[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Finalsite

Role Description

Finalsite's storefront platform is the system districts use to collect fees, run online stores, and manage school payments at scale. It's one of the company's largest products, and it's mid-modernization on a VM-based .NET stack, with real production-scale strain, including performance bottlenecks and logging and observability gaps, that the team is actively working through. The team has strong technical talent but has lacked a dedicated people leader to turn that talent into consistent delivery.

This is a foundational people-leadership hire: you'll build and lead the team that carries the modernization forward and scales the platform for significantly more payments traffic, working alongside its strongest technical owners rather than around them. Based in LatAm to keep close overlap with the US-based team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall experience (8+ years hands-on technical, 1+ years as a people manager with 3+ direct reports); prior experience as an Engineering Manager, not someone stepping into people management for the first time, on a production, revenue-critical platform
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• A track record of turning strong individual contributors into a functioning, decisive team
• Comfort managing a remote team operating primarily within US business hours
• Experience modernizing a VM-based .NET system toward a cloud-native architecture
• Experience scaling a production system to handle significantly higher transaction or traffic volume
• Strong technical credibility: you can read the codebase directly, reason about backend architecture and system design trade-offs, and make or validate technical calls, not just review status
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals with a .NET / SQL Server-based stack, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in one
• Working knowledge of relational database design and operations (SQL Server): schema design, query-performance tuning, and locking behavior at production scale
• Familiarity with running and debugging a production service in a cloud environment (Azure preferred)
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one programming language, ideally .NET, Java, or Python
• Experience with at least one observability platform (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, or comparable)
• Deep experience with automated testing frameworks
• Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or comparable AI-assisted development tools

Requirements

• Lead and grow the storefront engineering team, hiring and developing engineers as it scales
• Own the team's delivery: sequence modernization work alongside the platform's scaling roadmap
• Partner closely with the team's senior technical owners on architecture and solution decisions
• Drive resolution of the platform's current production-scale and reliability issues as part of the modernization effort
• Scale the platform to reliably support significantly more payments traffic
• Bring process and decisiveness to a team that has had strong ICs but lacked consistent leadership
• Hold regular 1:1s, give direct feedback, and build the team's day-to-day operating rhythm
• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of how the team carries the modernization forward

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative culture built on partnership and purpose

Company Description

Finalsite is the most valued partner for K–12 schools to build trust, strengthen community, and grow enrollment. Ranked among the best EdTech Companies in America, Finalsite supports more than 7,000 schools and districts worldwide with an integrated platform for websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services.

Headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Finalsite is a global company with employees working remotely across nearly every U.S. state, as well as throughout Europe, South America, and Asia.

At Finalsite, every interaction matters — with our clients, with each other, and with the schools and families we serve. Join us and help shape stronger school communities around the world.