Senior Software Development Manager Jobs in Washington

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to help scale our platform and expand the breadth of features we offer to our restaurant clients. You will be responsible for the delivery, quality, and growth of your team while acting as a key partner to product and design. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping engineers grow and ensuring your team ships high-quality software that thousands of restaurants rely on across the US and Canada.

MarginEdge is a SaaS platform that serves independent restaurants with a focus on simplifying complex operations and delivering actionable insights. Our system is cloud-hosted on AWS, with services developed using Java/Spring Boot and front-end technologies like React and React Native. Our data architecture leverages both NoSQL (DynamoDB) and relational (Postgres) databases. We also have a growing portfolio of IoT hardware products and integrations, like our SmartScale, that simplify kitchen tasks and provide real-time data collection in restaurants.

MarginEdge: Where hospitality meets technology

As a team built by former (and current!) restaurant operators, our mission is to bring operators the same energy, attention to detail, and passion that they bring to their guests. Our culture is deeply rooted in service, partially because that’s where so many of our team come from (including everyone on our Business Development team), but also because we believe it is just the right way to run a business. We design our software with profound empathy for the complexity of running a restaurant, and the goal of making the magic just a little easier for operators by taking the complex (read: very annoying) back office tasks off their plate, while empowering them with real-time data.

Our founders share a deep history in both owning and operating restaurants and in building successful tech companies. We are venture-backed and serve 11,000+ restaurants across the US and Canada.

We enable restaurants to make magic while knowing we are doing the same for them.

We have the utmost respect for our clients and because of this, we are unable to hire their current employees.

What type of responsibilities will I have?

• Own the delivery strategy for your team and serve as the primary facilitator between product, design, and engineering. You will fill gaps where your team needs them — whether that's clarifying requirements, pressure-testing designs, or rolling up your sleeves and contributing directly when it matters.

• Lead and develop your team by fostering a high-performance culture, removing obstacles, and continuously optimizing how your team works. You'll coach engineers on using AI to accelerate their output — helping them apply it thoughtfully for code generation, debugging, and testing — while holding the bar high on quality, ownership, and technical judgment.

• Ensure accountability for support and operations across the systems your team owns. You'll stay closely connected to customer feedback and issues, use operational data to surface recurring pain points, and advocate for the time and resources needed to address them.

• Contribute to the technical strategy and architectural decisions for your team, helping engineers make sound trade-offs between business needs and software development excellence. You'll drive clarity through ambiguity and ensure your team has the context they need to make confident decisions.

What qualifications or skills are required?

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead role.

• Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams, with a focus on delivery, quality, and culture.

• Strong software development background with experience in Java and/or JavaScript (React); comfortable engaging in technical discussions and code reviews.

• Experience working in a product-driven environment with cross-functional collaboration across product, design, and QA.

• Ability to balance technical excellence with business objectives and manage trade-offs effectively.

• Strong communication skills — able to clearly convey project status, risks, and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with cloud-based systems, distributed architectures, and AWS infrastructure.

What qualifications or skills are nice to have?

• Background in restaurant technology or hospitality industry software.

• Experience in a fast-growing SaaS startup environment.

• Familiarity with AWS and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with IoT device management.

• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code to accelerate software development.

What’s it like to work for MarginEdge?

Imagine the fun of a great restaurant - surrounded by a team of people (including some that you help to manage!) who care about hospitality, care about quality, and care about each other - then subtract the long nights, weekends, drunk customers at the bar...et voila, MarginEdge!

We work hard, we work fast and we fuel our work with a commitment of transparency from leadership, straight talk and trust between teams. We believe that the best people do their best work when they feel empowered - so whether you are remote or in our office (likely eating a catered lunch from our clients in our baller, brand new penthouse HQ in Ballston) you get to work with your manager to call your shot on what works best for you. Did we mention it has a full commercial kitchen and is walking distance (covered walking, that is) from the metro?

Benefits (Shut the Front Door, They are Amazing)
In order to fuel this rocket ship, we need to build a team as passionate about our work and product as we are. We believe that top talent (that’s you!) should feel deeply connected to their work, appreciated for the time they give to building our organization and have the balance necessary to give their best during work hours and all those after-hours too. We do this by offering a suite of kick ass benefits not only to be competitive and catch the eye of super smart people (that’s you again!) but also provide the foundation for a career you love and a life outside of work you love just as much.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (and we mean it, we encourage your healthy work life balance!)

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short/Long-Term Disability Insurance (preventative care for the win)

• Health Savings Account with employer match (dependent upon your medical plan selection)

• Commuter benefits with employer contribution (excluding limos and helos - for now)

• Generous Life Insurance Plan

• Short- and Long-term Disability

• Company-Paid Holidays

• 401(k) and matching

• Stock Options to buy into everything we are doing to support this industry

• 12-week fully Paid Parental Leave

• Lunch catered twice a week at our HQ in Arlington (we exclusively cater from our clients, too!

• A wellness program that sponsors healthy activities such as step challenges and provides discounts to gyms and fitness classes.

Check out our 100% “Recommend to a Friend” rating from anonymous employee reviews on Glassdoor.

Oh, and our recognition in the Washington Post as a top small businesses to work for in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025!

And most important, what our customers think about our work on Capterra and G2 Crowd.

Our Fine Print is Bold: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, marital, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. You be you. While we are proudest of our commitment to exceptional culture and creating a truly excellent work environment, we see our benefits as an extension of that belief. Our benefits package is designed to be exceptionally competitive and a reflection of our commitment to a best-in-class workplace for all.