Manager, Engineering

LINQ•Denver, CO

13h•$130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager at LINQ, you will lead engineering teams responsible for platforms that administer USDA Child Nutrition Programs and support claims, compliance, and reporting for state agencies. You will partner with Product, Software Engineers, and Quality Assurance Engineers to translate business priorities into reliable, high-quality software. The role balances delivery goals with the growth and well-being of the team. You will ensure teams have the people, processes, and tools needed to deliver on time and with quality. As a coach and clear communicator, you will remove obstacles and foster a culture of learning from mistakes and doing excellent work. The platforms currently use a legacy ASP.NET stack and are actively migrating to a modern stack. The position includes leading development and QA, staffing teams and projects, improving software development and quality assurance practices, recruiting and developing team members, and participating in incident response and postmortems.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software application development, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Proven experience working with Product to plan, prioritize, and deliver in an agile or scrum environment.
Experience with modernization or migration of legacy applications.
Strong understanding of software quality practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Experience recruiting, hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
Comfort with on-call responsibilities and incident response.
Angular 17+ experience or strong eagerness to learn.
.NET 10 / C# experience or strong eagerness to learn.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn API design using CQRS (MediatR) and FluentValidation.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora PostgreSQL).
Experience or strong eagerness to learn AWS services including ECS Fargate, ElastiCache (Redis), and Secrets Manager.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn OAuth2/OIDC-based authentication using Amazon Cognito.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn Hangfire or similar background job processing.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn database migration tooling such as EF Core Migrations or FluentMigrator.
Experience or strong eagerness to learn feature flag management tools such as LaunchDarkly.

Nice To Haves

Experience modernizing or migrating legacy applications, ideally .NET and Angular.
Experience with legacy ASP.NET technologies, including .NET WebForms, jQuery, Telerik ASP.NET AJAX UI Controls, .NET Framework 4.8, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Experience with or strong eagerness to learn the listed modern-stack technologies.

Responsibilities

Partner with Product to plan, drive, and monitor multiple projects and initiatives, ensuring they are delivered on time and meet scope and quality expectations.
Develop realistic solutions to obstacles and communicate project details, impact, and status clearly to technology leadership and product stakeholders.
Remove impediments so team members can complete tasks and achieve goals with minimal friction.
Lead development and QA, delivering projects successfully while supporting business goals, employee retention, and team well-being.
Plan staffing across development and QA for individual teams and large projects, realigning resources as priorities change.
Guide the definition, implementation, and maintenance of software development and quality assurance processes and methodologies, and lead initiatives to improve efficiency and deliverable quality.
Partner with engineers, QA, and Product to define and implement software development processes and best-practice strategies.
Identify required skill sets for development and QA openings, interview and assess candidates, provide selection feedback, and support positive onboarding.
Meet regularly with team members to discuss career growth and work progress, review deliverables, and provide immediate, ongoing feedback.
Foster a culture of sharing and learning from mistakes, providing guidance to reduce recurrence risks and help the team recover and move forward.
Establish team goals, standards, and objectives; review key metrics and hold the team accountable for progress.
Assess individual skills and career goals, and foster growth through coaching and opportunities to stretch beyond current roles through delegation.
Provide clear guardrails for assigned tasks, check in regularly, and help team members develop the skills needed to succeed.
Participate in incident postmortems and provide thoughtful, actionable feedback.
Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Benefits

401(k) plan with a 4% employer match on total earnings.
Company bonus or target sales commission.
Flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan.
Paid parental leave.
Ten paid corporate holidays each year.
16 paid volunteer hours.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Flexible spending account or health savings account options, with employer contributions to the HSA.
Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life, and AD&D insurance.
Gym reimbursements.
Travel assistance savings.
Employee assistance program.
Pet insurance options.
Employee referral bonus.