Engineering Manager - Storefront

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for a business-critical e-commerce and payments platform. In this role, you will drive the modernization of a large-scale storefront system while improving its performance, reliability, and scalability. You will combine strong technical expertise with hands-on people leadership to turn individual talent into consistent team delivery. Working closely with senior engineers, you will guide architectural decisions and lead the transition toward a more cloud-native environment. You will also help the platform prepare for significantly higher transaction volumes while strengthening engineering practices and operational excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a critical product within a collaborative, distributed, and technology-driven environment.

• 10+ years of overall professional experience, including at least 8 years of hands-on technical experience and 1+ year in a formal engineering people-management role, managing at least 3 direct reports.

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager leading production-critical, revenue-generating platforms. This position requires established people-management experience rather than a first transition into leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven ability to develop strong individual contributors into cohesive, high-performing, and accountable engineering teams.

• Experience managing distributed teams working primarily during US business hours.

• Demonstrated experience modernizing VM-based .NET systems toward cloud-native architectures and scaling production platforms to support significantly higher traffic or transaction volumes.

• Strong technical expertise and credibility, including the ability to read code, evaluate backend architecture, understand system design trade-offs, and make or validate technical decisions.

• Solid backend engineering fundamentals, ideally with .NET and SQL Server, or the ability to quickly adapt to this technology stack.

• Strong understanding of relational database design and operations, including schema design, query performance optimization, and database locking behavior at production scale.

• Experience deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting production services in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.

• Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language, ideally .NET, Java, or Python.

• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, or equivalent solutions.

• Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and software quality practices.

• Practical proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or comparable solutions.

• Excellent leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have:

• Strong hands-on experience with .NET or Java.

• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its cloud services.

• Experience with PCI-DSS compliance and payment security requirements.

• Background in payments, fintech, or high-volume transaction processing platforms.

• Previous involvement in legacy .NET modernization, large-scale migration, or platform scalability initiatives.