Software Development Manager, Payments

MarginEdge Co.; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) matching

Stock Options

Parental Leave

Meal/food perks

Job summary

MarginEdge Co. is seeking a Software Development Manager to scale our payments platform and expand the financial products we offer to restaurant clients. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, ensuring secure, reliable software shipped to customers across the US and Canada.

You will partner with product and design, own the delivery strategy for your team, and coach engineers to grow while driving a high-performance culture and solid architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management or tech lead roles.
• Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams with delivery, quality, and culture.
• Experience building or operating payments/fintech systems (ACH money movement, card issuing, etc.).
• Strong backend/frontend development background (Spring Boot and/or React); comfortable in design reviews and code discussions.
• Experience in product-driven environments with cross-functional collaboration (product, design, QA).
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business goals and make trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey status and risks to stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud-based systems, distributed architectures, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery strategy for your team and facilitate collaboration between product, design, and engineering across payments products.
• Lead and develop your team, fostering a high-performance culture, removing obstacles, and encouraging responsible ownership.
• Ensure accountability for support and operations across payment systems, using data to address recurring pain points and coordinate necessary resources.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions, balancing business needs, security/compliance, and software excellence.

Skills

Leadership & people management

Payments/fintech experience

Spring Boot / React

AWS / cloud

Technical communication

AI coding tools (Claude Code)

Tools

Spring Boot

React

Job description

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to help scale our payments platform and expand the financial products we offer to our restaurant clients. You will be responsible for the delivery, quality, and growth of your team while acting as a key partner to product and design. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping engineers grow and ensuring your team ships secure, reliable software that thousands of restaurants rely on to pay their vendors and manage their spend across the US and Canada.

MarginEdge: Where hospitality meets technology

As a team built by former (and current!) restaurant operators, our mission is to bring operators the same energy, attention to detail, and passion that they bring to their guests. Our culture is deeply rooted in service, partially because that’s where so many of our team come from (including everyone on our Business Development team), but also because we believe it is just the right way to run a business. We design our software with profound empathy for the complexity of running a restaurant, and the goal of making the magic just a little easier for operators by taking the complex (read: very annoying) back office tasks off their plate, while empowering them with real-time data.

Our founders share a deep history in both owning and operating restaurants and in building successful tech companies. We are venture-backed and serve 12,000+ restaurants across the US and Canada.

We enable restaurants to make magic while knowing we are doing the same for them.

We have the utmost respect for our clients and because of this, we are unable to hire their current employees.

What type of responsibilities will I have?

• Own the delivery strategy for your team and serve as the primary facilitator between product, design, and engineering across our payments products. You will fill gaps where your team needs them, whether that's clarifying requirements, pressure-testing designs, or rolling up your sleeves and contributing directly when it matters.
• Lead and develop your team by fostering a high-performance culture, removing obstacles, and continuously optimizing how your team works. You'll coach engineers on using AI to accelerate their output, helping them apply it thoughtfully for code generation, debugging, and testing, while holding the bar high on quality, ownership, and technical judgment.
• Ensure accountability for support and operations across the payment systems your team owns, where accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable because real money is moving. You'll stay closely connected to customer feedback, payment issues, and our banking and card partners, use operational data to surface recurring pain points, and advocate for the time and resources needed to address them.
• Contribute to the technical strategy and architectural decisions for your team, helping engineers make solid trade-offs between business needs, security and compliance requirements, and software development excellence. You'll drive clarity through ambiguity and ensure your team has the context they need to make confident decisions.

What qualifications or skills are required?

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead role.
• Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams, with a focus on delivery, quality, and culture.
• Experience building or operating payments or fintech systems, such as ACH money movement, card issuing, or virtual card programs.
• Strong software development background with experience in a backend framework like Spring Boot and/or JavaScript (React); comfortable engaging in technical discussions and code reviews.
• Experience working in a product-driven environment with cross-functional collaboration across product, design, and QA.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business objectives and manage trade-offs effectively.
• Strong communication skills: able to clearly convey project status, risks, and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud-based systems, distributed architectures, and AWS infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code to accelerate software development.

Nice To Haves

• Background in restaurant technology or hospitality industry software.
• Experience in a fast-growing SaaS or fintech startup environment.
• Familiarity with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience integrating with banking-as-a-service, card issuing, or payment processor partners.
• Familiarity with payments compliance and risk, such as NACHA rules, PCI DSS, KYB/KYC, and reconciliation.

Compensation:

The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000–$200,000 annually. Where a candidate falls within that range depends on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus opportunities and our comprehensive benefits package.

What’s it like to work for MarginEdge?

Imagine the fun of a great restaurant - surrounded by a team of people (including some that you help to manage!) who care about hospitality, care about quality, and care about each other - then subtract the long nights, weekends, drunk customers at the bar...et voila, MarginEdge!

We work hard, we work fast and we fuel our work with a commitment of transparency from leadership, straight talk and trust between teams. We believe that the best people do their best work when they feel empowered - so whether you are remote or in our office (likely eating a catered lunch from our clients in our baller, brand new penthouse HQ in Ballston) you get to work with your manager to call your shot on what works best for you. Did we mention it has a full commercial kitchen and is walking distance (covered walking, that is) from the metro?

Benefits (Shut The Front Door, They Are Amazing)

In order to fuel this rocket ship, we need to build a team as passionate about our work and product as we are. We believe that top talent (that’s you!) should feel deeply connected to their work, appreciated for the time they give to building our organization and have the balance necessary to give their best during work hours and all those after-hours too. We do this by offering a suite of kick ass benefits not only to be competitive and catch the eye of super smart people (that’s you again!) but also provide the foundation for a career you love and a life outside of work you love just as much.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (and we mean it, we encourage your healthy work life balance!)
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short/Long-Term Disability Insurance (preventative care for the win)
• Health Savings Account with employer match (dependent upon your medical plan selection)
• Commuter benefits with employer contribution (excluding limos and helos - for now)
• Generous Life Insurance Plan
• Short- and Long-term Disability
• Company-Paid Holidays
• 401(k) and matching
• Stock Options to buy into everything we are doing to support this industry
• 12-week fully Paid Parental Leave
• Lunch catered twice a week at our HQ in Arlington (we exclusively cater from our clients, too!
• A wellness program that sponsors healthy activities such as step challenges and provides discounts to gyms and fitness classes.

Check out our 100% “Recommend to a Friend” rating from anonymous employee reviews on Glassdoor.

Oh, and our recognition in the Washington Post as a top small businesses to work for in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025!

And most important, what our customers think about our work on Capterra and G2 Crowd.

Our Fine Print is Bold:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, marital, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. You be you. While we are proudest of our commitment to exceptional culture and creating a truly excellent work environment, we see our benefits as an extension of that belief. Our benefits package is designed to be exceptionally competitive and a reflection of our commitment to a best-in-class workplace for all.

As a team built by former (and current!) restaurant operators, our goal to bring our clients the same energy, attention to detail and passion that they give their guests. Our culture is deeply rooted in service—partially because that’s where we came from but also because we believe it's the right way to run a business. We design our software with profound empathy for the complexity of running a restaurant.

Our dream is to make the magic just a little easier for operators and their teams. We believe in crazy things like knowing how much waste your kitchen is producing and what your total spend is during the period. Solving these kinds of problems is really freaking hard to do, which is why we develop cutting-edge technology that answers these questions with data science.