Engineering Manager, Voyager (Applied AI & Innovation)

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, Voyager to help shape how AI powers our next stage of scale. You'll make high-impact, strategic decisions every day, with direct influence over the technology foundations behind a product used and loved by thousands of small businesses.

Voyager works a step ahead, exploring what's next for Relay. We build the technology foundations that make AI and insights possible across the product, and we partner with product teams so they can build quickly on top of them. We also act as Relay's innovation center, running fast, exploratory spikes on emerging technologies to establish what's viable before the company commits to it. The work spans both ends of the maturity curve, from hardening infrastructure other teams depend on to prototyping things that may not exist yet. In this role, you'll decide where the team places its bets, keep the balance between exploration and production, and grow the engineers doing the work.

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  We're looking for people who are relentless, curious, and care deeply about the work. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly match the job description -- your perspective and drive matter more. We welcome diverse backgrounds and people who think critically, challenge the status quo, and want to help small businesses thrive.

  If you require accommodations at any stage of the hiring process, please reach out to your Talent Partner.

  Disclaimer: For compliance reasons, all offers of employment at Relay are conditional upon a successful background check and employment verification through Certn.

  Important Notice: Relay’s recruitment team only contacts candidates and corresponds from official corporate email addresses ending in @relayfi.com. We will never ask for sensitive personal data (such as bank account details, credit card numbers, or social security/insurance numbers) during the initial application or interview stages.

• You've managed senior-heavy teams, including senior and staff-level engineers, and know how to lead through influence, give technical leaders room to own big problems, and keep them growing

• You have hands-on experience building agentic systems that run in production, not just prototypes, and understand what it takes to make them reliable, observable, and safe at scale

• You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products. You're technical enough to review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and earn credibility with senior engineers

• You can run a team that moves between exploration and production, and you know when a rough spike is the right answer and when something needs to be built to last

• You have strong judgment about emerging technology and can separate what's useful from what's currently loud, then explain that call clearly to leadership

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

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