Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Development
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:
- Partnering with product, technology, and analytics stakeholders to balance aggressive roadmap against engineering principles.
- Lead and coach a team of skilled engineers and contractors tasked with delivering secure, flexible, and scalable features to our customers
- Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
- Create a culture of safety, high trust, and openness where people learn and strive to improve
- Facilitate design, architecture, process, and development discussions
- Regularly participate in strategic planning discussions to provide insightful ideas on process improvements and challenges with ambiguous specifications
- Advocate for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
- Strong ability to breakdown large complex problems into small, simpler ones to solve technical and business problems
What we are looking for:
- 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
- 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
100% paid medical, dental, vision, disability insurance plans
Open PTO plan
401K with automatic 5% company contribution
Competitive bonus plan with anniversary rate step-up
Company equity option plan
Flexible work environment with remote work set-up
Paid parental leave
$1,000 annual charitable contribution match
AffiniSwag! (think fun branded merch)
Fun company events - in person/remote and everything in between
AffiniPayU learning and development
AffiniPals mentoring program
AffiniHealth wellness program
All the benefits of a startup culture without the downsides
The chance to be a vital team member of one of Austin's fastest-growing companies and ABJ Best Places to Work!
About AffiniPay
At AffiniPay, we’re continuously taking on exciting and interesting problems to define the direction of the financial technology industry and transform the way professionals get paid! Our aim to become leaders in FinTech has fostered our fast-paced, growth-focused culture. We’ve assembled teams of highly collaborative problem solvers who are passionate about both personal and company growth. We are eager to build, work together, and go above and beyond to be industry leaders. We also know that our people are our greatest asset and responsible for our ultimate success. As such, we invest in our team members’ growth and development, recognize accomplishments, and celebrate successes together. We’re building a winning team, and we need more creative, collaborative, and fun-loving people to help us get the job done!
AffiniPay’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Efforts:
AffiniLIFE (Learning and Inclusion For Everyone) is focused on Awareness, Community, Transparency, Diversity and Inclusion. We recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. It’s not just AffiniPay, it’s AffiniLIFE!
AffiniPay is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.