Senior Engineering Manager

SpotOn is a company focused on providing technology solutions for independent restaurants, including an award-winning point-of-sale system and AI-powered profit tools. The company has been recognized as the #1 Restaurant POS by G2 (Fall 2025) and is highly rated by Capterra users. SpotOn has received awards such as Great Places to Work and Built In’s Best Workplaces for multiple years.

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers or tech leads
• Strong technical background in modern web development (React, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience with micro frontend architectures or large-scale frontend platform teams
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
• Track record of building, retaining, and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Highly organized, able to bring structure to ambiguity and keep teams focused
• Experience with agentic software development patterns, spec-driven development, and AI-driven workflows

Nice to have:

• Experience with single-spa or similar MFE frameworks
• Familiarity with Django and PostgreSQL
• Experience with Vite, Vitest, and Playwright for build/test tooling
• Background in merchant-facing or SaaS platform products
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams
• Familiarity with i18n/localization in web applications

Leadership & People Management:

• Directly manage 5 engineers and 1 Engineering Manager (Growth team, 3 engineers)
• Coach, mentor, and grow engineers across a range of seniority levels
• Own hiring, performance management, career development, and team health
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

Technical Direction:

• Guide the technical strategy for a micro frontend (MFE) architecture built on single-spa, React, TypeScript, and Vite
• Oversee a Python/Django backend serving the merchant dashboard, backed by PostgreSQL
• Drive architectural decisions across multiple repositories and services, including shared component libraries, navigation, permissions, and the core frontend application
• Review architecture proposals, unblock engineers, and make informed build-vs-buy decisions
• Champion engineering best practices: testing (Vitest, Playwright E2E, BDD), CI/CD, code quality, and observability

Stakeholder Management & Communication:

• Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities and trade-offs
• Communicate team progress, risks, and technical decisions to leadership and the broader organization
• Translate business goals into actionable engineering plans and ensure predictable delivery
• Represent the Merchant Dashboard team in planning cycles, reviews, and cross-team coordination

Execution & Organization:

• Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery across both teams
• Maintain high organizational rigor with clear build cycle goals, well-groomed backlogs, and transparent status reporting
• Identify and mitigate risks early; remove blockers for the team
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery