Engineering Manager - Hospitality

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. 

Our Hospitality group is focused on building world-class restaurant point of sale solutions. We strive to reduce the coordination and complexity of running a full or quick service restaurant. You will work on building and supporting high availability, real time systems that are the secret sauce to providing a competitive edge to our customer base. 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

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 Hospitality, you will help teams deliver systems that are critical to restaurant operations, including payment transitions through to order fulfillment.

Responsibilities: 

• Keep your teams focused and engaged
• Maintain a regular release cadence and product backlog
• Uphold a standard of timely and lossless communication
• Build the trust of the individual contributors on your teams
• Work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments
• Coach and mentor team members
• Cautiously 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

Qualifications: 

Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every box on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and if this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills
• 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
• 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.

Hospitality Tech Stack

• MongoDb
• Golang
• MySQL
• Javascript / React/Typescript
• PHP
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Compensation:

• Our base pay range is $147,000 -$239,000 for this role
• Please note the salary range listed is just one component of a competitive compensation package which includes a company stock plan
• Offers will be reflective of the candidate’s location and experience.

Benefits:  

At SpotOn, we put people above everything else. We’re known for our innovative software and technology solutions, but we stand out because of the hard-working humans behind the tech. We can’t take care of our clients without taking care of our employees first, and that’s why we invest in you with a competitive benefits package which includes:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with company match
• RSUs
• Paid vacation, 10 company holidays, sick time, and volunteer time off
• Employee Resource Groups to build community and inclusion at work
• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
• Tuition reimbursement for up to $2,000 per calendar year to assist with your professional development

The base salary range listed will vary depending on location and experience.

SpotOn is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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