Manager Software Engineer
About the Company
Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is to build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.
We celebrate our employees through initiatives like the “Circle of Awesomeness” award ceremony and invest in their growth via learning opportunities, mentorship programs, internal mobility, and leadership relationships. We foster collaboration and fun through events like our annual Dodgeball for Charity at Q2 Stadium in Austin.
About the Role
Q2 is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Software Delivery team, responsible for the platforms, automation, and insights that enable software delivery across our engineering organization. In this role, you'll lead a team of full-stack engineers advancing release orchestration, release intelligence, and engineering workflow automation.
You will partner closely with Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Development teams to improve how software is planned, coordinated, and delivered at enterprise scale. Success requires balancing operational excellence with long-term product and platform evolution while influencing stakeholders across multiple engineering organizations.
This is an opportunity to shape the future of Software Delivery at Q2 by building products that engineers rely on daily and defining how software delivery evolves across one of the industry's leading fintech platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; own hiring, coaching, career development, and execution against strategic and operational outcomes.
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery of Q2's Software Delivery platforms, including release orchestration, release visibility, and engineering workflow capabilities; define strategic direction and prioritize investments.
- Partner across Product, Architecture, Development, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to coordinate dependencies, remove delivery roadblocks, manage risk, and drive alignment for predictable, low-friction software delivery.
- Ensure reliable execution of client software updates through mature automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement while creating capacity for strategic platform investments.
- Build and evolve scalable systems that provide actionable release intelligence, operational visibility, and engineering insights to improve decision-making.
- Lead the evolution of software delivery practices through progressive delivery, engineering self-service, workflow automation, and other innovations that improve productivity and customer experience.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 6 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 4+ years of experience.
- Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing engineering teams.
- Deep systems thinking—ability to design and reason about complex, interconnected platforms and tooling.
- Track record translating complexity into clear technical direction and measurable outcomes.
- Product thinking: balances technical excellence with business impact.
- Experience building or operating software delivery platforms, release orchestration, or developer self-service tooling (preferred).
- Enterprise-scale deployment and system reliability experience (preferred).
- Comfortable in ambiguous, high-growth environments; able to translate complexity into clear team direction and measurable outcomes.
- Fluent written and oral communication in English.
- Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. (no Visa sponsorship available at this time).
Benefits
- Hybrid work opportunities.
- Flexible time off.
- Career development and mentoring programs.
- Competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents.
- Community volunteering and company philanthropy programs (e.g., Spark Program).
- Employee peer recognition programs (“You Earned It”).
- Resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being.