Development Manager

Who We Are

Catalis is a leading government Software as a Service (SaaS) and integrated payments provider, powering a wide range of government operations at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels. Our innovative solutions are designed to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and improve the delivery of government services to the public. At Catalis, we are committed to leveraging technology to make government interactions simpler, faster, and more accessible.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on Development Manager to lead the engineering and delivery of our flagship product - a mature .NET / SQL Server / Angular application running on AWS. This is a player-coach role: approximately 50% hands-on development and 50% engineering management. You will own end-to-end delivery across all projects, build a high-performing team, and continue to write and review code yourself.

This is not a pure people-management role. You will stay close to the code, set the technical bar through your own contributions, and unblock the team when things get hard and most importantly drive AI tools adoption in the engineering team. If you enjoy mentoring engineers in the morning, debugging a production issue in a stored procedure in the afternoon, and reviewing an Angular pull request before dinner - this role is for you.

What You Will Do

Hands-on technical work (~50%)

• Design, develop, and review production code across the stack: C# / .NET back end, SQL Server, Angular front end, RESTful web services and APIs hosted on AWS.
• Lead complex technical investigations - performance bottlenecks, architectural refactors, production incidents, security and compliance work.
• Drive technical decisions: framework upgrades, modernization of legacy components, API design, database tuning, and AWS infrastructure improvements.
• Set the code-quality bar through hands-on code reviews, pairing, and contributing to the most critical or risky parts of each release.
• Own the technical roadmap for the product, balancing new feature work with paying down legacy debt.

Delivery and process (~25%)

• Take full ownership of the delivery of all engineering projects - scope, schedule, quality, and outcomes.
• Define, document, and continuously improve engineering processes: sprint planning, estimation, code review, branching, CI/CD, release management, on-call, and incident response.
• Partner with Product, QA, and stakeholders to translate business priorities into a credible engineering plan, and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
• Track team-level metrics (velocity, cycle time, escaped defects, uptime) and use them to drive meaningful improvements - not vanity reporting.

People management and mentorship (~25%)

• Directly manage a team of 6 engineers: 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews, career development, and compensation recommendations.
• Mentor engineers at all levels - help juniors grow into mid-level contributors and stretch senior engineers toward tech-lead responsibilities.
• Hire, onboard, and retain strong engineers. Build a team culture of ownership, technical curiosity, and constructive feedback.
• Address performance issues directly and fairly.