Job Details
Job Location: Remote - Charlotte, NC 28208
Position Type: Full Time
Job Category: Engineering
Next Glass connects the global beverage industry through innovative software, data, marketing, and eCommerce solutions. We are the Worldwide Leader in Bev Tech®, offering a suite of software, services, and experiences to SMBs beverage producers, retailers, and consumers. Through leading platforms including Untappd & Untappd for Business, Ollie, Ekos, Oznr, BeerAdvocate, and Hop Culture, Next Glass maintains the world’s largest platform serving beverage producers, retailers, and enthusiasts and delivers unmatched value to our partners and customers through these engaged global audiences.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and hands-on engineering leader to join our team as a Software Engineering Manager for Producer Solutions. In this hybrid role, you'll spend roughly half of your time supporting and developing a small, remote-first engineering team, and the other half contributing directly to our C#/.NET and Azure-based applications. You'll lead by example, clearing obstacles and shaping the conditions for strong engineering practices to flourish while both improving established systems and bringing some new concepts to life. While not required, significant experience with stacks other than .NET or prior work across multiple simultaneous architectural paradigms will be considered a strong plus.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and support a small team of software engineers, providing guidance, clearing obstacles, and offering hands-on technical expertise in a remote-first environment.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, support effective planning, and ensure strong alignment between engineering work and product goals.
- Contribute to and influence technical design decisions across both legacy and modernized components of our C#/.NET and Azure-based applications, helping the team choose scalable, maintainable approaches.
- Participate in and help facilitate healthy engineering execution, ensuring the team’s workflows, communication patterns, and day-to-day practices support predictable, high-quality outcomes.
- Conduct code reviews, reinforce coding standards, and promote engineering practices to maintain code quality and enable efficient, effective software construction now & in the future.
- Stay informed about emerging development patterns, including AI-assisted and agentic AI techniques, and help the team evaluate and adopt those that meaningfully improve our engineering processes.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in professional software engineering, including hands-on development in C#/.NET and cloud-based applications (Azure preferred).
- Solid understanding of frontend fundamentals (JavaScript, CSS, HTML).
- Demonstrated success leading engineers, ideally in a remote-first or distributed team environment.
- A leadership approach centered on empowerment, collaboration, and high-trust team environments.
- Strong grounding in modern engineering practices, including code quality, testing, continuous improvement, collaborative design, and AI-assisted development.
- Familiarity with multiple architectural paradigms and the ability to reason about maintainability, modernization, and technical tradeoffs.
- Clear, effective communication skills, with the ability to support cross-functional alignment and translate technical topics for diverse audiences.
- Ability to navigate a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and complex sets of priorities.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or other non-.NET stacks is a plus, but not required.
- Experience in the beverage-alcohol or manufacturing domain is a plus, but not required.
