Engineering Manager / Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for an Engineering Manager / Lead Software Engineer to take on complex and meaningful technical challenges in the public sector, driving digital transformation that directly improves lives at scale.

In this role, you will be responsible for setting technical direction, shaping engineering processes, and ensuring delivery of one or more products owned by your team. You will also play a key role in building an engineering culture that values excellence, collaboration, and long-term impact.

Job Responsibilities:

• Defining your team’s engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Staying on top of industry trends, with strong knowledge of how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained at scale.
• Designing and guiding the implementation of systems across SaaS solutions, leveraging cloud technologies where appropriate.
• Partnering with stakeholders to prioritize and manage product roadmaps, ensuring incremental and effective delivery towards long-term vision.
• Creating and maintaining a technical plan that anticipates future product and infrastructure needs.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers through regular feedback, supporting professional growth and career development.
• Driving adoption of best practices in quality, reliability, performance, and security within your teams.
• Encouraging strong engineering culture and introducing tools/processes that maximize effectiveness and impact.
• Actively identifying and initiating high-value engineering initiatives that contribute to the public good.
• Contributing to recruitment, particularly for senior technical roles.

Job Requirements:

• Proven experience building and operating large, high-availability software systems at scale.
• At least 10 years of development experience, with 5+ years coaching and mentoring engineering teams of 5+ people.
• Experience with modern full-stack application development, spanning contemporary front-end frameworks and scalable backend services across multiple programming languages.
• Hands-on technical expertise across the technology stack, including infrastructure, client-side, backend services, APIs, databases, performance, and data.
• Strong background in end-to-end system development, from user interfaces through backend and integration layers.
• Familiarity with Agile development, modular design, automation, TDD, CI/CD pipelines, pair programming, and infrastructure automation.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure) and container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent understanding of engineering leadership, balancing technical expertise with the soft skills needed to inspire and guide teams.
• Passion for engineering craftsmanship, teamwork, and creating meaningful impact through technology.
• Strong ability to lead teams toward achieving ambitious goals together.