Senior Technology Manager

About The Company

Communify is the leader in unifying the digital communication of market and client data to provide intelligent insights for investors and investment professionals. Founded on decades of maturity in delivering complex market data to some of the largest firms in financial services, Communify’s platform and Knowledge Bases allow excellent experiences - many of which you may use today.

Communify SaaS-based product suite unifies the communication of market and client data through a library of financial apps, with solutions including Communify Markets Apps, Client Apps, Advisor Apps and AI Apps (MIND). Communify’s Knowledge Base of 4000+ unique data feeds and 500M+ page views per day also powers Communify’s advanced AI capabilities for the next generation of communication, automation and management of financial data.

Our software development team is a group of skilled professionals working collaboratively to design, develop and host high-traffic web and mobile applications for financial, brokerage, and media clients worldwide. Using modern frameworks, we create custom digital experiences that align with client brands.

Leveraging in-house data feeds and service-tier applications, we deliver agile, collaborative, and world-class solutions.

As individuals, we are a diverse group, coming from varied professional backgrounds and perspectives. While some of us start with financial experience, our larger belief is that new ideas come from learning, research, analytical thinking, questioning, and translating what we know into new contexts.

Job Summary

The Senior Technology Manager will own the technical execution and engineering health of one or more cross-functional delivery pods. This role is accountable for engineering quality, pod-level architecture decisions, production readiness, reliability outcomes, and the team’s ability to deliver maintainable software safely and predictably.

Delivery accountability remains important, but it is grounded in engineering execution ownership rather than project coordination.

This role will lead engineers directly, stay close enough to the code and systems to make sound technical trade-offs, and partner with Product Management, Account Management, Architecture, Operations, and adjacent engineering teams to turn committed outcomes into reliable production software.

This position will participate hands-on in software design, technical decomposition, estimation, code review, and delivery risk assessment while coaching engineers, improving engineering practices, and ensuring the pod has the capacity, skills, and clarity needed to execute well.

Key Responsibilities

• Own pod-level technical execution, including technical decomposition, estimation quality, engineering sequencing, and capacity realism for committed work.
• Provide technical leadership for design decisions within pod scope, ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, secure, and aligned with platform and architecture direction.
• Set and enforce code review standards, engineering quality gates, definition of done, and defect prevention practices across the pod.
• Improve CI/CD health, automated test coverage, test strategy, and release validation so the pod can ship confidently and recover quickly when issues occur.
• Own production readiness, including observability, runbooks, rollback strategy, incident response readiness, and clear engineering ownership for supported systems.
• Provide go/no-go recommendations from an engineering risk perspective, clearly communicating quality, reliability, security, and operational trade-offs before release.
• Partner with Project Management and Account Management to support client-facing plans by providing the technical sequencing, risk assessment, and engineering reality behind delivery commitments.
• Manage assigned software engineers and developers, including expectations, goal setting, feedback, performance reviews, coaching, and performance improvement actions where needed.
• Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, career planning, technical coaching, growth assignments, promotion readiness input, and support for sustainable team health.
• Own pod capacity planning and staffing decisions for direct reports, balancing delivery commitments with engineering quality, operational load, and growth needs.
• Lead hiring for engineering roles in the pod, including role scoping, interview quality, calibration, and selection decisions.
• Use engineering and flow metrics such as cycle time, defect escape rate, deployment health, incident frequency, and recovery time to identify improvements and increase predictability.
• Represent the company in client-facing technical discussions by explaining engineering trade-offs, release risks, mitigation options, and technical paths forward.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including technical leadership of modern web applications, distributed systems, or high-traffic production platforms.
• Recent hands-on technical depth within the last 3–5 years through software design, implementation, architecture participation, code review, production support, or comparable technical contribution.5+ years direct experience managing software engineers or developers, including performance management, career development, coaching, hiring, and team health.
• Strong understanding of API design, data model fundamentals, service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical trade-offs in client-facing software delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD practices, automated testing, code quality standards, observability, incident response, rollback planning, and release readiness.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives from discovery and decomposition through implementation, release, and operational ownership in complex environments.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and mitigation options clearly to engineers, PM/AM partners, leadership, and clients.
• Demonstrated success improving measurable engineering outcomes such as cycle time, estimation accuracy, defect escape rate, deployment quality, incident frequency, or mean time to recovery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pod-based, product-based, or value-stream-aligned delivery models.
• Background in regulated or high-reliability environments where stability and quality are critical.
• Familiarity with modern observability, incident response, and operational readiness practices.
• Experience leading teams through delivery model or operating model transformations.
• Demonstrated success driving hiring, onboarding, and retention outcomes in engineering organizations.
• Salary & Benefits

Salary Range

$120k - $160k annualizedEligibility for bonusesPaid holidays and unlimited paid time offEmployer-paid life insuranceEmployer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance401k plan with 100% employer’s match up to 4%