Software Engineering Manager

The Role This is a Software Engineering Manager role focused on the health, alignment, and output of the engineering team. You're likely an engineer who's ready to move into management, or an early-career engineering manager who wants to continue growing into a leadership role. We have an architect with deep technical design expertise. Your job is to work alongside them: reviewing decisions, asking the right questions, and making sure what gets designed can get built — on time, with the right people, in a sustainable way. You're the connective tissue between engineering strategy, engineering execution, and product. A meaningful part of the role is building and maintaining the systems that keep the team healthy and fast: internal tooling, development workflows, quality processes, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and cybersecurity hygiene. You'll also ensure the team is collaborating well — with each other and with the product team — that engineers are unblocked and growing, and that nothing important is falling through the cracks. What You'll Own People leadership is the core of the job. You'll set expectations, give feedback, and help engineers develop their careers. You'll work with each person according to where they're headed and what they need to get there. Engineering operations are what keep the house in order. That means the processes and tooling the team relies on every day: how work gets planned and tracked, how code gets reviewed and shipped, how incidents get handled, and how the team communicates across a busy multi-application environment. When something is slowing the team down, you'll notice and fix it. Technical oversight: you'll review engineering decisions alongside the architect, ask good questions, raise concerns, and make sure the team is building things that hold up. You don't need to be the one driving architectural design, but you need enough technical depth to be a credible partner in those conversations and to catch things that might otherwise get missed. Team alignment and collaboration is the quieter work that matters more than it looks. Keeping engineers and product teams in sync, ensuring priorities are clear on both sides, surfacing blockers before they become problems, and maintaining a culture where people do their best work. Product partnership means you're not just executing on a backlog handed down from product — you're a peer in shaping it. You'll work closely with the product team to make sure engineering constraints and product possibilities are understood on both sides, that trade-offs are made consciously, and that the team is building the right things, not just building things right. Managing engineering initiatives across a portfolio of B2C, B2B, and B2E applications means coordinating multiple workstreams simultaneously — setting milestones, tracking progress, and keeping stakeholders informed without micromanaging the engineers doing the work. What We're Looking For You've done serious engineering work and can dive into a technical discussion with enough fluency to contribute, push back, and keep the direction focused on the right needs. You don't need to be the deepest technical voice in the room, but you need to be a credible one, and you need to foster an environment that enables others to speak up. You know how to organize and engage with people — engineers and product folks alike. That means giving feedback that lands, running meetings that don't waste everyone's time, and creating conditions where engineers can focus. You're consistent, direct, and genuinely interested in how your team is doing. You're comfortable working at the seam between product and engineering. You understand that good products come from both sides thinking together, and you know how to facilitate that without losing the team's ability to move fast. You're organized. A team supporting multiple applications across the organization generates a lot of moving parts, and you're someone who keeps track of them without needing to control everything. You understand the difference between a team that's busy and a team that's productive. You'll push for the latter — and contribute to the culture that makes the team worth being on. Experience with our stack helps: Python, FastAPI, Django, React, Next.js, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Terraform, and AWS. Breadth matters more than depth here — you should be comfortable having technical conversations across that landscape, even if you're not an expert in all of it. Why This Role This isn't a role for someone looking to maintain the status quo. Our client is growing, the roadmap is ambitious, and the Digital Product Team is at the center of it. The work is meaningful — the applications we build help real people make real decisions about their financial futures — and the team has genuine ownership of what it ships. If you're energized by a fast-moving company with a strong culture, exciting initiatives on the horizon, and room to build something lasting, we'd like to talk.