Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LINQ is a high-growth software company focused on empowering K-12 district teams through cloud-based software solutions. As an Engineering Manager for School Nutrition, you will lead engineering teams to build and maintain a platform that processes over 1 billion meal transactions annually, ensuring efficient operations in cafeterias nationwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers across a blended FTE/contractor model - running meaningful 1:1s, writing growth plans, managing performance honestly, and giving direct, kind, actionable feedback
- Own delivery outcomes for the School Nutrition platform - partnering with Product to shape the work, not just receive it, and driving predictable, high-quality execution
- Partner with the Sr. Director of Engineering and your senior engineers to shape and execute the modernization roadmap - evolving the platform toward .NET Core, cloud-native services, and PostgreSQL without destabilizing daily delivery
- Raise the hiring bar and own the hiring loop for your team - sourcing, interview calibration, and closing talent
- Contribute as a technical leader in ADRs, design reviews, and high-stakes code reviews; weigh in on tradeoffs with enough depth that your technical voice genuinely sharpens the work
- Drive healthy engineering practices - testing discipline, CI/CD, DORA/flow metrics, and incident response - using evidence to guide improvement rather than opinion alone
- Enable the team to adopt AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code) effectively and responsibly, modeling the practices yourself
- Cultivate a culture where engineers are confident to change code - when people are afraid to touch something, we move slowly and we break things
- Communicate up, across, and down clearly in writing - roadmaps, status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions
Skills
- 3+ years managing software engineering teams, with a track record of shipping production software at quality
- Experience managing mixed FTE and contractor teams - with a clear sense of where those management approaches converge and diverge
- Strong technical background with substantial .NET / C# experience; you've shipped real systems and are sharp enough to contribute credibly in design and code reviews
- Comfort across Angular and SQL Server (or close-adjacent stacks you can ramp on quickly)
- Experience leading modernization work - evolving legacy systems incrementally without stopping the world
- Evidence-based management approach - familiar with DORA, SPACE, or equivalent frameworks, and honest about their limits
- Production experience working in AWS environments; comfortable reasoning about Lambda, RDS, and common cloud-native services
- Appreciation for the tradeoffs between legacy and cloud-native approaches, and experience guiding teams through the transition
- Hands-on user of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted coding environments
- Able to coach a team on effective, responsible use of AI tooling — and honest about where it works and where it doesn't
- Coaching-first instinct - you default to asking before telling, and help people think clearly rather than thinking for them
- Direct communicator - you can challenge respectfully, escalate clearly, and write a crisp exec update
- Fluent in Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
- Experience in school nutrition, food service, point-of-sale systems, or K-12 EdTech
- Background managing teams that support high-transaction-volume, mission-critical systems (POS, payments, or similar)
- Experience running blended onshore/offshore or FTE/contractor engineering teams at scale
- Experience splitting or merging teams as organizational scope evolves
- Hands-on experience with .NET Core, AWS Lambda, and PostgreSQL (our direction of travel)
- Experience with offline-first or intermittent-connectivity patterns
- Contributions to engineering excellence programs, management communities of practice, or internal leadership development
Benefits
- Work remote from one of our eligible states across the US, or if you’re near Austin three days in office a week!
- Our 401(k) plan comes with a 4% employer match on *total* earnings (not *just* your base salary).
- Whether it’s a company bonus or target sales commission, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.
- Our flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan lets you take the time you need, when you need it.
- Paid Parental Leave: Take the time you need to welcome your new addition – We’ve got you covered!
- Ten Paid Corporate Holidays: Enjoy a little extra downtime to relax and recharge with the ten paid holidays each year.
- 16 paid volunteer hours to support the causes that matter most to you. #LINQCares
- Rock-solid medical, dental and vision coverage. Pick your vibe: a low deductible PPO and pair with an FSA or a HDHP with a sweet HSA – with contributions from LINQ. Dental perks that even cover braces for the kiddos.
- Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance. Gym reimbursements and tons of extra savings on travel assistance, employee assistance, and even pet insurance options.
- Got an amazing candidate in your network? Send them our way and earn a referral bonus when they join the team!
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