Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ortho2 is an orthodontic practice management software company seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a software development team. The role combines people management with hands-on technical work, including architecture discussions, code reviews, deployment, engineering practice improvement, hiring, and delivery management across legacy and modern cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow the development team: 1:1s, growth plans, performance management, and hiring
- Stay hands-on: participate in architecture discussions, review code, and occasionally deploy
- Own team capability: honestly assess skills against where our platform is heading, invest heavily in developing people, and make the hard calls when investment isn’t working, including hiring the engineers the platform needs
- Champion modern engineering practice: strong review culture, a real quality bar, and AI-assisted development as a first-class part of how the team works
- Keep delivery healthy with lightweight, adaptive process; fit the process to the team and the moment, not the other way around
- Occasionally represent engineering in technical conversations with vendors and enterprise customers
Skills
- 8+ years building software, with meaningful depth in .NET and React a plus. Recent enough hands-on work to earn the respect of senior engineers in a code review
- 3+ years managing software engineers, including real hiring and performance-management outcomes
- A track record of raising a team's productivity bar. Coaching people to new skill levels, and when necessary, managing people out with honesty and dignity
- Comfort operating without a playbook: adapting process, priorities, and your own role as needs change
- Fluency with AI-assisted development and what it changes about how teams work
- We don't require specific degrees, certifications, or agile credentials
- Modernizing a long-lived product while it stayed in production
- Multi-tenant B2B SaaS experience
- Leading a team's adoption of AI development tooling
- Experience partnering closely with UI/UX designers
- WPF or desktop application background
Benefits
- A flexible work arrangement: fully remote or in-person/hybrid based out of the Ames, IA office.
- Opportunity for bonuses.
- Health benefits package (medical, dental, vision).
- Life and disability coverage.
- EAP services.
- 401k with company match.
- PTO and volunteer time off.
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