Engineering Manager - Storefront

Finalsite

5d•Remote

About The Position

Finalsite is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for its storefront platform, which districts use to collect fees, run online stores, and manage school payments. The platform is one of Finalsite’s largest products and is undergoing modernization on a VM-based .NET stack. The team is addressing production-scale challenges, including performance bottlenecks and gaps in logging and observability, while preparing the platform to support significantly more payments traffic. This is a foundational people-leadership role. The manager will build and lead the engineering team, guide delivery of the modernization and scaling work, and partner with senior technical owners on architecture and solution decisions. The role calls for a technically credible leader who can work directly with code and backend architecture while establishing consistent team processes, coaching engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools. The position is described as 100% remote and based in LatAm for close collaboration with the US-based team. The posting also states that Finalsite remote employment opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States, and that current and continued US residency is required for employment.

Requirements

10+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years of hands-on technical experience and at least 1 year as a people manager with 3+ direct reports.
Prior experience as an Engineering Manager on a production, revenue-critical platform; the role is not intended for someone entering people management for the first time.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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 substantially higher transaction or traffic volume.
Technical credibility, including ability to read a codebase, reason about backend architecture and system-design trade-offs, and make or validate technical decisions.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals with a .NET / SQL Server-based stack, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in one.
Working knowledge of relational database design and operations with SQL Server, including schema design, query-performance tuning, and locking behavior at production scale.
Familiarity with running and debugging a production service in a cloud environment; Azure is preferred.
Demonstrated expertise in at least one programming language, ideally .NET, Java, or Python.
Experience with at least one observability platform, such as Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, or a comparable platform.
Deep experience with automated testing frameworks.
Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or comparable AI-assisted development tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience with .NET or Java specifically.
Deep experience with Azure.
Hands-on PCI compliance experience, including familiarity with PCI-DSS requirements as they apply to storefront payment workflows.
Experience in payments or fintech, particularly with platforms handling high transaction volume.
Prior experience with modernization, scaling, or migration of a legacy .NET system.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the storefront engineering team, including hiring and developing engineers as the team scales.
Own team delivery by sequencing modernization work alongside the platform’s scaling roadmap.
Partner with senior technical owners on architecture and solution decisions.
Drive resolution of production-scale and reliability issues as part of the modernization effort.
Scale the platform to reliably support significantly more payments traffic.
Establish process and decisive leadership for a team that has previously lacked consistent leadership.
Hold regular one-on-ones, give direct feedback, and build the team’s day-to-day operating rhythm.
Use AI-assisted development tools as part of the team’s modernization work.