Engineering Manager

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

• Minimum 2 years of experience managing software engineers with success in coaching, mentoring, evaluating, and developing technical talent.
• Proven track record as a senior or staff-level engineer with deep understanding of production software systems.
• Deep expertise in native Android application development, including Kotlin and legacy Java codebases.
• Familiarity with modern backend services, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and Kafka.
• Experience leading product-focused engineering teams across distributed locations and time zones.
• Strong technical judgment to guide architecture, review designs, and help teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Experience improving reliability, performance, and operational quality through metrics, observability, and incident response.
• Ability to collaborate with Product and Design to translate customer and business problems into engineering plans.
• Strong bias toward action balanced with judgment on quality, reliability, and customer impact.

Nice to have:

• Experience in POS, payments, restaurant technology, fintech, mobile commerce, or mission-critical transaction systems.
• Knowledge of card-present payments, payment terminals, EMV, PCI, tap/contactless payments, refunds, settlement, reconciliation, idempotency, offline payments, or payment retry/error handling.
• Experience integrating with internal or external SDKs owned by other teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows or guiding teams in responsible AI coding agent use.

• Team & Technology Context:
  • Lead a team of approximately six to seven engineers and contractors.
  • Oversee development, testing, operational readiness, and production support of a native Android application built primarily in Kotlin with some legacy Java.
• Daily Responsibilities:
  • Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture across distributed time zones.
  • Own engineering execution for all checkout flows including payments, tips, discounts, gift cards, refunds, voids, receipts, offline flows, and related data.
  • Partner with Product and Design to define and deliver customer-centered checkout experiences.
  • Collaborate with Financial Services to integrate and influence the internal Payments SDK.
  • Guide technical decisions on Android implementation and backend services evolution toward event-driven architecture using Kafka.
  • Drive improvements in product and operational metrics such as checkout time, success rate, crash-free sessions, payment accuracy, and incident frequency.
  • Establish strong engineering practices for quality, testing, observability, incident readiness, and production support.
  • Serve in incident commander rotation and support checkout/payment-related incidents.
  • Manage delivery risks, communicate status, and ensure informed decision-making.
  • Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, career development, and delegation.

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