Engineering Manager | Frontend

About the role:

At 8am, we’re building the next generation of SaaS products that power how professionals work, from payments to client experience, and everything in between. As part of our Engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing and scaling the technology behind a platform trusted by hundreds of thousands of users nationwide. This is a rare opportunity to work at an innovative, growth-stage tech company where your ideas directly shape the product, the architecture, and the future of how professional service firms run their businesses. If you’re energized by solving complex challenges and shipping products that make a tangible impact, you’ll thrive here.

About us:

At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

What you'll do:

• Owning the development, evolution, and implementation of 8am’s design system component library to enable consistent, high-quality user experiences and accelerate product delivery across teams.
• Leading the development of a best-in-class mobile application tailored to the needs of professionals on the go.
• Defining and evolving the front-end architecture and technical strategy to enable scalable, long-term business growth.
• Lead and coach a team of passionate engineers through regular, direct feedback, career development planning, and hands-on technical mentorship.
• Support and help deliver the front-end technical vision across web and mobile platforms, ensuring architectural decisions scale with product and team growth.
• Ensure strong front-end architecture by reviewing designs and influencing implementation approaches.
• Guide UI modernization efforts by balancing prioritization of feature development and platform investments.
• Translate business goals into clear technical direction to help engineers understand why their work matters.
• Create a psychologically safe team culture where engineers feel empowered to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and experiment without fear of blame.
• Model curiosity and passion by investing in learning, questioning default choices, and encouraging the team to do the same.
• Partner closely with cross-functional partners to shape roadmaps, align on trade-offs, and ensure engineering effort maps clearly to business outcomes.
  Champion usability, accessibility, and performance as product qualities.
• Lead team ceremonies, including sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Influence the broader engineering organization by sharing best practices and unblocking cross-team initiatives.

About you:

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Enjoy building delightful, performant user experiences
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and debugging large-scale, cloud-based solutions.
• 2+ years managing, mentoring and leading engineering teams
• Professional experience building production-grade React applications, including developing reusable components, managing complex state using external stores and context, and optimizing front-end performance.
• Experience with Lean product development and Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Effectively leverage LLMs to improve engineering workflows (e.g., code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation), with a clear understanding of their limitations and risks.
• Understand AI agent architectures and related tooling (e.g., tool use, orchestration, MCP servers), and apply sound judgment when evaluating or adopting them.
• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles and software design patterns.
• Excellent teamwork, documentation, and communication skills.
  
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with React, Bootstrap, Tailwind, and modern frontend technologies.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails (or equivalent), NodeJS and NextJS.
• Experience building iOS and Android mobile applications using Expo/React Native.
• Experience building scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

Additional Information
The annual salary range for this position is $150,000 to $220,000. The salary range for performing this role outside of the US / Austin / California may differ.  8am is committed to offering competitive, fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and education.

Why 8am: 

At 8am, our culture is shaped by the people who bring it to life every day. Together, we build a company rooted in continuous learning, genuine community, holistic wellness, and meaningful engagement—values that empower us as individuals and unite us as a team. Our culture is grounded in our core values: Work Smart, Win Fast; Outshine Ordinary, and We Find a Way. These values drive how we serve our customers and work with each other in a collaborative, inspiring, and empowering environment, every day.

Here’s how we support our 8Team:

• Health Insurance Coverage: We offer our 8Team a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit your needs, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees.
• Financial perks: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members.
• Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for our new parents.
• Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching.
• Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development.
• Giving back to the communities around us: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually).
• Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform.

At 8am, we don’t just offer benefits - we create an environment where people can thrive, grow, and make a real impact every day.

Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:

At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. 

Security advisory:

Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology.  As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices.  We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process.  All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person.  All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.