Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering teams that support platforms for USDA Child Nutrition Programs, claims, compliance, and reporting for state agencies.

• Collaborate with Product, Software Engineers, and Quality Assurance Engineers to translate business priorities into dependable, high-quality software.

• Plan, drive, and monitor progress across various projects and initiatives.

• Communicate project details, impacts, and status updates to technology leadership and product stakeholders.

• Remove obstacles faced by the team and provide practical solutions to challenges.

• Oversee development and QA while aligning with business goals, employee retention, and overall well-being.

• Plan staffing for development and QA, and adjust resources as necessary.

• Define, implement, and uphold software development and QA processes and methodologies.

• Drive initiatives that enhance delivery efficiency and quality.

• Establish and implement software development processes and best practices in collaboration with engineering, QA, and Product teams.

• Identify necessary skill sets, conduct interviews, assess candidates, provide selection feedback, and assist with onboarding.

• Hold regular discussions on career growth and work progress, offering continuous feedback.

• Encourage learning from mistakes to minimize future risks.

• Set team goals, standards, and objectives; review key metrics and hold the team accountable.

• Mentor team members and create opportunities for growth and delegated responsibilities.

• Engage in incident postmortems and offer actionable feedback.

• Undertake additional assigned tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software application development, including more than 3 years leading engineering teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Experience collaborating with Product to plan, prioritize, and deliver in an agile or scrum setting.

• Familiarity with the modernization or migration of legacy applications, particularly .NET and Angular.

• Strong grasp of software quality practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with all stakeholders.

• Comfort with on-call responsibilities and incident response.

• Experience with or comparable knowledge of .NET WebForms, jQuery, Telerik ASP.NET AJAX UI Controls, .NET Framework 4.8, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server is advantageous.

• Experience in or a strong willingness to learn Angular 17+, .NET 10/C#, CQRS (MediatR), FluentValidation, PostgreSQL/AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS ECS Fargate, ElastiCache (Redis), Secrets Manager, OAuth2/OIDC authentication with Amazon Cognito, Hangfire or similar, GitHub Actions CI/CD, EF Core Migrations or FluentMigrator, and LaunchDarkly.

• Travel requirement is less than 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• 8% annual bonus.

• 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match on total earnings.

• Company bonus or target sales commission.

• Flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan.

• Paid parental leave.

• Ten paid corporate holidays each year.

• 16 paid volunteer hours.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Low deductible PPO with FSA or HDHP with HSA, including employer contributions.

• Dental coverage that includes braces for children.

• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance.

• Gym reimbursements.

• Travel assistance savings.

• Employee assistance options.

• Pet insurance options.

• Referral bonus.