Manager, Software Engineering

TAXWELL

. Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance, professional development, and career growth .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading software engineering teams, with a strong focus on technical direction for document-processing pipelines and cloud-native architectures. Proven ability to balance product velocity with security and compliance while enhancing team productivity and onboarding processes.

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C#/.NET DevelopmentCloud-Native ArchitecturesTeam LeadershipDocument Processing SystemsCI/CD and Automated Testing

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentAPIsEvent-Driven ProcessingAsynchronous ProcessingProduction SupportKubernetes DeploymentAI-Assisted Engineering ToolsOCRData IngestionCloud-Service Integration

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationCoachingProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

AWS LambdaAWS SQSAWS S3AWS DynamoDBObservability ToolingStructured LoggingMetrics Practices

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesTaxAccountingPaymentsRegulated Domains

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDynamoDBKubernetes.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance, professional development, and career growth
Own team delivery through planning, prioritization, work assignments, resource planning, Product commitments, and production follow-through
Improve onboarding speed and engineer productivity through scoped first tasks, review and pairing support, progressive production-debugging exposure, and ramp monitoring
Provide technical direction for document-processing pipelines covering ingestion, OCR, classification, extraction, state, and delivery
Balance product velocity with security, compliance, and reliability requirements
Run and improve CI/CD, release management, automated testing, observability, production incident response, and blameless post-incident learning
Support adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools with standards for correctness, security, and maintainability
Coordinate with platform and security teams on infrastructure, hardening, and compliance work
Troubleshoot complex cross-service production issues involving application code, queues, object storage, state records, configuration, logs, and external dependencies
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, estimates, delivery status, and operational health with Product and business stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
Approximately 8+ years of professional software development experience
Minimum of 2 years leading or managing software engineers who shipped production software
Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET and backend product engineering, including APIs, event-driven and asynchronous processing, and cloud-service integration
Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS serverless (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB or close equivalents); Azure experience is a reasonable substitute
Experience owning or jointly owning production support for business-critical services
Demonstrated ability to hire, onboard, and ramp engineers quickly
Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and problem-solving skills
Experience managing teams that built document processing, OCR, classification, extraction, data-ingestion, or other event-driven data pipeline systems
Experience in tax, financial services, accounting, payments, or other regulated domains handling sensitive customer data
Experience managing mixed employee/contractor and distributed or nearshore teams
Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment, observability tooling, and structured logging/metrics practices
Hands-on experience governing AI-assisted engineering tools

Benefits

Comp & perks

Supportive, open, and inclusive atmosphere
Equal opportunity employment
Disability accommodations available during the hiring process