Engineering Manager
Skills
Back-End Web DevelopmentBusinessContextFinanceFitMicrosoft SurfaceOperations
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years directly managing engineers with coaching performance feedback and hiring involvement
- Experience leading backend or platform teams with real operational complexity
- Strong proficiency in Go and production system development
- Technical depth to contribute to architecture discussions challenge assumptions and write code when useful
- Experience turning ambiguous problems into clear plans priorities and tradeoffs
- Good judgment around scope sequencing and risk across multiple stakeholders
- Track record of accountability for team output not just individual contribution
- Experience in fintech banking infrastructure developer tooling or regulated systems preferred
- Comfort working where reliability compliance auditability and operational risk matter
Nice to have
- Hands-on
- Strategic thinker
- Strong judgment
- Collaborative
- High ownership
Day to day
- Lead and develop engineers across backend and platform teams with coaching performance feedback and hiring support
- Turn ambiguous problems into clear execution plans and align priorities with product engineering and business stakeholders
- Partner closely on architecture tradeoffs and stay hands-on enough to review approaches unblock decisions and contribute code when useful