Technical Engineering Manager

Role overview

Lead an engineering team responsible for building and operating software services in a complex, cross-functional environment. The role combines people leadership with hands-on engineering work, including code contributions, system design, incident response, delivery oversight, and coordination with product, quality, reliability, release, security, and architecture partners. The source indicates that hands-on work makes up about 20–30% of the role.

Responsibilities

- Guide, mentor, and evaluate software engineers, supporting their development and helping the team deliver reliably. - Contribute code, review changes, debug complex issues, design APIs, and build scalable platform services. - Shape architecture and technical direction, contribute to product roadmap decisions, and take ownership of new projects. - Coordinate engineering execution with product, security, architecture, operations, quality engineering, site reliability, and release teams. - Track engineering measures such as deployment frequency, recovery time, test coverage, and service commitments; improve delivery flow and manage workload and priorities. - Lead incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and reduce bottlenecks and technical debt while improving scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. - Encourage modern engineering practices, collaboration, learning, and responsible experimentation.

Requirements

- At least 15 years of software development or related engineering experience. - At least five years managing engineering teams. - A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience. - A hands-on development background and the ability to lead technical discussions, investigate complex problems, and provide practical engineering guidance. - Experience coordinating work across teams and managing delivery priorities, team performance, and stakeholder updates.

Nice to have

- Experience with Scrum or Kanban delivery practices. - Background in fintech, digital banking, SaaS, or another regulated industry. - Familiarity with treasury management, liquidity, commercial payments, reconciliation, or banking formats such as ISO 20022, BAI2, MT940, and EDI 820.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote-first role for candidates eligible to work full time in the United States; sponsorship is not available. - Stated salary range is $138,400–$173,000. - Benefits include unlimited paid time off and a 401(k) with employer match.