Engineering Manager Ortho2, LLC United States, Iowa, Ames 1107 Buckeye Avenue (Show on map) Sep 14, 2026 Engineering Manager This is a relatively new position, which means you won't inherit a playbook. You'll help define the role as you grow into it. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a ~10-person team of Software Developers, Senior Engineers, and a UI/UX. We have additional positions to fill, so you'll likely be shaping the team from your first weeks. You'll own their growth, their performance, and the health of how they work. This is a hands-on role. You'll be in design discussions regularly, and technical credibility with senior engineers is a core requirement, not a nice-to-have. The VP of Development will drive architecture and technical strategy. You own the team that executes it, and the partnership between those two seats is the backbone of this job. What you'll do: Lead, coach, and grow the development team: 1:1s, growth plans, performance management, and hiring

Stay hands-on: participate in architecture discussions, review code, and occasionally deploy

Own team capability: honestly assess skills against where our platform is heading, invest heavily in developing people, and make the hard calls when investment isn't working, including hiring the engineers the platform needs

Champion modern engineering practice: strong review culture, a real quality bar, and AI-assisted development as a first-class part of how the team works

Keep delivery healthy with lightweight, adaptive process; fit the process to the team and the moment, not the other way around

Occasionally represent engineering in technical conversations with vendors and enterprise customers Our environment Our cloud platform has been actively developed for over 20 years. A large share of functionality still lives in .NET Framework, WPF, and WCF, and we're migrating side-by-side to modern .NET microservices, React and SvelteKit web apps, and Kubernetes on Azure. You'd lead a team that works across that entire spectrum. Legacy and greenfield in the same week, sometimes the same day. We're small, so everyone wears multiple hats and roles flex with the need. Priorities shift with customer dynamics. If you thrive on structure someone else defined, rigid ceremonies, strict processes, tightly bounded roles - you will not enjoy this job. If ambiguity reads as freedom to you, you will. What we're looking for 8+ years building software, with meaningful depth in .NET and React a plus. Recent enough hands-on work to earn the respect of senior engineers in a code review

3+ years managing software engineers, including real hiring and performance-management outcomes

A track record of raising a team's productivity bar. Coaching people to new skill levels, and when necessary, managing people out with honesty and dignity

Comfort operating without a playbook: adapting process, priorities, and your own role as needs change

Fluency with AI-assisted development and what it changes about how teams work Bonus points for Modernizing a long-lived product while it stayed in production

Multi-tenant B2B SaaS experience

Leading a team's adoption of AI development tooling

Experience partnering closely with UI/UX designers

WPF or desktop application background We don't require specific degrees, certifications, or agile credentials. We'd rather hear about what your teams shipped,and how you grew. If this sounds like the kind of role you'd help build rather than fill, we want to talk.