Software Engineering Manager

Midwestern Software Solutions, LLC ("MS2")•Ann Arbor, MI

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

MS2 is a national leader in transportation data management and analysis with the largest traffic count database in North America. Over 270 agencies in 31 US States and 3 Canadian Provinces use MS2 software. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, MS2 offers a friendly, open, team environment with competitive compensation and benefits. We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, drive the delivery of scalable, high-quality software, and foster a strong, collaborative culture. This role focuses on team leadership, Agile practices, and operational excellence, partnering with technical leads and cross-functional teams to align priorities and ensure successful execution.

Requirements

Experience leading software engineers as a tech lead, team lead, project lead, or first-line manager, including coaching, feedback, and growth conversations.
Strong agile facilitation skills across standups, planning, review, and retrospective formats.
Delivery ownership across one or more concurrent projects or teams.
Clear, direct written and verbal communication. Comfortable holding people accountable while maintaining trust.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Hands-on software development experience supporting a SaaS product in production.
Familiarity with Git-based source control and unit testing practice.
Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, a related field or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Two or more years of direct people-management experience.
Working experience with a Microsoft-based application stack (C# / .NET, MS SQL Server, Entity Framework) and modern web development (TypeScript, React), operating in AWS-hosted environments.
Prior experience in a B2B SaaS or regulated-industry software environment.
Exposure to transportation, government, or public-sector software space.
Experience leading teams through methodology or structural transition.
Familiarity with SLO-driven operations and production support workflows.

Responsibilities

Manage software engineers across assigned teams through 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and growth conversations.
Set development goals, hold engineers accountable to them, and build individual growth paths in partnership with each engineer.
Partner across engineering leadership to surface performance signals, coaching needs, and growth opportunities.
Develop senior individual contributors into technical leaders and mentors.
Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and ramp plans for engineers joining the teams.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused team culture.
Manage and reinforce Agile practices across the group, including standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Maintain healthy sprint cadence, backlog hygiene, and delivery predictability in partnership with the Product team.
Translate product requirements and specifications into executable plans across assigned teams.
Track and report on delivery health, risks, and impediments. Escalate early when scope, capacity, or dependency risk threatens commitments.
Ensure inbound work is triaged and addressed in alignment with service level objectives.
Partner with engineers on technical scoping, estimation, and review practices.
Drive adoption of group engineering standards (code review, testing, documentation, deployment quality).
Provide technical sign-off on team-level decisions where appropriate and escalate architectural questions to the Director of Software Engineering and Lead Architect.
Partner with the QA team on test coverage, automation investment, and deployment-quality ownership.
Coordinate with the Technical Support Manager on escalated customer issues.
Maintain operational awareness of production health across Software Engineering's systems and support incident response when code is implicated.
Coordinate across engineering teams and with adjacent teams (QA, Support, Product) on planning, dependencies, and delivery risk.
Own inbound triage and cross-team dependency resolution for assigned teams.
Communicate status, risks, and outcomes clearly and directly to engineers, peers, and leadership.