Manager, Engineering

About The Role:

As an Engineering Manager at LINQ, you will lead the engineering teams behind our platforms for administering USDA Child Nutrition Programs, supporting claims, compliance, and reporting for state agencies. You’ll partner closely with Product, Software Engineers, and Quality Assurance Engineers to turn business priorities into reliable, high-quality software. You will balance delivery goals with the growth and well-being of your team, making sure each team has the right people, processes, and tools to deliver on time and with quality. You are a coach and a clear communicator who removes obstacles and builds a culture where people learn from mistakes and do their best work.

What You’ll do:

Partner with Product to plan, drive, and monitor progress across multiple projects and initiatives, so they are delivered on time and meet scope and quality expectations.

Provide realistic solutions to obstacles, and communicate project details, impact, and status in a clear, meaningful way to technology leadership and product stakeholders.

Remove impediments for the team so they can complete tasks and reach goals with minimal friction.

Lead both development and QA, and make sure projects are delivered successfully while supporting business goals and employee retention and well-being.

Plan staffing across development and QA for individual teams and large projects, realigning resources as needed to meet prioritized needs.

Guide the definition, implementation, and maintenance of software development and quality assurance processes and methodologies, and drive initiatives that improve the efficiency and quality of deliverables.

Partner with engineers, QA, and Product to define and implement solutions and strategies around software development process and best practices.

Identify the skill sets needed for open development and QA positions, interview and assess candidates, and give feedback on selection while creating a positive onboarding experience.

Meet regularly with each team member to discuss career growth and work progress, review deliverables, and give immediate, ongoing feedback that highlights contributions and opportunities for improvement.

Foster a culture where the team is comfortable sharing mistakes and learning from them, and provide guidance that reduces the risk of recurrence while helping the team recover and move forward.

Establish team goals, standards, and objectives, review key metrics, and hold the team accountable for progress.

Assess individual skill sets and career goals on an ongoing basis, and foster growth through coaching and opportunities to stretch beyond current roles through delegation.

Make sure team members have clear guardrails around assigned tasks, check in regularly, and help them develop the skill sets they need to succeed.

Participate in incident postmortems and give thoughtful, actionable feedback.

Perform additional tasks as assigned.

What We’re Looking For:

8+ years of experience in software application development, including 3+ years leading engineering teams

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

Proven experience working with Product to plan, prioritize, and deliver in an agile or scrum environment

Experience with modernization or migration of legacy applications, ideally .NET and Angular

Strong understanding of software quality practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing

Experience recruiting, hiring, coaching, and developing engineers

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders

Comfort with on-call responsibilities and incident response

The Tech:

Currently built on a legacy ASP.NET stack; experience with these or comparable technologies is a plus:

NET WebForms,

jQuery,

Telerik ASP.NET AJAX UI Controls

.NET Framework 4.8, C#

Microsoft SQL Server

Actively migrating to a modern stack; experience in the following technologies (or strong eagerness to learn) is required:

Angular 17+

.NET 10 / C#

API design using CQRS (MediatR) and FluentValidation

PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora PostgreSQL)

AWS services: ECS Fargate, ElastiCache (Redis), Secrets Manager

OAuth2/OIDC-based authentication (Amazon Cognito)

Hangfire or similar background job processing

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Database migration tooling (EF Core Migrations or FluentMigrator)

Feature flag management (e.g., LaunchDarkly)

Travel Requirements:

Less than 10%

Compensation

We offer a competitive salary of $130,000-$150,000 + a 8% annual bonus.