Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HTD Talent is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager / Technical Lead to lead a team of full-stack engineers while remaining highly involved in development. This role will involve owning technical direction, contributing code, and driving architecture decisions while helping to modernize the existing environment.
Responsibilities
- Remain hands-on with development and contribute code each week using agent-assisted development workflows
- Lead the technical direction and architecture of the team's applications
- Own the team's technical roadmap across new development, modernization, and technical debt reduction
- Maintain and modernize legacy .NET/C# backend services and Angular frontends
- Lead new development using Python, Node.js, and React
- Drive phased modernization while maintaining stability of business-critical applications
- Own and maintain domain-specific agent operating instructions
- Review pull requests and provide timely technical feedback
- Directly address technical debt, production issues, and engineering improvements
- Determine whether individual development tasks are best handled by an engineer, an agent, or directly by the technical lead
- Implement Agentic SDLC practices to increase development throughput while maintaining quality
- Establish appropriate human-in-the-loop testing, security, and quality controls for agent-assisted development
- Maintain documented verification processes for code, testing, documentation, and infrastructure changes
- Run evaluations prior to merge and maintain human-controlled merges into production branches
- Maintain strong automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Hire engineers and maintain the technical hiring standard for the team
- Evaluate engineers, provide feedback, and support their professional growth
- Coach engineers on effectively incorporating agents into development workflows
- Maintain engineering standards across design, coding, testing, release, and operations
- Track and report engineering metrics, including reporting through Atlassian Compass
- Facilitate bi-weekly live demos from the cloud environment, including demonstrations of agent workflows and new functionality
- Partner with the production support organization and provide tooling, automation, and runbooks to improve application support
- Reduce operational workload through automation and agent-assisted workflows where appropriate
- Track WIZ Critical and Major findings and ensure remediation within required SLAs
- Implement guardrails, blast-radius limitations, and audit trails for production-touching automation
- Maintain current architecture documentation, ADRs, runbooks, and agent instructions
Skills
- 5–7+ years of relevant experience
- Previous experience as a Technical Lead or similar technical leadership role with experience leading at least one engineering team
- Strong desire to remain hands-on with engineering while taking responsibility for team leadership, hiring, and engineer evaluation
- Strong proficiency with Python, Node.js, and React for new application development
- Experience maintaining and modernizing .NET/C# services and Angular applications
- Demonstrated hands-on experience applying Agentic SDLC concepts within real production delivery workflows
- Experience owning the full software development lifecycle including build, test, release, operation, and iteration
- Extensive experience developing cloud-native applications on Azure. AWS or GCP experience is also acceptable
- Hands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
- Strong knowledge of automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Hands-on CI/CD automation experience
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make significant hands-on technical contributions
- Experience owning technical direction, architecture decisions, and long-term technical roadmaps
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively with a small engineering team and AI agents
- Bachelor's degree required. Relevant fields include Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Must have one of the following: CPA, EA, JD, or a Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Quantitative Economics, or a related quantitative field
- Exposure to financial services, accounting, finance, tax, tax technology, finance performance improvement, tax software development, and/or implementation
- Ability to independently own assigned tasks through completion, including requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, systems/process configuration, and related project responsibilities
- Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Experience with the Atlassian suite
- Familiarity with SonarQube, Mend, Aqua Trivy, and WIZ
- Experience working in a micro frontend environment
- Strong understanding of component lifecycles, unit testing, and troubleshooting complex full-stack development issues
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