Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EY is a global leader in assurance, consulting, tax, and transaction services. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Financial Services Organization to lead technology development for Tax professionals, focusing on hands-on engineering management, team leadership, and modernization of existing applications.
Responsibilities
- Contribute code weekly using agents; hands-on technical execution is a core responsibility of the role, not an optional activity
- Own, version, and continuously improve the domain's agent operating instructions
- Review pull requests and provide timely, actionable technical feedback
- Directly remediate, ship, and manage the team's technical debt backlog rather than solely delegating it
- Route well-bounded tasks to the most effective executor—an agent, an engineer, or yourself
- Leverage agentic SDLC practices to increase throughput on bounded components with well-defined interfaces
- Keep coordination lean and outcome-focused, identifying dependencies and risks early
- Serve as the primary owner of the team's technical direction, architecture decisions, and long-term technical health
- Define and drive the technical roadmap, balancing new feature delivery, modernization initiatives, and technical debt reduction
- Own both the legacy .NET/C# and Angular components and the modern Python/Node/React stack, leading phased modernization while maintaining stability for business-critical systems
- Hire engineers for the team and maintain a high bar for technical talent
- Evaluate and develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and growth planning
- Coach the team to work effectively and responsibly with AI agents
- Uphold engineering principles across the full software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, release, and operations
- Lead the practical adoption of agentic SDLC practices with clear human-in-the-loop quality, testing, security, and governance controls
- Apply documented verification protocols appropriate to each artifact type, including code, tests, documentation, and infrastructure
- Run evaluations prior to merge and retain human-controlled approval and merge authority for production branches
- Maintain strong automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Track and report key engineering metrics, including required reporting to Atlassian Compass
- Facilitate bi-weekly demonstrations from the cloud environment, showcasing both product capabilities and agent-assisted workflows
- Partner closely with the dedicated production support organization, which owns frontline product operations
- Deliver the tooling, automation, and runbooks required to operate and support the product effectively
- Reduce operational toil through automation, including agent-assisted workflows where appropriate
- Maintain an up-to-date inventory of WIZ Critical and Major findings and ensure timely remediation within established SLAs
- Implement explicit guardrails, blast-radius controls, and audit trails for all production-impacting automation
- Keep architecture documentation, architectural decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and agent operating instructions accurate and current
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required (4-year degree) Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics and/or a master's degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field
- Typically, no less than 5 - 7 years relevant experience
- You are required to have one of the following certifications: CPA, EA, JD, Master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, information systems or engineering, Quantitative Economics or Quants
- Exposure to the financial services industry, accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation
- Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and tax systems and process configuration
- An experienced tech lead who has led at least one team, ready to step into hands-on engineering management, including hiring and evaluating engineers, while continuing to build daily
- Strong proficiency in Python / Node / React stack for new development
- Experience maintaining and modernizing existing .NET / C# services and Angular frontends
- Demonstrated hands-on experience applying agentic SDLC in real production delivery workflows
- Proven ownership of the full development loop (build, test, release, operate, and iterate)
- Extensive experience with cloud-native applications on Azure (AWS and GCP experience is also acceptable)
- Hands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
- In-depth knowledge of test automation (unit, integration, e2e)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation, required for full-stack delivery in this role
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make significant technical contributions
- Proven track record of owning technical direction, architecture decisions, and a long-term technical roadmap
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- A genuine appetite for building with a small team and agents, and for continuous learning
- Familiarity with delivery and security tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Suite, SonarQube, Mend, Aqua Trivy, and WIZ
- Experience working in a microfrontends environment is a strong nice to have
- Strong understanding of component life cycles, unit testing, and resolving complex issues in full-stack development
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- A wide range of paid time off options
- Team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
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