Software Engineering Manager

Vital IT Services•Allen, TX

18d•$140,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Vital Services is seeking a talented and experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our growing Information Technology team. This is an extraordinary opportunity to be a part of, and play an integral role in, the expansion of our Software-as-a-Service team! The core focus of the Software Engineering Manager will be to lead, mentor, and structurally organize engineering teams executing across multiple client-facing Time and Materials (T&M) work queues, maximizing billable resource utilization and project delivery velocity while protecting a 20% margin target.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1-2 years operating as a Technical Lead, Scrum Lead, or frontline Engineering Manager running dedicated delivery squads.
Strong mastery of running backlog refinement, daily standups, and sprint tracking inside Jira and Confluence.
A robust software engineering background—fully capable of reading pull requests, guiding database logic conversations, and evaluating architectural patterns alongside the Lead Architect.
Comfortable translating corporate execution goals (like your overall billable benchmarks) into daily developer expectations, conducting performance check-ins, and driving professional accountability.
Exceptional ability to jump into a live sprint queue, identify structural development friction, and pull in cross-team resources (like the Domain BA or Architect) to unblock execution instantly.

Responsibilities

Directing, coaching, and managing a dedicated squad of Software Engineers and Web Developers, driving high individual execution and clear career paths.
Actively monitoring active team sprint lines, triaging daily progress blockers, and protecting ticket velocity to ensure consistent team-level commitments are met.
Ensuring the squad adheres completely to centralized engineering standards (e.g., proper code review turnaround, automated unit testing, strict logging formats, and clean Jira documentation).
Partnering seamlessly with the assigned Scrum Master and Project Manager to keep workflows optimized, scope managed, and technical dependencies flagged early.
Managing near-term team capacity details, ensuring developers remain highly allocated to high-priority, billable client or SaaS product streams.
Achieve and maintain a >= 80% collective sprint predictability ratio across their assigned team backlog.
Enforce execution standards to keep team-generated bugs and internal regressions under < 5% of total completed sprint points.
Ensure the team maintains a rolling average of < 24 hours on open pull request reviews to eliminate pipeline friction.
100% team-wide daily compliance on time tracking, ticket comment updates, and precise story point estimations.