Engineering Manager - Storefront
Job description
Finalsite is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its storefront engineering team, which builds and runs the district payments and online store platform. The role is a foundational people-leadership hire to carry the platform's .NET modernization forward and scale it for significantly more payments traffic.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · LatAm
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the storefront engineering team, hiring and developing engineers as it scales
- Own the team's delivery: sequence modernization work alongside the platform's scaling roadmap
- Partner closely with the team's senior technical owners on architecture and solution decisions
- Drive resolution of the platform's current production-scale and reliability issues as part of the modernization effort
- Scale the platform to reliably support significantly more payments traffic
- Bring process and decisiveness to a team that has had strong ICs but lacked consistent leadership
- Hold regular 1:1s, give direct feedback, and build the team's day-to-day operating rhythm
- Use AI-assisted development tools as part of how the team carries the modernization forward
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of overall experience (8+ years hands-on technical, 1+ years as a people manager with 3+ direct reports); prior experience as an Engineering Manager, not someone stepping into people management for the first time, on a production, revenue-critical platform
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- A track record of turning strong individual contributors into a functioning, decisive team
- Comfort managing a remote team operating primarily within US business hours
- Experience modernizing a VM-based .NET system toward a cloud-native architecture
- Experience scaling a production system to handle significantly higher transaction or traffic volume
- Strong technical credibility: you can read the codebase directly, reason about backend architecture and system design trade-offs, and make or validate technical calls, not just review status
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals with a .NET / SQL Server-based stack, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in one
- Working knowledge of relational database design and operations (SQL Server): schema design, query-performance tuning, and locking behavior at production scale
- Familiarity with running and debugging a production service in a cloud environment (Azure preferred)
- Demonstrated expertise in at least one programming language, ideally .NET, Java, or Python
- Experience with at least one observability platform (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, or comparable)
- Deep experience with automated testing frameworks
- Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or comparable AI-assisted development tools
Nice to have
- Experience with .NET or Java specifically
- Deep experience with Azure
- Hands-on PCI compliance experience: familiarity with PCI-DSS requirements as they apply to the storefront's payments workflows
- Experience in payments or fintech specifically, particularly platforms handling high transaction volume
- Prior experience on a modernization, scaling, or migration effort for a legacy .NET system
Your team
Storefront engineering team
Team behind Finalsite's storefront platform, the system districts use to collect fees, run online stores, and manage school payments at scale; mid-modernization on a VM-based .NET stack with strong technical talent but previously lacking a dedicated people leader.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Collaborative culture built on partnership and purpose
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About Finalsite
The most valued partner for K–12 schools to build trust, strengthen community, and grow enrollment
Finalsite supports more than 7,000 schools and districts worldwide with an integrated platform for websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services. Headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Finalsite is a global company with employees working remotely across nearly every U.S. state, as well as throughout Europe, South America, and Asia.
Key facts
- Glastonbury, Connecticut
- EdTech
- Ranked among the best EdTech Companies in America
- Supports more than 7,000 schools and districts worldwide
- Employees work remotely across nearly every U.S. state, as well as throughout Europe, South America, and Asia
What they value
- Partnership
- Purpose