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MeridianLink

Manager, Software Engineering

MeridianLink·about 2 months ago

⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $138,667 – $236,400🇺🇸 USA📅 Aug 11, 2026

Position Summary

The Manager, Software Engineering is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for guiding a cross-functional engineering team while remaining actively involved in software delivery. This role focuses on engineering execution, technical mentorship, delivery consistency, and modernization initiatives.

What You'll Do

· Lead technical execution for an agile engineering team

· Remain actively involved in architecture and hands-on coding

· Mentor engineers and improve delivery practices

· Provide day-to-day technical leadership and coordination for an agile engineering team

· Partner with Product and QA on roadmap execution

· Improve operational reliability and engineering standards

Required Qualifications

· 7+ years of software engineering experience in C#/.Net and modern UI frameworks (React.js)

· Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers

· Experience with AI development tools and methodologies

· Strong backend, frontend, and cloud engineering experience

· Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms

· Strong collaboration and communication skills

Why This Role Is Interesting

We value engineers who enjoy building, improving, and simplifying systems. This role provides the opportunity to work across product, platform, and engineering initiatives that directly influence customer experience and business outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role is measured through technical contribution, collaboration, engineering quality, operational reliability, and the ability to positively influence team effectiveness and software delivery outcomes.

Market context

Measured from remote postings we have tracked ourselves — not self-reported survey data.

What Lead / Principal Engineering roles in US Only pay

25th
$153k
Median
$185k
75th
$214k

Based on 1,039 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.

How MeridianLink is hiring

Last 90 days
37 roles
Total tracked
110
Hiring across
12 job families

Tracked since October 2025.

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