Software Engineering Manager

DebtBook•Charlotte, NC

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

DebtBook is an industry-leading fintech software platform that revolutionizes the way local government, higher education, and healthcare finance teams work. Our powerful, cloud-based software helps these organizations manage all aspects of their debt, cash, leases, and subscriptions, streamline financial reporting, and share information simply with others. We are passionate about modernizing treasury management and simplifying accounting compliance in the public sector, allowing organizations to break through operational barriers to unlock strategic insights. We operate with a Majestic Monolith architecture using Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL, hosted in AWS with GitLab for pipelines and deployments. We utilize feature flags for continuous integration. Our JSON API supports a Single Page App built with React, TypeScript, and MUI React. Engineers are full-stack and collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and subject matter experts. Engineering Managers oversee engineers across various projects, coaching them to lead planning, breakdown, and execution, and delegating tasks effectively.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering experience
Experience getting results through your teammates — coaching and delegating to others
Experience with some of Ruby on Rails, React, and SQL
Experience with front-end, back-end, and databases
Experience using AI-assisted development in a real engineering workflow — or genuine enthusiasm to go deep quickly
Comfort operating in a high-growth environment where priorities shift and scope evolves
Experience driving significant change. You have owned or contributed to meaningful changes, whether in one push or over time.

Responsibilities

Ramp up as an IC for your first 90 days, shipping code and being a technical lead on projects before taking on a team. This crash course is how you build the context to manage well here.
Stay hands-on so you can model good work, spot real problems, and ship alongside them when an extra hand is needed.
Identify and remove blockers, improve processes to help make your team more effective, and help us get better outcomes faster.
Get people aligned and committed around the work we need to do.
Get your team to work directly with others across the org. Don't shield your team from others.
Recruit engineers who help the team get better.
Own onboarding. The hard work doesn't stop after the offer is signed. Experienced hires should be highly productive, working independently, and leading work within 90 days.
Lead adoption of AI-assisted development. Use the tools yourself throughout the SDLC.
Effectively coach your engineers to avoid unnecessary complexity.
Be in the weeds enough to know what is going well and what isn't. Hold a high bar and give feedback quickly and directly.