Software Engineering Manager

Role overview Lead a fully distributed software engineering team responsible for delivering and operating reliable products. You’ll guide engineers’ growth, shape team planning and technical decisions, and partner with product, architecture, and other engineering groups to turn business priorities into effective software. The role combines people leadership with enough technical depth to challenge assumptions and help resolve difficult delivery or production issues.

Responsibilities - Hire, onboard, coach, and retain engineers; set growth plans and provide regular feedback and performance reviews. - Own team planning and prioritization with product partners, and track delivery, risks, and blockers. - Evaluate estimates, designs, and proposed solutions; surface risks and guide the team toward practical approaches. - Investigate delivery delays, quality issues, and production incidents, then drive lasting fixes. - Review designs and code for quality, security, maintainability, and performance. - Support reliable operations through testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, on-call practices, and postmortems. - Build remote team norms and clear asynchronous communication, while contributing to broader engineering planning and culture.

Requirements - A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. - At least five years of professional software development experience, including substantial experience with C# and .NET. - At least three years of people management experience in a technical field. - A record of delivering complex software projects with distributed or remote teams across the software lifecycle. - Working knowledge of architecture, secure coding, software design, scalability, and cloud-hosted development. - Ability to coach engineers, identify root causes, challenge technical assumptions constructively, and connect engineering work to business outcomes. - Strong written and verbal communication, including effective asynchronous collaboration.

Nice to have - Financial industry experience. - Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or GCP; CI/CD and Agile practices; and AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits and work setup - Benefits include paid time off and holidays, medical, dental and vision coverage, a matched retirement plan, professional development opportunities, and paid volunteer opportunities. - The role is primarily office-based.