Engineering Manager: Feature Team

About the Role

As a hands‑on Engineering Manager of one of our feature teams at Ledgy, you’ll lead the engineers who build the features that help companies offer, manage, and communicate compensation and savings vehicles: from equity plans to pensions, carry, and beyond. Your team works on the products employees and companies use to make sense of complex compensation structures.

This is a good fit if you find it meaningful to work on features that are financially significant to the people using them, as getting compensation right matters. The work is domain‑rich: these structures are complex, high‑stakes, and varied. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and play a key role in expanding Ledgy’s product coverage as companies increasingly look to offer diverse forms of compensation.

• Have 2+ years in Engineering Management and 6+ years as a Software Engineer, with meaningful time in product‑focused or domain‑heavy roles
• Are energised by features that have a direct, visible impact on end users — the things employees actually see and interact with
• Care deeply about correctness in domains where getting things wrong has real financial consequences
• Are comfortable with evolving scope — compensation takes many forms, and the product will grow to reflect that
• Actively use AI tools to multiply your output and are excited to help your team do the same — you see AI as a core part of how great engineering gets done today
• Love developing people and creating an environment where engineers can do their best work
• Want to stay hands‑on — you’re comfortable diving into the codebase, reviewing PRs with concrete feedback, and shipping yourself

• Team Leadership: Setting technical direction for the team, running 1:1s and performance conversations, and supporting engineers in their growth.
• AI‑Augmented Engineering: Modelling and promoting effective use of AI tools across your team — from coding assistants to automated workflows. You’ll help engineers develop good instincts for where AI accelerates work and where human judgment matters most.
• Compensation & Savings Features: The product surface covering a range of compensation and savings vehicles — equity plans, pensions, carry, and more. Your team builds the logic and UX that makes these products usable for both companies and their employees.
• Employee‑Facing
  
  Experience:
  
  Ensuring the features your team builds are not just correct, but clear and accessible to employees navigating complex compensation structures.
• Domain Breadth: As Ledgy expands into new compensation types, your team will be at the frontier, building the models and product experiences that bring them to life.

• Language: Type Script
• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC
• Backend: tRPC, Node.js, Mongo
  
  DB, Temporal
• Infrastructure: Docker, Git Hub Actions, GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes

• Build relationships with your direct reports and develop a solid understanding of the compensation domain, including what we support today and where we’re headed
• Get hands‑on with the codebase — review PRs and understand how the product models compensation and plan logic
• Meet PD leadership: CTO, Head of Engineering, Head of Product, and the other EMs
• Understand how your team’s domain intersects with the rest of the platform

• Own the team’s delivery rhythm: roadmap reviews, sprint health, and unblocking engineers
• Identify and begin addressing the most complex or fragile areas of the domain
• Establish regular 1:1s and begin meaningful coaching conversations with your reports
• Partner with PM and Design on the roadmap for expanding compensation coverage

• Be recognised as the technical leader for compensation and savings features at Ledgy
• Deliver measurable improvements to product quality, coverage, or the employee experience
• Lead performance reviews and meaningful career development conversations
• Be a trusted partner to product and engineering leadership on compensation strategy