Engineering Manager

About the role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead the next generation of our MyCase practice management platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for a manager who can support engineers and delivery at a high level while still contributing technically when needed. Your team will deliver end-to-end customer workflows – from core platform building blocks to polished product experiences – that help firms run their day-to-day operations more efficiently.

About us:

At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

What you'll do:

• Lead and support a team of software engineers building customer-facing features across the stack using modern web technologies such as Next.js, Ruby on Rails, and React.
• Manage engineers through onboarding, coaching, feedback, career development, and performance management.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders to plan work, assess tradeoffs, identify risks, and drive business outcomes.
• Help the team deliver predictably by leading agile team rituals, improving planning, and removing delivery bottlenecks.
• Maintain a strong technical understanding of the team’s systems and architecture in order to guide design decisions, review technical proposals, and support execution.
• Contribute technically through code reviews, architecture discussions, debugging, and hands-on implementation when needed.
• Build and maintain a high-quality engineering environment by reinforcing standards around testing, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Drive improvements to engineering processes, team health, and development workflows to increase effectiveness and scalability.
• Collaborate with UX and Product to help deliver modern web applications with strong usability and customer value.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align priorities, decisions, and execution.
• Contribute to hiring and recruiting efforts to help build a strong engineering organization.
• Drive technical initiatives within the team to expand the MyCase platform with new capabilities and workflows, while maintaining performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Share technical context and engineering judgment with the broader engineering organization to support strong outcomes across teams.

About you:

• Professional experience building and shipping production software in a cross-functional environment.
• Experience managing software engineers.
• Experience leading engineering teams delivering production web applications at scale.
• Strong technical background in modern web application development, with the ability to engage meaningfully in design and code discussions.
• Experience building customer-facing applications using modern web frameworks across frontend and backend systems.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services.
• Solid understanding of software design fundamentals, including testing, maintainability, and common design principles/patterns.
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience working in agile product teams.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience collaborating effectively with distributed teams across time zones.

Nice to haves:

• Experience managing multiple teams or leading larger areas of engineering responsibility.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience in full-stack web development.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and Next.js.
• Experience building scalable SaaS applications.
• Experience improving engineering processes and streamlining development workflows.

Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:

At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. 

Why 8am 

At 8am, our culture is shaped by the people who bring it to life every day. Together, we build a company rooted in continuous learning, genuine community, holistic wellness, and meaningful engagement—values that empower us as individuals and unite us as a team. Our culture is grounded in our core values: Work Smart, Win Fast; Outshine Ordinary, and We Find a Way. These values drive how we serve our customers and work with each other in a collaborative, inspiring, and empowering environment, every day.

Security advisory:

Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology.  As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices.  We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process.  All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person.  All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.