Engineering Manager, Accounting & Reconciliation

About the role

You'll lead a team building Dave's internal financial source of truth from the ground up. This is a greenfield effort to replace external systems with a proprietary ledger and reconciliation platform that supports all current and future products. This work sits at the intersection of distributed systems and real-world financial operations, where correctness is non-negotiable. You'll partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Product, and Data to translate how money actually moves into systems that are deterministic, traceable, and built to stand up to audit. Not everything is fully defined - you'll help shape the foundation. What You'll Build & Own Lead and grow a small, high-leverage team building ledger systems and reconciliation pipelines from the ground up Define architecture that prioritizes correctness, idempotency, and auditability over short-term convenience Design and evolve double-entry ledger models, transaction lifecycles, and reconciliation workflows across multiple products Build systems that reconcile internal state with external partners (banks, processors, networks) with high confidence Partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Product, and Data Engineering to encode financial rules and controls directly into system design Establish engineering practices focused on data integrity, observability, and reliable recovery The Impact Your team owns the integrity of Dave's financial systems. The systems you build determine whether every transaction can be trusted, explained, and audited - supporting regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and member trust across all products.

Responsibilities

• You'll join at an early stage of building a foundational platform. The problems are complex and evolving, and you'll have real autonomy to shape both the system and the team. Decisions are grounded in

Requirements

• Experience & Technical Foundation
• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 1.5+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience operating in environments where correctness is non-negotiable (e.g., payments, banking, lending, or financial infrastructure)
• Strong understanding of data correctness, transactional integrity, and consistency models
• Experience designing systems where accuracy and auditability are first-order concerns
• Familiarity with distributed systems challenges (idempotency, ordering, failure recovery, eventual consistency)
• Experience partnering with Accounting, Finance, or similar stakeholders to translate domain requirements into technical systems
• Track record of building and developing high-performing teams
• Bonus
• Hands-on experience with ledger systems, reconciliation infrastructure, or accounting platforms
• Background in fintech or financial services
• Experience implementing double-entry accounting models in software
• Exposure to audit, compliance, or financial reporting systems
• Familiarity with TypeScript (Node.js), MySQL, GCP; Python experience is a plus
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Benefits

Additional Information

Dave vs. Goliath. We're Dave. Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. It is redefining the financial landscape by leveraging technology to create an affordable, transparent, and user-centric access to liquidity for millions of Americans. As a leading innovator in the U.S. financial services sector, Dave's digital financial platform offers products designed to meet the credit needs of those underserved by traditional financial institutions. Dave's offerings include its flagship ExtraCash product, providing members up to $500 within minutes. The company is on track to launch several new product offerings in 2026, including a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option. Dave is focused on serving Americans who are financially vulnerable or living paycheck to paycheck. Dave is leading the charge in creating a new era of credit products that prioritizes speed, affordability, and accessibility, making it the go-to financial partner for those who need it most. Dave is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Ledger & Reconciliation Platform team - the systems that ensure every dollar moving through Dave is correct, fully accounted for, and auditable end-to-end.

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