Software Engineering Manager

Visitly is a market leader in visitor management solutions, helping organizations digitize visitor check-ins, improve workplace security, and deliver a modern visitor experience. Our platform supports enterprise-grade workflows, deep integrations, and high reliability at scale.

Were hiring an early-career Engineering Manager (or Tech Lead ready to step into management ) to lead a small team and own delivery for a key product area.

What youll do

• Lead a small engineering team to deliver features from concept production with strong quality and reliability
• Own end-to-end execution across architecture, development, QA/testing, DevOps, security practices, releases, and production support
• Build and evolve scalable backend systems using Java and modern architecture patterns (CQRS, event-driven architecture, microservices )
• Work with distributed messaging and streaming using Kafka
• Build customer-facing web experiences using React
• Operate services in production: monitoring, alerting, debugging, incident response, and postmortems
• Partner closely with Product on roadmap execution and trade-offs
• Collaborate with Sales on technical inputs for enterprise needs and readiness
• Work with Customer Success to reduce escalations, improve rollout success, and drive customer outcomes

What were looking for

• 25 years of experience building production-grade software (B2B SaaS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Java (Spring Boot preferred) and building APIs/services
• Working experience with AWS (e.g., EC2/ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAMany combination)
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience with Kafka (producers/consumers, topics, partitions, at-least-once processing basics)
• Frontend experience with React (and modern JS/TS tooling)
• Solid testing mindset: unit/integration tests, automation, release readiness
• Practical security awareness: auth, data protection, OWASP basics, secure coding
• Strong ownership and communication able to lead execution and collaborate across teams
  

Nice to have

• Observability tools and practices (logs/metrics/traces, SLO thinking)
• Exposure to CQRS and/or event-driven architecture concepts in real systems
• Enterprise features like SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC, audit logs , or compliance exposure (SOC2/ISO basics)
  

Why Visitly

• High ownership + fast growth environment
• Work on enterprise-grade security, reliability, and integrations
• Opportunity to grow into broader leadership as the team scales