Senior Software Development Manager
UTA Ventures is the venture division of United Talent Agency.
About UTA Ventures
UTA Ventures seeks out, builds, and accelerates innovative businesses that change how people live, work, and play. It operates at the intersection of entertainment, commerce, and technology, partnering with talent to build companies, extend brand platforms, and expand into new categories. The division also invests in growing startups, including businesses in the creator economy, frontier technology, and the future of entertainment.
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About the Role
UTA seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead engineering execution for enterprise financial systems. The role builds and scales applications for payments, invoicing, revenue recognition, and deal execution while driving technical strategy, secure system design, AWS infrastructure, enterprise integrations, and cross-functional delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years leading backend or platform teams or delivering complex financial systems.
- Backend expertise with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL or equivalent.
- Strong AWS architecture background.
- Infrastructure as Code experience such as Terraform.
- Experience with event-driven systems and microservice architectures.
- Track record delivering systems with high audit and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, or Stripe.
- Strong data modeling, transactional workflow, and secure service architecture experience.
- Experience with compliance-focused environments and financial systems including payments, trust accounting, GL integration, and revenue recognition.
- Experience with serverless architecture and Function-as-a-Service patterns.
- Understanding of multi-party payments, invoicing, tax handling, PII, GDPR, CCPA, and secure data flows.
Responsibilities
- Own scalable backend services for payments, revenue recognition, and financial workflows.
- Lead backend and frontend development across financial systems.
- Design APIs, data models, and UI integrations.
- Lead enterprise deal-to-cash integrations and define service boundaries, SLAs, and domain models.
- Architect cloud-native AWS systems using Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, and EventBridge.
- Embed security-first principles, IAM, encryption, auditable data flows, secure CI/CD, and risk mitigation.
- Ensure platform components meet internal controls and compliance standards.
- Manage and grow backend and platform engineers.
- Drive roadmap execution and complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Partner with product, architecture, vendors, and finance stakeholders.
- Translate financial and contractual rules into reusable service logic.
- Drive quality, automation, and performance.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at a leading global entertainment company.
- Access to tools, leadership, and resources to create and drive a center of excellence.
- Opportunity to do the best work of your career.
- Inclusive and diverse company culture.
- Competitive programs supporting employee well-being.
- Collaborative environment with room to grow.
