across environments and services.
• Guide the evolution of LearnLux’s cloud infrastructure (GCP & AWS) for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Own the data and platform architecture supporting analytics, AI training, and operational insights, ensuring secure, compliant, and reliable delivery.
• Maintain secure-by-default infrastructure practices and partner with compliance and product security to meet SOC 2 and other regulatory standards.
• Mentor engineers, lead incident response and postmortem processes, and build a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and implement emerging tools and developer platforms that improve reliability, observability, and developer experience.
• Champion modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity, reduce manual toil, and accelerate innovation.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ in management or technical leadership.
• Proven experience leading DevOps, Data, Infrastructure, or Platform teams in SaaS environments.
• Deep cloud architecture expertise (GCP and/or AWS).
• Strong background in CI/CD, IaC (Pulumi or similar), and containerized deployments (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes).
• Experience integrating AI/ML and LLM-based tools into production systems.
• Solid grasp of security best practices—identity, access, network, and incident response.
• Track record of building and scaling internal developer platforms that balance speed, quality, and compliance.
• Skilled communicator who translates technical concepts into business impact.
• Pragmatic systems thinker focused on sustainable, high-impact solutions.
• Experience scaling GenAI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Devin, etc.) to boost developer productivity.
• Strong people leader with a record of mentorship and team growth.

Benefits

• Remote-first company structure
• Medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k)
• Mental wellbeing (Talkspace)
• Financial wellbeing (LearnLux)
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• A supportive, inclusive team culture
• Opportunities for continuous learning and growth at a fast-growing startup at the cutting edge intersection of financial wellness and technology

Closing

LearnLux strives to be an inclusive workplace and values learning from and engaging across different perspectives. Women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

LearnLux is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

We are committed to fostering an environment that embraces diversity and inclusion and are seeking candidates from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to join our team. If you are interested in this opportunity but not sure if you fit this role, please apply and include a note to let us know of your interest. We’re excited to speak with you about joining our team!

Salary Range

$160,000 - $215,000 USD