Software Engineering Manager
AI summary of the role
DebtBook seeks a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead full-stack engineers building a Ruby on Rails/React/PostgreSQL treasury platform for the public sector.
What you’ll do
- Ramp as an IC for first 90 days, shipping code and leading projects before taking on a team
- Stay hands-on to model good work, spot problems, and ship alongside the team when needed
- Remove blockers, improve processes, and drive better outcomes for the team
- Coach engineers to lead planning, breakdown, and execution; give direct feedback
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience coaching and delegating to achieve results through teammates
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and SQL
- Experience with front-end, back-end, and databases
Technologies
Ruby on Rails · React · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · AWS · GitLab · MUI React · feature flags · AI-assisted development
About DebtBook
Cloud software helping government, higher education, and healthcare finance teams manage debt, cash, investments, leases, subscriptions, and contracts.
Series A · 100–200 people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
Engineers collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and subject matter experts. Engineering Managers aren't tied to particular products here. They manage engineers who are working on many different projects. Managers coach engineers to lead planning, breakdown, and execution on projects. Leaders don't do all the work, they do enough to know how to do it well, then they coach and delegate. Engineers lead projects before they are Senior. We don't expect perfect execution; we expect willingness to try new things and improvement over time. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Ramp up as an IC for your first 90 days. You'll ship code and be a technical lead on projects before taking on a team. This crash course is how you build the context to manage well here. Stay hands-on so you can model good work, spot real problems, and ship alongside them when an extra hand is needed. Identify and
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WHO WE ARE: DebtBook is the financial platform powering treasury and capital markets across the public sector. State and local governments, public universities, health systems, and the bankers and advisors who serve them run trillions of dollars in debt, cash, and investments on DebtBook. We've built the most sophisticated treasury platform in public finance — sitting at the intersection of treasury management and a $4 trillion fixed income market that's been waiting for modern infrastructure. HOW WE WORK: We have a Majestic Monolith of Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL. It is hosted in AWS, and we use GitLab for pipelines and deployments. We use feature flags to allow us to continually integrate our code. We have a Ruby on Rails JSON API with a Single Page App using React, TypeScript, and MUI React. Our engineers are full-stack. We have a small dedicated infrastructure team. Engineers collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and subject matter experts. Engineering Managers aren't tied to particular products here. They manage engineers who are working on many different projects. Managers coach engineers to lead planning, breakdown, and execution on projects. Leaders don't do all the work, they do enough to know how to do it well, then they coach and delegate. Engineers lead projects before they are Senior. We don't expect perfect execution; we expec [... source excerpt omitted ...] ure along the journey. OWN Your Outcomes We hold ourselves accountable for exceptional effort, execution, reliability, professionalism, and results that add tremendous value for customers. We are all individual contributors, responsible for delivering value to our customers, team, and company with every action we take. As managers, we lead by example in both what we do and how we do it, and stay personally familiar with the work as we coach our teams. We follow through on our decisions and commitments with action. ABOVE & Beyond We create moments of magic, surprising and delighting our customers at every touchpoint. We run towards problems and enthusiastically jump in to [... source excerpt omitted ...] tunity Employer. We value diversity and prohibit discrimination and unlawful harassment in the workplace. All applicants will receive consideration for employment based upon their qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, National Guard or veteran status, disability, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law. We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities to contact our team for assistance during the application and hiring process. We are committed to expanding accessibility and mak
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