Engineering Manager

About Cross River

At Cross River, we're building the financial infrastructure that powers global innovation. With our cutting-edge suite of embedded payments, cards, and lending solutions, we enable millions of businesses and consumers to transact seamlessly and securely.

With 900+ employees worldwide and an R&D center of over 160 employees in Jerusalem – we’re reshaping how financial technology is developed and delivered.

The Role: Engineering Manager

This is not just a managerial role – it’s a chance to lead a high-impact team building core products at scale. As Engineering Manager, you’ll be a technical leader, a team builder, and a strategic partner. You’ll guide your team to deliver performance, scalable, and secure software solutions, while shaping culture, structure, and product direction. From technical design to org design, you’ll have a direct influence on how we work and what we build.

You’ll work closely with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional teams to turn ambitious ideas into clean, production-ready code – while creating an environment where engineers grow, thrive, and do their best work.

Who You Are

• A collaborative leader who thrives on enabling others to succeed
• Able to balance trust and autonomy with clear technical direction
• Strategic, but not afraid to roll up your sleeves when needed
• Calm, clear, and confident in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Be both a highly technical contributor and an effective people leader
• Hold your own in technical discussion, be a subject matter expert in a product domain, and have strategic influence
• Lead team(s) that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous or high-impact area
• Work with your team and cross functional partners to define and influence strategy
• Drive roadmap creation and execution
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
• Mentor, coach, and grow your direct reports – championing career development and engagement
• Own recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for your team
• Influence engineering-wide culture, org design, and cross-functional collaboration

Requirements

What You Bring to the Table

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including API design and distributed systems
• Proven track record building and scaling high-volume, web-based solutions
• Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
• Skilled at building consensus across departments and aligning engineering with business goals
• Experience managing full project lifecycles and technical teams, including performance management
• Excellent communication in English (written and verbal)

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Flexible hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office
• ₪1,000 net monthly wellness benefit
• Full Keren Hishtalmut, private health & dental insurance
• Donation matching, volunteering days, team outings, and mentorship programs
• A mission-driven culture that values ownership, trust, and meaningful impact

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Management
• Distributed Systems
• API Design
• Cloud-Native Infrastructure
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Team Leadership
• Technical Strategy
• Product Roadmap
• Mentorship