Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About the Opportunity

Our platform supports thousands of entrepreneurs in growing their income and transforming their futures. We re now in a defining chapter reinventing how we build software, scaling our delivery capabilities, and creating an engineering culture that attracts and develops exceptional talent.

We re searching for a Senior Engineering Manager who is passionate about people, process, and progress. Someone who treats leadership as a craft balancing technical direction, human development, and operational excellence.

If you re driven by empowering teams, elevating engineering standards, and shaping how a modern tech organization operates, this role gives you real influence and room to build something meaningful.

Your Leadership Scope

You ll take ownership of a mixed-capacity engineering group approximately 14 developers (a blend of full-time engineers and contractors). In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers across varying levels of experience
• Drive measurable outcomes across delivery, quality, and operational health
• Own end-to-end delivery for critical products and initiatives
• Promote engineering best practices across performance, security, reliability, and automation
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to align priorities and strategy
• Foster a culture anchored in accountability, autonomy, learning, and continuous improvement

What Success Looks Like

In your first 12-18 months, success means:

• Faster and more predictable delivery cycles
• Higher team engagement and noticeable improvements in morale and ownership
• Visible innovation new ideas, prototypes, and shipped value that moves the business
• Stronger cross-team partnership, not just within your immediate group
• A leadership brand respected across the engineering organization

Our Technology Landscape

We re on a multi-year modernization path, shifting from legacy monolithic systems to a modular, event-driven, and composable architecture. You ll help shape its evolution.

Our current environment includes:

• Frontend: Angular, React, TypeScript, Next.js
• Backend: Node.js, Java (legacy services), REST APIs
• Eventing: Kafka
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFormation, Lambda)
• CI/CD & Tooling: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Dynatrace, Snyk, AI-assisted development tools
• E-commerce: Modern microservices architecture, with Hybris supporting key legacy capabilities

This is not a maintenance role you will be actively guiding a technology transformation.

Why This Role Stands Out

• True ownership over how engineering operates
• A chance to build and modernize not just maintain and patch
• A leadership path with visible growth potential
• Influence over people, process, and technology direction
• A seat at the table with leaders who expect and value your perspective

What You Bring

We re looking for a leader who has:

• Experience managing and elevating high-performing engineering teams (7-15 engineers is ideal)
• A proven ability to increase delivery velocity, engineering quality, or cultural health
• Strong coaching experience with mid-level and senior engineers
• The ability to collaborate with Product partners while still owning delivery outcomes
• A balance of strategic thinking and disciplined execution
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset

Growth Path

This role is designed with upward mobility in mind. As you demonstrate impact, you ll gain expanding responsibility, broader scope, and deeper organizational influence.