Job Title:
Software Engineering Manager

Role Overview
This role sits within a growing product-focused technology company operating in a complex, customer-facing domain. The engineering organization is intentionally lean, and this position exists to add leverage: someone who can stay deeply hands-on while also elevating technical quality, decision-making, and team execution.

This is a true player-coach role, ideal for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys writing production code while guiding architecture, mentoring engineers, and partnering closely with product to ship meaningful features.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spend the majority of time writing and shipping backend code, with a smaller but meaningful portion dedicated to team leadership

• Design, build, and maintain backend services using modern .NET technologies

• Own architectural decisions and guide long-term technical direction

• Lead code reviews and raise engineering quality, performance, and reliability

• Mentor engineers through feedback, pairing, and career development

• Collaborate closely with product and stakeholders to deliver customer-facing features

• Support and evolve cloud infrastructure across public cloud environments

Education & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience

• 2+ years in a technical leadership or player-coach management role

• Strong expertise with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Web APIs, and SQL-based data stores

• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)

• Background building and scaling consumer-facing or B2B product platforms

• Strong communication skills and sound technical judgment

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in travel, logistics, or similarly complex transaction-heavy domains

• Exposure to AI-enabled product features or systems

• Background in small to mid-sized product-driven technology companies

Why Us:

• High-impact role with real ownership and technical influence

• Opportunity to shape architecture and engineering standards

• Balance of hands-on coding and pragmatic leadership

• Close collaboration with product on meaningful, customer-facing work

• A team that values clarity, execution, and thoughtful decision-making

Benefits and Perks:

• Competitive base salary with equity participation

• Comprehensive health and benefits package

• Flexible work arrangements for U.S.-based candidates

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future. This position does not offer sponsorship.

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