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    Platform Engineering Manager - Kansas City, United States - PayIt

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    PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions.

    Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges.

    This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017.

    PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.
    Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call

    "PayIt DNA":

    High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation.


    We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve.

    We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients.

    And we have a lot of fun together.

    About This Role:
    We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team.

    The Platform Engineering team plays a crucial role in designing, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure and platforms that power our products and services.

    Engineering Managers at PayIt are smart, mission-driven, and afforded a high degree of responsibility and autonomy.

    We hold ourselves to high standards, always looking to improve our skills, our platform, and our offering to our clients.

    We are driven by the fact that we're building a meaningful product and solving exciting technical challenges that impact the lives of everyday people like you and me.

    Engineering Managers are expected to lead teams to meet commitments, grow individuals in their careers, and be highly collaborative with adjacent product, design, and client-facing teams.

    This role is ideally based out of our Kansas City office; however, highly qualified remote candidates in AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MI, MO, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WIwill also be considered.


    What You'll Be Doing:
    Build and maintain 1-2 teams of 3-5 high-performing engineers.
    Set goals with and provide regular, constructive feedback to individuals and the team.
    Collaboratively set the team's quarterly commitments and provide updates to leadership on execution progress, risks, and timeline.
    Guide team in triage and resolution of production issues with careful assessment of impact on infrastructure or service operations.
    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
    Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers within the engineering organization.
    Work closely with engineering leaders and stakeholders to help define technical roadmaps
    Champion a customer-centric approach to DevOps, ensuring internal engineering teams receive robust and efficient solutions.

    Help teams adopt a shared responsibility model for infrastructure, and engender an SRE mindset on the current Platform Engineering team.


    What You'll Need To Have:
    5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
    Strong technical background in platform engineering, including experience with AWS services (Azure experience is a plus).
    Strong understanding of best practices and industry standards for performance, encryption, security, scalability, and availability in distributed systems.
    Experience with programming and scripting languages; Java, and/or Python preferred.

    Interest in determining and applying appropriate technical designs to solve the needs for the customers of the platform engineering team.

    Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices.
    Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
    Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

    Bonus Points For:
    A proven history of managing successful, autonomous development teams.
    Experience managing remote software engineering teams.
    Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Serverless Framework.
    Experience working with Javascript/Typescript
    Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
    Familiarity with OpenTelemetry is a plus.
    Experience with Mulesoft and/or Apache NiFi
    Experience building reliable systems that handle large transactional volume.

    Annual Salary Range:
    $140,000—$180,000 USD


    Why Work For Us:
    Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
    You'll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you'll grow a ton working at PayIt
    People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
    We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
    Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.

    What We Care About:


    We hire high aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.

    Commitment to Equal Opportunity
    PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.


    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.

    PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

    If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.


    NOTE:
    U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click

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    .

    Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.

    To all recruitment agencies:
    PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers' alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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