At SpotOn, we’re helping restaurants and small businesses compete and win with flexible payment and software technology—backed by real people who really care. From seamless point-of-sale systems to integrated restaurant management solutions, every SpotOn tool is designed to help local businesses increase profits and create better experiences for their customers and employees.

Recently, SpotOn was:

• Named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024
• Awarded Great Places to Work and Built In’s Best Workplaces for the third year in a row
• Selected as the Best Overall Restaurant POS by NerdWallet
• Rated the top-rated point-of-sale (POS) for restaurants, bars, retail, and small businesses by Capterra users

We’re committed to caring hard and moving fast so that we can continue to grow and make a positive impact together.
That’s where you come in.

LOOKING FOR THIS PERSON TO SIT IN CHICAGO

Our Core Services Platform group is focused on building world-class point-of-sale and payments software infrastructure. You will work on building and supporting scalable APIs and event-driven systems to support product lifecycle and merchant operations. As an Engineering Manager, you are a leader who can drive teams to their optimal output while cultivating a strong team culture and ensuring the growth of each and every member of your squad. Specifically, we are looking for an Engineering Manager who can:

• Provide oversight and leadership on technical direction
• Lead with empathy
• Collaborate well with others
• Can play the role of “hands-on” technical contributor when necessary

Whether it’s working directly with developers on their architecture, doing people management, or influencing broader leadership decisions, you are able to keep an eye on our North Star and guide everyone toward those goals. We are solving problems of scale in a rapidly changing environment to help small businesses compete and win.
As an Engineering Manager in Core Services you will help teams deliver systems that are critical to the operations of our business, from the start of the sales pipeline through day-to-day operations of our merchants.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills (including project management and expectation setting)
• Experience recruiting for and building software engineering teams
• The ability to inspire and motivate team members
• A strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, and experience with modern programming languages and frameworks
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous, distributed, event-driven architectures
• 8+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of experience managing software teams (as a Team Lead or a Manager) or similar experience as an individual contributor.

• Keep your teams focused and engaged on the mission
• Maintain a rapid release cadence and informative/useful product backlog
• Uphold a standard of timely and lossless communication
• Build the trust of the individual contributors on your teams
• Work with leaders across, Product, Engineering, Operations.
• Aggressively engage in performance management including coach and mentor team members
• Effectively drive adoption of new technologies and processes
• Preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability
• “See around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams
• Work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery
• Own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products