An important part of our engineering culture at AffiniPay is to build and grow teams that do their best work, and our Engineering Managers play an important role in supporting this.

As an Engineering Manager for our Backend Services Team, you will be a critical part of leading the development and maintenance of Affinipay’s platform services. These services are critical to enabling access to our SaaS product for our partners and providing critical functionality to internal and external customers.

You will lead and support software engineers as we solve business and technical problems for the company. You will be working with teams across the company to turn business and strategic objectives into granular requirements for implementation.

In the longer term, success in this role looks like a cohesive, high-functioning, and diverse group of software engineers who help each other deliver high-quality software on predictable timelines.

Your Day to Day:

• Partner with product, technology, and analytics stakeholders to balance an aggressive roadmap against engineering best practices and principals.
• Coach a team of skilled engineers and contractors and create a culture of safety, high trust, and openness where people learn and strive to improve.
• Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Guide the team with technology decisions and best practices using their experience with a variety of development technologies and languages.
• Facilitate the design, development, and delivery of secure, flexible, and scalable software.
• Participate regularly in strategic planning discussions to provide insightful ideas on process improvements and challenges with ambiguous specifications.
• Steer the team in troubleshooting production issues, ensuring there is proper test case coverage and leading to resolution of bugs in new and existing code.
• Determine project scope, limitations, and capabilities and make project-specific recommendations to assist the engineering team with successful project completion.
• Advocate for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy.
• Strong ability to break down large, complex problems into small, simpler ones to solve technical and business problems.
• Communicate well with multiple engineering teams as well as with leadership across product and project stakeholders as well as other leadership and executives within AffiniPay.

About You:

• Minimum of 5 years experience directly leading software developers.
• Significant experience with addressing interpersonal conflicts/critical issues, organizing resources to meet strategic goals, mentoring/coaching employees, conducting employee performance evaluations, and recruiting/retaining talent.
• Experience with a variety of technologies, languages, making good technical and business decisions, and balancing technical debt with feature work.
• Experience setting up, running, and completing large scale, cross-team engineering projects successfully, including predicting dates with a large degree of accuracy and negotiating requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication, prioritization, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong experience with resolving conflict and building trust within and between teams.
• A track record of building and managing high-functioning, inclusive, diverse, and productive teams.

Additional Information:

The base pay range for this position is between $$150,000-$200,000 USD annually. The salary range for performing this role outside of the US / Austin / California may differ. AffiniPay is committed to offering competitive, fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and education.