Manager, Engineering

About the team

Our School Nutrition team builds high-transaction-volume software that processes over 1 billion meal transactions annually across thousands of school districts. This is mission-critical infrastructure — it must work during the lunch rush, every school day, in cafeterias nationwide.

About the position

As an Engineering Manager for School Nutrition, you will lead the engineering team(s) building the platform that processes over 1 billion meal transactions annually across thousands of school districts. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ship mission-critical software — the kind that has to work during the lunch rush, every school day, in cafeterias nationwide.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and grow a team of engineers across a blended FTE/contractor model
• Running meaningful 1:1s, writing growth plans, managing performance honestly, and giving direct, kind, actionable feedback
• Own delivery outcomes for the School Nutrition platform - partnering with Product to shape the work, not just receive it, and driving predictable, high-quality execution
• Partner with the Sr. Director of Engineering and your senior engineers to shape and execute the modernization roadmap - evolving the platform toward .NET Core, cloud-native services, and PostgreSQL without destabilizing daily delivery
• Raise the hiring bar and own the hiring loop for your team - sourcing, interview calibration, and closing talent
• Contribute as a technical leader in ADRs, design reviews, and high-stakes code reviews; weigh in on tradeoffs with enough depth that your technical voice genuinely sharpens the work
• Drive healthy engineering practices - testing discipline, CI/CD, DORA/flow metrics, and incident response - using evidence to guide improvement rather than opinion alone
• Enable the team to adopt AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code) effectively and responsibly, modeling the practices yourself
• Cultivate a culture where engineers are confident to change code - when people are afraid to touch something, we move slowly and we break things
• Communicate up, across, and down clearly in writing - roadmaps, status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions

What we are looking for

• Core Experience
• AWS & Cloud Architecture
• AI-Assisted Development

What will make you stand out

• Experience in school nutrition, food service, point-of-sale systems, or K-12 EdTech
• Background managing teams that support high-transaction-volume, mission-critical systems (POS, payments, or similar)
• Experience running blended onshore/offshore or FTE/contractor engineering teams at scale
• Experience splitting or merging teams as organizational scope evolves
• Hands-on experience with .NET Core, AWS Lambda, and PostgreSQL (our direction of travel)
• Experience with offline-first or intermittent-connectivity patterns
• Contributions to engineering excellence programs, management communities of practice, or internal leadership development

Pay

A competitive base salary of $130,000 - $150,000 + 8% annual bonus.

Benefits

• Flex Your Workspace: Work remote from one of our eligible states across the US, or if you’re near Austin three days in office a week!
• Planning Your Future: Our 401(k) plan comes with a 4% employer match on total earnings (not just your base salary).
• Performance Pays Off: Whether it’s a company bonus or target sales commission, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.
• Vacation Your Way: Our flexible Open Paid Time Off Plan lets you take the time you need, when you need it.
• Parental Leave: Take the time you need to welcome your new addition – We’ve got you covered!
• Corporate Holidays: Enjoy a little extra downtime to relax and recharge with the ten paid holidays each year.
• Volunteer Hours: Feel good while doing good – 16 paid volunteer hours to support the causes that matter most to you. #LINQCares
• Healthcare: Rock-solid medical, dental and vision coverage. Pick your vibe: a low deductible PPO and pair with an FSA or a HDHP with a sweet HSA – with contributions from LINQ. Dental perks that even cover braces for the kiddos.
• Wellness Perks: Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance. Gym reimbursements and tons of extra savings on travel assistance, employee assistance, and even pet insurance options.
• Referral Bonus: Got an amazing candidate in your network? Send them our way and earn a referral bonus when they join the team!

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding employment practices.