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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