Software Engineering Manager

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who combines strong hands-on software engineering skills with people leadership experience.

This person will lead a team of approximately 5-8 engineers, remain hands-on with architecture and coding, and partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and other enterprise teams.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and mentor a team of 5-8 software engineers.

Provide coaching, feedback, and career development.

Promote ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Support team engagement and performance management.

Technical Leadership & Development - 50%

Contribute to system architecture, design, development, deployment, and production support.

Build scalable, secure, resilient, and observable applications.

Establish CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and modern engineering practices.

Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, and other enterprise teams.

Support adoption of AI/ML capabilities where appropriate.

Cross-Functional Leadership - 20%

Partner with Product Owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and project progress.

Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.

Required Skills

Must Have:

6-8+ years of software engineering experience.

2+ years of engineering management/team leadership experience.

Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS.

Distributed systems and API experience.

CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and security practices.

System design and architecture experience.

Experience leading complex cross-functional engineering initiatives.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with workflow-driven or compliance-sensitive applications.

Case management or decisioning platform experience.

AI/ML or data-driven product experience.

Platform architecture and shared services experience.

Experience working with sensitive user data and security/regulatory requirements.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate will be:

Hands-on Engineering Manager + Full Stack Engineer

They should be comfortable spending significant time coding and designing systems, not just managing people.

The ideal background would include:

React + TypeScript + Node.js + AWS + Distributed Systems + Event-Driven Architecture + Engineering Management