Senior Software Development Manager, UTA
$200-250k
Talent & entertainment agency
Open for applications
Talent & entertainment agency
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape talent, build careers, and tell stories.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years leading backend/platform teams or delivering complex financial systems
- Expertise in backend engineering with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL (or equivalent)
- Strong background in AWS architecture
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience with event-driven systems and microservice architectures
- Proven track record delivering systems with high audit/compliance requirements
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms like NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, or Stripe
- Strong understanding of data modeling, transactional workflows, and secure service architecture
- Experience working in compliance-focused environments requiring auditability and financial precision
- Experience with financial systems such as payments, trust accounting, GL integration, and revenue recognition
- Prior exposure to platforms with complex domain logic (e.g., deal tracking, contingent compensation, or booking systems)
- Experience with serverless architecture and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) patterns
- Understanding of multi-party payments, invoicing workflows, and tax handling (e.g., 1099s, VAT)
- Exposure to platform compliance tools (e.g., Datadog compliance checks, AWS Config, Prisma, or Wiz)
- Understanding of data privacy requirements (e.g., PII, GDPR, CCPA) and secure data flows
What the job involves
- UTA seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead engineering execution for our enterprise financial systems
- This role is responsible for building and scaling the applications that power payments, invoicing, revenue recognition, and deal execution across the company
- You will drive technical strategy, lead system design, and ensure the delivery of reliable, secure, and compliant backend services
- This is a hands-on engineering leadership role—focused on execution, architecture, and cross-functional delivery across AWS infrastructure and enterprise systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and banking/payment platforms
- Own the design and development of scalable backend services for payments, revenue recognition, and financial workflows
- Lead end-to-end development of backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) and frontend applications (React, TypeScript)
- Design APIs, data models, and UI integrations to deliver cohesive financial tools and internal dashboards
- Provide full-stack ownership across key financial systems
- Lead integrations across the enterprise deal-to-cash ecosystem- ingesting deals from upstream domain/producer systems, and publishing fulfillment events to downstream settlement and finance systems
- Define service boundaries, reliability SLAs, and domain models aligned with high-volume financial operations
- Architect cloud-native systems on AWS using Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, and EventBridge
- Embed security-first principles across system design, architecture, and development
- Implement defense-in-depth strategies, including fine-grained IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and auditable data flows
- Design secure workflows for financial transactions, client data, and third-party integrations
- Partner with InfoSec to ensure alignment with zero-trust models, least-privilege access, and continuous monitoring
- Lead efforts in service hardening, secure CI/CD pipelines, secret management, and proactive risk mitigation
- Ensure all platform components meet internal controls and compliance standards
- Manage and grow a high-performing team of backend and platform engineers
- Drive roadmap execution and delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, operational discipline, and ownership
- Serve as the technical escalation point for architectural trade-offs, production challenges, and system design
- Partner with product managers, architects, external vendors, and finance stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features
- Translate financial and contractual rules into deterministic, reusable service logic
- Drive quality, automation, and performance in domains where accuracy and compliance are essential
Our take
Founded in 1991, UTA represents some of the world’s most acclaimed and recognised figures - from actors and athletes to writers and digital influencers. These include Lizzo, The Coen Brothers, Bad Bunny and Timothee Chalamet.
The entertainment landscape is in a permanent state of flux, but the boom of digital and social media has brought rise to new kinds of talent. To remain on the cultural pulse, UTA has expanded its business into gaming, digital media and influencers, as younger consumers spend more time playing games or watching social content over traditional media.
With the acquisitions of Fletcher & Company and Curtis Brown, UTA took on the estates of esteemed literary figures like John le Carré and Ian Fleming. This reflects a larger competition between agencies to acquire intellectual property to develop into content. In doing so, UTA hopes to find competitive edge over other dominant agencies, WME and CAA.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Beverly Hills, CA
Leadership
Jeremy Zimmer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has served as CEO for UTA since 1991.
Jim Berkus
(Co-Founder & Chair)Served as a partner at Leading Artists Agency, which merged with Bauer-Benedek Agency to form UTA.
Peter Benedek
(Co-Founder & Owner)Also served as a partner at Bauer-Benedek Agency.
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