--- title: 'Engineering Manager, Privacy at Privacy' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-privacy-privacy-remote-xye2b49gzn84' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-30' --- # Engineering Manager, Privacy at Privacy - **Company:** Privacy - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/privacy/jobs/6184998004 ## Job description Privacy is the virtual card platform giving consumers and small businesses complete control over their online payments. Our virtual cards protect 250,000+ users across the U.S., processing over $3 billion in transactions with bank-level security and encryption. From merchant-locked cards that can't be used anywhere else if stolen, to spending limits that block unauthorized charges, to one-click pausing that stops subscriptions instantly, Privacy puts financial control back in users' hands. We're building a future where every online payment is secure by default, free from data breaches, unauthorized charges, and hidden fees. We're proud to have been named one of Forbes' "Top 100 Most Customer-Centric Companies" and featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Wirecutter. Privacy is the product that started it all. What began as Privacy.com grew into Lithic, now a Series C company backed by world-class investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. Our dedicated team of 35 sits at the heart of Lithic's 170+ person organization, spanning 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team behind [Privacy.com](http://privacy.com/) through its next phase of growth. You will lead a nimble team of engineers who own the entire [Privacy.com](http://privacy.com/) product scope. The stack is primarily NodeJS and DocumentDB on AWS ECS Fargate. This is a player-coach role. We expect you to spend roughly a third of your time hands-on coding while growing the team and keeping it focused on the highest-impact work. What You’ll Do: - Lead and grow a team of engineers, owning performance, development, and overall team health - Stay hands-on, spending roughly a third of your time coding, reviewing designs, and unblocking the team - Ensure high reliability and correctness across the [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) product, including card processing - Own multi-month initiatives from planning to launch, partnering with engineers on architectural direction while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned - Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work - Make thoughtful tradeoffs between long-term platform investment and immediate product value - Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, and pragmatic reliability improvements - Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly - Recruit, hire, and retain strong engineering talent - Participate in and help evolve the team’s on-call rotation What You Bring: - Experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and hiring - Strong technical judgment and system design skills, especially for distributed systems and high-reliability production services - Comfort staying close to the work, with the ability to code, review designs, and unblock the team - Experience shipping and operating production services, with a bias toward measurable reliability and pragmatic iteration - Experience leading a team through large, multi-month projects while balancing long-term investment against near-term delivery - Experience with NodeJS and AWS (or closely related stacks), and an ability to ramp quickly where the stack is unfamiliar - Strong cross-functional communication skills and an ability to keep teams aligned under time pressure - Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve - An interest in fintech and payments is preferred The annual US salary range for this role is $169,000 - $265,000 plus equity. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Crack the code A hidden code is tucked into this application. Find it and enter it below to continue. 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 Benefits for US Employees: - Unlimited PTO - 12-weeks fully paid parental leave - 4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary) - Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year - 3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) employee account - Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match - 401(k) match - Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD ## About Privacy ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Privacy provides virtual card technology that gives consumers and small businesses control over their online payments, shielding real card details from fraud and data breaches. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C parent company Lithic; Privacy is a product unit within Lithic) - **Headquarters**: New York City, USA - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Bo Jiang (CEO), Jason Kruse (CTO), David Nichols (CDO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Fintech / Payments / Security - Target customers: B2C (consumers) and B2B (small businesses), with a focus on individuals who value privacy and control over online spending. - Mission statement: "To make payments safer, easier, and more protected for everyone." ## Products & Services - **Privacy Virtual Cards**: SaaS-based virtual card numbers that lock to a single merchant, preventing use elsewhere if stolen. Features include one-time-use cards, spend limits, card pausing/closing, and merchant-locking. Available as a web app, mobile app, and browser extension. - **Privacy Plans (Free / Plus / Pro)**: Tiered subscription plans with varying card creation limits and premium features (e.g., 3% cashback on qualifying purchases for Plus plans). - **Category Cards**: Spend limiting by merchant category (e.g., streaming, dining) for better budget control. - **Card Sharing**: Ability to share a virtual card with trusted family or employees, with the card locking to the first merchant used. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (parent company Lithic is Series C, but specific valuation not publicly available). - **Key Metric**: Over 600,000 users (as of 2026); processed over $3 billion in transactions. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, Mastercard. - **Growth Signals**: Named among Forbes’ "Top 100 Most Customer-Centric Companies"; featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Wirecutter; growing team (35 on Privacy team within a 170+ person Lithic organization); expanding into AI-assisted development roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Merchant-Locking**: Cards automatically lock to the first merchant they are used with, preventing unauthorized use elsewhere – a unique security moat. - **Privacy by Design**: No credit pull required, no data sold to third parties, PCI-DSS compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified with 256-bit encryption. - **User Control**: Granular spend limits, instant card pausing, and one-time-use cards give users unmatched control over subscriptions and budgets. - **All-in-One Platform**: Built its own issuer processor technology, web app, mobile app, and browser extension – a vertically integrated stack. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Assisted Development**: Actively hiring engineers who are fluent with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to ship features faster while maintaining security and payments correctness. - **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build new consumer and small business features (e.g., Category Cards, card sharing) to drive adoption and user engagement. - **Scaling Infrastructure**: Growing the team and systems to support increasing transaction volume and user base, while maintaining bank-level security. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and a "whole person" approach. Team members are described as engineers, designers, runners, chefs, gamers, musicians – bringing diverse perspectives. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-friendly within the US, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, or Czech Republic. NYC-area employees are asked to work from the SoHo office three days a week. Offers "Work From Anywhere" 4 weeks per year. - **Notable Perks**: - Unlimited PTO - 12 weeks fully paid parental leave - 4-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year anniversary - 3% cashback on all purchases with a complimentary Privacy employee account - Full health, vision, dental insurance; HSA contribution match - 401(k) matching - Equity in all offer packages - Flexible PTO, voluntary life insurance, STD/LTD - **Engineering Culture**: Customer-centric, high ownership, emphasis on 0→1 projects, cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and operations. AI tooling is a core part of the engineering craft. ## Sources 1. [privacy.com/careers](https://www.privacy.com/careers) 2. [privacy.com/about](https://www.privacy.com/about) 3. [privacy.com](https://www.privacy.com/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/privacy-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/privacy-com) 5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/privacy](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/privacy/jobs/5997321004) ## Other roles at Privacy - [Compliance Analyst](https://feeny.ai/job/compliance-analyst-privacy-remote-2fej8yzwapyg) - [Staff Product Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-manager-privacy-remote-0eskm57n3s0p) - [Staff Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-privacy-remote-vc91vqvjjw1k)