Engineering Manager

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, you will lead and support developers as we solve business and technical problems for the company. You will be working closely with the Product Management team in creating epics and stories for the engineering team. You'll be responsible for the continuing improvement of our teams, both in their individual roles and as a team.

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:

• Hold one-on-one meetings that surface and resolve issues early.
• Listen for, identify, and help team members remove frustrations and blockers.
• Understand individual team members' needs and create plans for them to achieve career goals.
• Create, improve, or even remove processes to let team members forecast and ship software.
• Collaborate with our Product team to help team members deliver great customer experiences.
• Work with Product and Engineering leadership to balance scope, quality, and timelines for more accurate forecasting over time.
• Help establish and reinforce a high standard of software quality alongside our Engineering and Architecture teams.
• Help the team understand requirements, breaking them down into a viable technical solution. Get appropriate team members involved and help them understand the requirements and product impact. 
• Within the Engineering team, be an advocate for our customers and push for adding as much value as possible to AffiniPay given our product roadmap as well as customer requests.
• Help manage and improve our recruiting, hiring, and onboarding processes.
• Create a culture of safety and high trust where people learn from failure and improve continuously.
• Help manage and improve our learning and personal development programs.

What we are looking for:

• Engineering background (at least 5 years working with SaaS or enterprise applications)
• Prior development or testing experience strongly desired
• Solid management experience (at least 3 years leading successful teams)
• Skills in designing and implementing processes that become self-managing
• Experience collaborating with product teams in an Agile environment
• 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