Relay is a digital banking platform that gives self-made business owners the tools and know-how to be great with money—bringing clarity, confidence, and control to every dollar earned, so they can turn hard work into lasting success. We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.

Relay is entering an exciting new chapter, and we're hiring an Engineering Manager, Risk to help shape our next stage of scale. You'll make high-impact, strategic decisions every day, with direct influence over a product used and loved by thousands of small businesses.

Our Risk Engineering team is building automated systems that detect, prevent, and mitigate financial risk and fraud—while maintaining a seamless customer experience and minimizing manual intervention. In this role, you’ll help scale and evolve these capabilities to support Relay’s growth, balancing effective risk management with a frictionless user experience. You’ll work on thoughtful, reliable solutions that enable the business to grow safely and confidently, alongside a team that moves quickly, ships with care, and takes ownership.

What You’ll Be Doing

Delivery Leadership: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of risk-critical engineering initiatives, ensuring systems meet high standards of quality, reliability, and safety

Team Operations: Ensure engineering processes and rituals effectively support high-stakes systems, including thoughtful sprint planning, strong code reviews, and rigorous technical design reviews

Technical Strategy: Partner with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and other partners to turn ambiguous risk challenges into clear, scalable engineering solutions

People Management & Development: Build and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management

Culture & Growth: Foster a collaborative, feedback-driven environment that supports continuous learning and professional development; encourage mentorship and knowledge sharing while creating opportunities for team development

Who You Are

You bring 5+ years of full-stack software development experience, ideally within a high-growth B2B SaaS or fintech environment, along with 1-3 years in a people management role

You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products; experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and AWS is a plus

You’ve built and owned internal tools or platforms, working closely with stakeholders to transform ambiguous problems into scalable, reliable systems that drive real impact

You’re passionate about building and scaling engineering teams, and deeply invested in growing and developing people to do their best work

You communicate clearly and effectively, and bring calm and clarity in times of ambiguity and change

You’re a pragmatic decision-maker with a customer-centric mindset, able to navigate tradeoffs around scope, technical debt, and timelines while keeping customer needs front and center

You demonstrate strong engineering judgment, thoughtfully weighing the impact of decisions on customers and the business, particularly in high-stakes or irreversible scenarios

You thrive in cross-functional environments, bringing teams together, connecting the dots, and driving initiatives that deliver meaningful impact

Our Tech Stack

Front-end: React, Typescript, React Native

Back-end: Node.js, Typescript, Terraform, AWS (DynamoDB, RDS Postgres, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, ElasticSearch, ECS)

Tools: Cursor, Claude, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Jira, Metabase

The Interview Process

Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the Talent team

Stage 2: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with our Engineering Leaders