Principal Engineering Management Job

About Karbon Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries, we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, growing rapidly, and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work® certification and on Fortune magazine's Best Small Workplaces™ List.

Engineering Manager, Engagements to Payments

Engagements to Payments (E2P) looks after how accounting firms get paid. That covers the whole journey: proposals and engagement letters, time and budgets, invoicing, online payments, collections, and syncing with accounting systems like Xero and QuickBooks Online. This part of Karbon touches our customers’ revenue, so quality and data integrity really matter.

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

Keep building out the E2P feature set, so firms can manage everything from engagements to payments in Karbon.

Help larger firms (20 to 1,000+ seats) run their billing on Karbon, with support for multiple entities, business units and granular permissions.

Move our core billing screens from Ember to React, and break parts of our monolith into independently deployable services.

You’ll lead a team of 8 frontend and backend engineers and report to our VP of Engineering. This isn’t a hands-on coding role, but you’ll need a strong technical background to guide design decisions, weigh up trade-offs and earn the team’s trust.

Raise the bar on technical quality: clear boundaries, sound designs and high operational standards.

Improve delivery speed and quality by reducing lead time and change failure rate, with customers front and centre.

Frontend: React and TypeScript (migrating from Ember)

Backend: .NET (C#, .NET Core, Web API) with SQL Server

2+ years as an Engineering Manager.

• A track record of improving quality and speed through technical and process change.
• A strong understanding of distributed systems and data integrity.
• Billing or payments experience.

Flexible working environment

• A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback
• Our Engineering Standards

Balance Speed and Quality

Engineers are expected to balance delivery speed with a strong commitment to quality, meeting agreed timelines while producing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested solutions. Engineering is collaborative by default. Team members are expected to contribute constructively in design discussions, reviews, and planning, communicate clearly about progress and risks, and support shared team outcomes in both hybrid and distributed environments.

Engineers are responsible for building new capabilities while maintaining and improving existing systems. Engineers are accountable for the quality, performance, and customer impact of their work from design through post-release support, and are expected to follow through on commitments.

AI-Enabled Engineering

AI is reshaping how software is built, and we are committed to leveraging it as a force multiplier for creativity, impact, and capability. Engineers contribute positively to a culture of professionalism, transparency, low bureaucracy, and mutual respect, strengthening team performance through authenticity, curiosity, and collaboration.

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. 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.

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