Engineering Manager - Hands-On Java Leader (Remote)

NEPSE Trading

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision paid 100%

401k with 6% match

FSA and Dependent Care FSA

Disability coverage

Paid Time Off

Job summary

PayJunction is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, shipping production Java while setting technical direction and quality standards. You will drive delivery predictability on a payments platform with strong emphasis on security and PCI DSS compliance.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, 3+ years in senior/management roles, and a track record of hands-on leadership, code reviews, and Scrum leadership. Remote/hybrid options supported.

Qualifications

7+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on ownership of production systems.
3+ years at Senior Engineer level or above; spent at least half of your most recent management role hands-on in the code and can still operate at that level.
3+ years of engineering management, directly managing a team of 4 or more engineers, including hiring and performance reviews.
5+ years of Java experience including web frameworks, with production Java written within the last 12 months.
2+ years running Scrum ceremonies as Scrum Master or the accountable equivalent, not just participating in them.

Responsibilities

Own the team's technical vision and roadmap, lead design reviews for major initiatives, and identify and mitigate the key technical risks in a payments platform.
Run the team's Scrum ceremonies as the accountable leader, from planning and grooming through pointing and retros, protecting sprint scope from interrupt load so the team finishes what it commits to.
Partner with Product to scope, phase, and size initiatives before commitments are made, and negotiate scope when a request exceeds capacity rather than absorbing the overflow.
Set and enforce the definition of done for tests, review, and documentation, and personally perform substantive code reviews that hold junior and senior engineers to the same bar.
Use code review and 1:1s as teaching surfaces, build and work a development plan with every engineer, and grow people toward their next level.
Own the employee lifecycle for your team, from hiring and onboarding through reviews and coaching underperformers early, while building psychological safety without lowering the bar.
Stay in the code: ship production Java each sprint, author design docs for major initiatives, and review front-end changes in HTML, JavaScript, and Angular competently.
Own your team's services in production, including monitoring, alerting, deployments, and incident response, and bake PCI DSS and security requirements into designs early rather than retrofitting them.