Software Development Manager, AI Builder Tools

MaintainX

About The Position

MaintainX is the leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform built for the modern world. Our mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running. MaintainX powers operational excellence for 12,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell. We recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion. We’re redefining how maintenance and operations teams work—transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic lever for growth. MaintainX fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity, empowering organizations to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency. The Opportunity: This is a rare opportunity to be at the forefront of AI-powered developer tooling at one of the most impactful industrial software companies in the world. You won't just be managing platform engineers, you'll help transform how every MaintainX engineer writes, ships, and maintains software through autonomous coding agents and infrastructure. We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead our newly formed AI Builder Tools team. This lean, high-autonomy, focused team has one mandate: make every MX engineer more productive through agentic tooling across the software development lifecycle — starting with autonomous coding agents that can take a ticket, implement the change, and open a pull request with with minimal hand-holding. Join us in shaping the future of how software gets built—one agent, one PR, one software developer at a time.

Requirements

4+ years of Software Development management experience with proven success leading platform, DevEx, or infrastructure teams.
Strong technical foundation in developer tooling, CI/CD, containerization, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated experience in technical design, problem-solving, and project management
Passion for hiring, coaching, and developing diverse platform engineering teams.
Excellent communication skills - you can distill complex ideas and collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with LLM agent frameworks, MCP tooling, or agentic coding infrastructure is a strong differentiator.
Bonus: you've shipped an AI coding agent or contributed to a DevEx/platform initiative that measurably improved engineering throughput.

Responsibilities

Manage a team of platform engineers, driving delivery, quality, and innovation on our agentic SDLC platform.
Partner with Engineering Leadership and Platform teams to scope, plan, and deliver the infrastructure that powers autonomous coding agents across MaintainX.
Lead, mentor, and grow your developers—helping them build new skills in agent frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering.
Set clear expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and support the team in achieving goals.
Champion software development excellence—ensuring strong CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, observability, and agent orchestration practices.
Provide visibility into team impact, progress, and risks to senior leadership—including agent-produced PR rates, adoption metrics, and quality guardrails.
Collaborate with Recruiting and other Software Development Managers to hire, onboard, and scale a world-class platform engineering organization.