Engineering Manager

About Karbon

Karbon is the global leader in practice management software for growth-minded accounting firms. We provide an award-winning, highly collaborative cloud platform that streamlines work and communication, enabling the average accounting firm using Karbon to save 18.5 hours per week, per employee.

We have customers in 34 countries and have grown into a globally distributed team, with our people based throughout the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, have a fantastic team culture built on our values, are growing rapidly, and making a global impact.

Engineering Manager — Engagements to Payments

About Karbon & the roleKarbon builds practice management software used by accounting firms worldwide, with a collaborative cloud platform and customers in 34+ countries supported by a globally distributed, fast-growing team.We’re hiring an Engineering Manager who grows high-impact teams that balance efficiency with excellence, value autonomy and creativity, and thrive in a collaborative, inclusive environment.

Team vision: “Manage long term, profitable client relationships while automating your work creation, invoicing and payments.”

• Build a world-class team: hire exceptionally, onboard well, coach growth, and set clear expectations and feedback loops.
• Raise the bar on technical excellence: clean boundaries, sound designs, high operational standards.
• Improve delivery quality & speed: reduce lead time and change failure rate; keep customer impact front and centre.
• Lead us toward Continuous Delivery (we’re not quite there yet).
• Own reliability with the team: SLOs/SLIs, observability, system health, and blameless incident reviews.
• Create autonomy with accountability: align goals and decision rights; foster strong cross-team collaboration.

• Frontend: React, TypeScript and Ember.
• Backend: .NET (C#, .NET Core, Web API) with SQL Server.
• Systems: distributed systems (messaging, event-driven, consistency).

• Previously a Senior+ IC before moving into management.
• 2+ years experience in Engineering Management.
• Proven record leading teams to improve quality and speed through technical + process change.
• Depth in distributed systems and data integrity at scale.
• Skill planning and delivering sprints with Product and Tech Leads, balancing new work, enhancements, bugs, and maintenance.
• Excellent communication across locations/time zones.
• Degree in CS or equivalent experience.

• Billing and Payments domain experience.
• Experience transitioning towards continuous delivery.
• Implementation of large scale technical migrations.

Join a fast-growing, product-led company helping accounting firms run their businesses end-to-end—learn from an experienced, high-performing team and see your work used globally.

• Global impact: Collaborate across the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, and the Philippines.
• Time to recharge: 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 “Karbon Days.”
• Flexibility: Supportive, flexible working environment.
• Grow fast: Learn from exceptional peers; we promote high performers from within.

Team first: Collaborative, feedback-rich culture; generous parental leave.

Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion, aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If you've made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesn't perfectly align, we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role!

We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, physical or cognitive ability, and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization.

Generally, if you are a good person, we want to talk to you. 😛

If there are any adjustments or accommodations that we can make to assist you during the recruitment process, and your journey at Karbon, contact us at people.support@karbonhq.com for a confidential discussion.

At this time, we request that agency referrals are not submitted for this position. We appreciate your understanding and encourage direct applications from interested candidates. Thank you!