Lead and manage engineering teams, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions through effective execution, team support, and technical leadership. Promote collaboration and adherence to best practices.
Join a dynamic team at the pulse of global markets, where we deliver innovative software and service solutions for essential financial reporting and capital markets transactions. At DFIN, we are a values-driven organization that empowers you to build a fulfilling career while bringing your authentic self to work every day. Our "Win as One" mentality ensures that our team's success is directly linked to Client, Shareholder and Employee Satisfaction.
Recognized as one of AMERICA'S MOST LOVED WORKPLACES® for five consecutive years and a Built In Best Places to Work for six years, we are committed to our employees' total well-being. Enjoy competitive compensation, a flexible workplace, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. Bring your passion and talents to DFIN - because being YOU thrives here.
Summary:
We are looking for a Technical Leaders who wants to deliver the best in-market SaaS solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to grow, innovate and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.
The engineering manager delivers results and is focused on execution by: • Advancing engineering disciplines and technologies. • Being an active participant in all areas of software engineering, operations, and deployments. • Building a team for success that is focused on winning for the firm and the team. • Setting and achieving difficult goals through motivation and execution.
Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & People Management • Lead, coach, and develop one or more cross functional engineering squads (developers, SDETs). • Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance feedback, growth planning, and career development for engineers.
Delivery Execution & Accountability • Own delivery outcomes for assigned teams across sprint and release cycles. • Drive day to day execution: backlog readiness, sprint goals, execution tracking, and unblockings. • Partner with Product Owners to ensure stories are well defined, sequenced, and ready for development.
Technical Leadership & Quality • Ensure teams follow engineering best practices around: Code quality, Testing and automation, Security and compliance requirements, Performance and reliability • Actively review delivery signals (build health, test coverage, defect trends) and course correct as needed. • Encourage pragmatic technical improvements and reduction of technical debt.
Cross Functional Collaboration • Work closely with: Product Management on scope, trade offs, and prioritization, QA and SRE on release quality and operational readiness, Architecture and Security on standards and risk management • Represent the team effectively in cross team forums while protecting engineers from unnecessary context switching.
Continuous Improvement & Engineering Excellence • Drive continuous improvement in team execution, tooling usage, and SDLC practices. • Support adoption of AI assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality. • Identify friction points in development workflows and partner with leadership to address them.
Qualifications:
Required • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years of leading engineering teams. • Proven experience leading agile engineering teams delivering complex, enterprise grade software. • Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, testing strategies, and cloud based systems. • Ability to balance delivery pressure with team health and long term quality. • Excellent communication skills with engineers, product partners, and leadership.
Preferred • Experience working in multi team, scaled agile environments. • Prior exposure to platform modernization, regulated environments. • Background in SaaS, enterprise platforms, or highly available systems.
It is the policy of Donnelley Financial Solutions to select, place, and manage all its employees without discrimination based on race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, actual or perceived disability, veteran status, actual or perceived sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status.
If you are a qualified individual w ith a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access jobs.dfinsolutions.com as a result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to [email protected] .
At DFIN, protecting your identity is a top priority. Please be aware of scammers impersonating DFIN recruiters. DFIN recruiters will never request personal information via email or text. You will only receive a text from us if you've already been in contact. All automated messages will come from [email protected] . If you ever have doubts about the legitimacy of any communication from us, please do not hesitate to reach out for verification via [email protected] (this email is for general TA questions and is not used for updates on your application status). #BI-Remote
Recognized as one of AMERICA'S MOST LOVED WORKPLACES® for five consecutive years and a Built In Best Places to Work for six years, we are committed to our employees' total well-being. Enjoy competitive compensation, a flexible workplace, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. Bring your passion and talents to DFIN - because being YOU thrives here.
Summary:
We are looking for a Technical Leaders who wants to deliver the best in-market SaaS solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to grow, innovate and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.
The engineering manager delivers results and is focused on execution by: • Advancing engineering disciplines and technologies. • Being an active participant in all areas of software engineering, operations, and deployments. • Building a team for success that is focused on winning for the firm and the team. • Setting and achieving difficult goals through motivation and execution.
Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & People Management • Lead, coach, and develop one or more cross functional engineering squads (developers, SDETs). • Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance feedback, growth planning, and career development for engineers.
Delivery Execution & Accountability • Own delivery outcomes for assigned teams across sprint and release cycles. • Drive day to day execution: backlog readiness, sprint goals, execution tracking, and unblockings. • Partner with Product Owners to ensure stories are well defined, sequenced, and ready for development.
Technical Leadership & Quality • Ensure teams follow engineering best practices around: Code quality, Testing and automation, Security and compliance requirements, Performance and reliability • Actively review delivery signals (build health, test coverage, defect trends) and course correct as needed. • Encourage pragmatic technical improvements and reduction of technical debt.
Cross Functional Collaboration • Work closely with: Product Management on scope, trade offs, and prioritization, QA and SRE on release quality and operational readiness, Architecture and Security on standards and risk management • Represent the team effectively in cross team forums while protecting engineers from unnecessary context switching.
Continuous Improvement & Engineering Excellence • Drive continuous improvement in team execution, tooling usage, and SDLC practices. • Support adoption of AI assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality. • Identify friction points in development workflows and partner with leadership to address them.
Qualifications:
Required • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years of leading engineering teams. • Proven experience leading agile engineering teams delivering complex, enterprise grade software. • Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, testing strategies, and cloud based systems. • Ability to balance delivery pressure with team health and long term quality. • Excellent communication skills with engineers, product partners, and leadership.
Preferred • Experience working in multi team, scaled agile environments. • Prior exposure to platform modernization, regulated environments. • Background in SaaS, enterprise platforms, or highly available systems.
It is the policy of Donnelley Financial Solutions to select, place, and manage all its employees without discrimination based on race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, actual or perceived disability, veteran status, actual or perceived sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status.
If you are a qualified individual w ith a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access jobs.dfinsolutions.com as a result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to [email protected] .
At DFIN, protecting your identity is a top priority. Please be aware of scammers impersonating DFIN recruiters. DFIN recruiters will never request personal information via email or text. You will only receive a text from us if you've already been in contact. All automated messages will come from [email protected] . If you ever have doubts about the legitimacy of any communication from us, please do not hesitate to reach out for verification via [email protected] (this email is for general TA questions and is not used for updates on your application status). #BI-Remote
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