Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager, Engagements to Payments

Engagements to Payments (E2P) looks after how accounting firms get paid. That covers the whole journey: proposals and engagement letters, time and budgets, invoicing, online payments, collections, and syncing with accounting systems like Xero and QuickBooks Online. This part of Karbon touches our customers’ revenue,...

Our vision: “Manage long term, profitable client relationships while automating work creation, invoicing and payments.”

You’ll lead a team of 8 frontend and backend engineers and report to our VP of Engineering. This isn’t a hands-on coding role, but you’ll need a strong technical background to guide design decisions, weigh up trade-offs and earn the team’s trust.
Hire, onboard and grow the team, with clear expectations and regular feedback.
Raise the bar on technical quality: clear boundaries, sound designs and high operational standards.
Improve delivery speed and quality by reducing lead time and change failure rate, with customers front and centre.
Own reliability with the team: SLOs, observability, system health and blameless incident reviews.
Work with Product and Tech Leads to plan and deliver, balancing new features, improvements, bugs and maintenance.
Give the team autonomy with clear goals and accountability, and build strong relationships with other teams.
Frontend: React and TypeScript (migrating from Ember)
Backend: .NET (C#, .NET Core, Web API) with SQL Server
Distributed systems: Messaging, event-driven architecture and consistency

A background as a Senior or above IC before moving into management.
2+ years as an Engineering Manager.
A track record of improving quality and speed through technical and process change.
A strong understanding of distributed systems and data integrity.
Clear communication across locations and time zones.
Billing or payments experience.
Experience moving a team toward Continuous Delivery.
Experience leading large technical migrations.