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Our technology uses the sophistication of online retail-profit measurement, attribution, and incrementality-to provide users with more value on their everyday purchases and brick-and-mortar businesses with new, profitable customers. We’ve helped millions of users earn 2 to 3 times more cashback than any other product, and hundreds of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses earn measurable profit. Billions of dollars in commerce run through the Upside platform every year, and that value goes directly back to our retailer partners, the consumers they serve, and important sustainability initiatives.\nAbout the role\nAt Upside, engineering leaders help teams make the right calls quickly; gathering the right input, taking smart risks, and shipping high-quality software that's delightful to use.\nWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Reconciliation team: a full-stack group responsible for Upside's transaction-matching pipeline, spanning our Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) front-end and our Python + Java back-end. This team owns the post-claim experience; making sure Upside can accurately verify a transaction, award cash back when it's due, and help users recover when something goes wrong.\nYou'll combine technical depth with people-first leadership to drive operational excellence, grow your team, and scale the systems behind our core product. You'll also partner closely with other engineering leaders on organizational and technical strategy across our Consumer and Partnerships platforms.\nHow you'll make an impact\nBuild a safe, collaborative team. Name problems openly and invite discussion, it's how your team does its best work.\n\nLean in beyond your lane. Bring a first-team mindset, jumping in wherever the org needs help.\n\nRaise the bar. Spot and drive improvements in quality, performance, speed, and engineering standards.\n\nGrow your people. Coach engineers, recognize their wins, and help them build skills that serve them for years.\n\nCreate clarity, not control. Set clear expectations so your team can operate with independence and confidence.\n\nWhat you'll own\nDefine and evolve the team's domain: offer reconciliation, post-claim consumer experiences, receiptful/receiptless transaction flows, and self-heal capabilities ; adapting as Upside's needs grow.\n\nChampion quality across the reconciliation stack: accuracy, reliability, observability, scalability, and clear decision-making in the systems that determine cash-back outcomes.\n\nKeep the platform secure, resilient, and production-ready, with the tooling and practices that make iteration safe and diagnosis fast.\n\nAct as a player-coach, contributing hands-on in high-leverage areas while guiding execution and modeling smart use of AI to speed up development, debugging, and system understanding.\n\nBe the team's main cross-functional partner with Product, Design, Data, Consumer Ops, and partners, keeping roadmap and strategy tied to real gains in transaction success and user trust.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n3+ years of engineering management experience, mobile or distributed API domains are a strong plus, but we care most about your leadership track record.\n\nA track record of scaling teams and leveling up systems, even when the path forward is unclear.\n\nComfort going deep on technical challenges across mobile and API infrastructure (AWS a plus) and back-end data tools (Snowflake, Hex, and similar).\n\nHands-on familiarity with mobile and API development patterns: serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, Clean Architecture is a plus; we're happy to help you build on what you already know.\n\nA bias toward clarity over consensus, especially when things are moving fast.\n\nGenuine curiosity about generative AI as a tool for improving how your team builds, ships, and improves over time.\n\nEngineering Culture:\nWe want our engineering leaders to have the time to coach and enable growth for their engineers as well as the space to make thoughtful and impactful technical contributions. We ask our managers to focus on a team of around 6-8 direct reports, while our more senior managers may operate across two teams. The staffing for these reports is always split - we see incredible value from a mix of full-time and contract staff.\nLocation:\nThis hybrid role is based in our Austin, Chicago, DC, or NYC office. In-office attendance is required on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and may increase based on project-based needs and changes to Upside’s in-office policy over time.\nCompensation: The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position varies by work location:\nTier 1: NYC $207,000 - $237,000\n\nTier 2: Austin, Chicago, Washington, DC $188,000 - $215,000\n\nIn addition to base salary, this position is also eligible for equity and benefits.\nThe final starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.\nBenefits:\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1\n\nEquity (ISOs)\n\n401(k) program\n\nFamily planning programs + paid parental leave\n\nPhysical fitness and wellness memberships\n\nEmotional and mental health support programs\n\nUnlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break\n\nFlexible work environment\n\nLunch reimbursement for in-office employees\n\nEmployee Resource Groups\n\nLearning and Development stipend\n\nTransparent culture\n\nAmazing mission!\n\nDiversity and Inclusion:\nDiversity drives innovation, and our differences make us stronger. We‘re passionate about building a workplace that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Everyone is welcome here!\nIf there's anything we can do to support a disability or special need during your application or interview process, please email .\nThis email is for accessibility accommodations only, it should not be used to submit job applications.\nNotice To Recruiters And Placement Agencies:\nThis is an in-house search with a dedicated recruiter. Please do not submit resumes to any person or email address at Upside. 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