Engineering Manager, AffiniPay
SaaS Products
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
MySQL
Ruby on Rails
Expert level
Remote from US
Essential tools for professionals
Be an early applicant
Essential tools for professionals
501-1000 employees
FintechB2BInternal toolsPayments
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
MySQL
Ruby on Rails
Expert level
Remote from US
501-1000 employees
FintechB2BInternal toolsPayments
Company mission
To empower people to pursue their passion.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 7 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
- Proficient in modern frontend technologies such as React, NextJS
- Proficient in backend technologies such as Rails, NodeJS
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
What the job involves
- An important part of our engineering culture at 8am 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 Core Practice Management Teams, you will be a critical part of leading the development, expansion and maintenance of MyCase products and services. You will be leveraging your technical skills to build a high performance culture and help drive innovation through collaboration, process improvements, workflow optimization and AI
- Your role will be a blend of leading and supporting software engineers, collaborating with product and design and be part of the greater practice management leadership team. You will be involved in key decision making, solving business and technical problems for the company as well as refining the technology and product roadmap
- 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
- Partner with product, technology, and analytics stakeholders to balance an aggressive roadmap against engineering best practices and principals
- Refine a broader strategy for bridging multiple SaaS products in the legal space together; i.e. MyCase, CasePeer, Docketwise
- Focus on reusability and composable services - understanding the tradeoffs
- Strong AI skillset and have hands on experience with leveraging tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or similar
- Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience with leading strong technical teams - playing a hands on role
- Define strategic collaboration process and manage multiple products and services
- Collaborate with UX to modernize our product lines
- Collaborate with Architecture team to help define our SaaS and Identity platform requirements
- Ability to maximize efficiency across multiple teams using multiple technologies and programming languages
- Contribute and help design/review/decide on key technological decisions
- Ability to get hands on with software development and provide code reviews in the following technologies: Javascript/TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
- 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 multiple teams 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
- Preferred Austin, TX
Our take
Many professionals find their time taken up by administrative tasks and operational processes, leaving them fewer hours to focus on the work they love. AffiniPay supplies finance, payments and management software to make these processes swifter and easier, saving users precious time.
The company has a wide range of products including payments and reporting for accountants, legal case management software, and operations assistance for nonprofits. This broad scope allows AffiniPay to serve upwards of 150,000 professionals across legal, accounting, construction, design and association.
Recently, the company secured a significant investment from Genstar Capital that will fuel its next chapter of growth. This includes investing in innovation and the further extension of its suite of solutions.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Robust 401(k) plan
- Bonus programs based on performance and tenure
- Fantastic amount of swag and food
- Happy hours, quarterly events, as well as virtual and in-person team building
- Continuing career development and education programs
- Award program with the chance to go on once-in-a-lifetime annual incentive trips
- Frequent company-wide volunteering events to give back to our communities
- Annual charity contribution matching program for the organization of your choice
- Opportunity to share in the success of the company through our employee option program
Company HQ
Davenport Ranch West, Austin, TX
Leadership
Dru Armstrong
(CEO, not founder)Advisor for Women@Austin and Board Member at YPO. Former CEO of Grace Hill, and co-founded and was CEO at Lily Pod.
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