Engineering Manager
First seen by Alion on Aug 13, 2026.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Were looking for an Engineering Manager who treats engineering management as a systems problem, not a career milestone.
Youll lead engineers while staying close to the technical coreowning architecture, modeling decisions, and execution quality in a domain where correctness matters as much as velocity.
Technical & Product Ownership:
- Build and evolve core platform features.
- Design and ship APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation, usage metering, invoicing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
- Model complex financial workflows.
- Work deeply on pricing logic, proration, true-ups, multi-currency handling, approval workflows, and event-driven billing pipelineswhere small decisions have long-term consequences.
- Make architectural trade-offs.
- Balance ship it now against live with it forever while scaling systems that process high-volume usage data and real-time financial calculations.
- Stay technically fluent.
- You wont write code every day, but youll review PRs, catch subtle bugs, and guide design discussions with confidence.
Team Leadership & Management:
- Lead and grow the engineering team.
- Mentor and manage engineers across experience levels, setting clear expectations and raising the bar on ownership, execution, and quality.
- Create high-output systems.
- Establish clear problem definitions, focused execution cycles, code reviews that actually catch issues, and enough slack for engineers to thinknot just ship.
- Debug team dynamics like software.
- Observe signals, form hypotheses, intervene deliberately, and measure outcomeswhether the issue is delivery, alignment, or collaboration.
- Build the team intentionally.
- Design interviews that surface real problem-solving ability, not just pattern matching. At this stage, every hire shifts the average.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product, Finance, and Customer Success to translate real-world contract terms into correct, scalable systems.
- Partner with stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems where requirements evolve and trade-offs are unavoidable.
- Ensure systems remain accurate, auditable, and compliant as the product scales.
Ideal Candidate:
- Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.
- Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility.
- Must have directly managed 46+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.
- Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.
- Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems.
- Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.
- Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments.
- Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement.
- Tier 1 engineering college preferred.
Skills
Technical Architect, IT Product Development