[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Aqua Finance, Inc.

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performing, fully distributed engineering team accountable for delivery, quality, and growth, while building a culture of ownership, clear communication, and continuous improvement. Your primary focus is enabling your engineers to do their best work.

• Hire, onboard, coach, and retain engineers, creating individual growth plans and providing timely, candid feedback through regular one-on-ones and fair performance reviews.
• Own team planning, prioritization, and delivery, working closely with product management to scope work and ensure quality outcomes.
• Critically evaluate development estimates and proposed technical solutions, asking probing questions to test assumptions and surface risks.
• Investigate and root out the underlying causes of delivery delays, quality problems, and production incidents.
• Review code and technical designs to uphold standards for quality, security, maintainability, and performance.
• Encourage and guide the responsible use of AI tools to improve team productivity and code quality.
• Promote strong engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.
• Ensure production systems are reliable through sound on-call, incident response, and postmortem practices.
• Define, track, and report on team health and delivery metrics to continuously improve how the team works.
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers clearly and early to stakeholders.
• Establish team norms and rituals that keep a remote, multi-time-zone team connected and engaged.
• Contribute to department-level planning, hiring standards, and engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or commensurate work experience required.
• 5 years of professional software development experience, with solid depth in C# and the .NET platform required.
• 3 years of people management experience in a technical field required.
• Proven track record of delivering complex software projects with distributed or remote teams.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Financial industry experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze problems to their root cause and to constructively challenge estimates, designs, and technical approaches.
• Working knowledge of solution architecture, secure coding practices, software design principles, and system scalability.
• Working knowledge of cloud-hosted application development using Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and agile methodologies, and with AI-assisted development tools.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, give constructive feedback, and grow engineers at different levels.
• Strong product and business mindset, with a focus on the outcomes the technology delivers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong asynchronous communication habits.

Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and floating holidays to support time away from work.
• Medical, dental, vision, and additional coverage options.
• Company-matched 401(k) plan to help you invest in your future.
• Training, career growth, and educational opportunities to support your development.
• An emphasis on flexibility and support both inside and outside of work.
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives along with paid volunteer opportunities.

What to Expect

This is primarily an office-based role that requires regular use of a computer and the ability to sit for extended periods. While performing the responsibilities of this position, employees may frequently be required to sit, stand, walk, communicate verbally, hear, use vision, and handle or operate office equipment. The employee may occasionally be required to lift, push, or pull up to 20 pounds.