Lead engineering teams building mission-critical K-12 school nutrition software processing 1B+ meal transactions annually. Player/coach role (80% people leadership, 20% technical) driving modernization to .NET Core, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
3+ years managing software engineering teams with track record of shipping production software
Experience managing mixed FTE and contractor teams
Strong technical background with substantial .NET and C# experience shipping real systems
Comfort across Angular and SQL Server or close-adjacent stacks
Experience leading modernization work evolving legacy systems incrementally
Evidence-based management approach familiar with DORA, SPACE, or equivalent frameworks
Production experience working in AWS environments with Lambda, RDS, and cloud-native services
Hands-on user of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted coding environments
Coaching-first instinct defaulting to asking before telling
Direct communicator able to challenge respectfully and write crisp exec updates
Fluent in Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
Lead and grow team of engineers across blended FTE and contractor model
Own delivery outcomes for School Nutrition platform partnering with Product
Shape and execute modernization roadmap toward .NET Core, cloud-native services, and PostgreSQL
Raise hiring bar and own hiring loop for your team
Contribute as technical leader in ADRs, design reviews, and high-stakes code reviews
Drive healthy engineering practices including testing discipline, CI/CD, DORA metrics, and incident response
Enable team to adopt AI-assisted development tooling effectively and responsibly
Cultivate culture where engineers are confident to change code
Communicate clearly in writing on roadmaps, status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions
School Nutrition team builds high-transaction-volume software processing over 1 billion meal transactions annually
Mission-critical infrastructure must work during lunch rush every school day nationwide
Player or coach role leaning firmly toward coach with roughly 80 percent people leadership
Remaining 20 percent spent on architecture reviews, high-stakes code review, pairing, and production incidents
Competitive base salary plus 8 percent annual bonus
Company serves 30 percent of US school districts and over 17 million students
LINQ integrates finance, HR, nutrition management, and payments into single secure platform
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