Software Engineering Manager

Point of Rental Software•Fort Worth, TX

90d•$240,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to own the Global API and unified platform, ensuring the infrastructure that Elite, Syrinx, and Essentials all depend on stays reliable and well-documented. This role involves leading and mentoring a small team of engineers, balancing hands-on technical guidance with day-to-day people management. The ideal candidate will stay engaged with the codebase, shipping real code and not just reviewing pull requests. A key aspect of this role is driving the daily use of agentic AI development tools across the team, building reusable skills, sub-agents, and workflows. You will also be responsible for producing and maintaining technical artifacts, partnering with engineering and product leadership, estimating realistically, managing team schedules, and recommending improvements to engineering leadership. This position requires strong communication skills to serve as a point of contact for other teams needing to understand the impact of changes to the Global API.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software development experience, ideally including ownership of a shared API, integration layer, or platform used by multiple products or teams.
Daily, hands-on experience with agentic AI coding tools. You should be comfortable building custom skills, sub-agents, or workflows around these tools, and able to speak specifically to what you’ve built.
Strong full-stack experience: backend (Node, Python, .NET, PHP, or similar) and front-end SPA framework (Angular, Vue, React, or similar)
Solid experience with an RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, or similar), including comfort designing and revising ERDs on the spot.
Strong, proactive communication skills. This role sits between multiple teams and requires someone engaged with collaborative
A track record of realistic estimation and delivering on commitments without needing to be chased.

Nice To Haves

CS/Math/Computer Engineering degree, or equivalent hands-on experience with algorithms, design patterns, and data structures.

Responsibilities

Own the Global API and unified platform, ensuring the infrastructure that Elite, Syrinx, and Essentials all depend on stays reliable and well-documented.
Lead and mentor a small team of engineers, balancing hands-on technical guidance with day-to-day people management.
Stay in the codebase yourself, this is not a pure-oversight role. You’re expected to ship real code, not just review pull requests.
Drive daily use of agentic AI development tools across the team, building reusable skills, sub-agents, and workflows rather than relying on one-off prompting.
Produce and maintain the technical artifacts such as, ERDs, swim-lane diagrams, and API flow documentation that keep cross-team dependencies visible to everyone who needs them.
Partner with engineering and product leadership across every RMS product to keep the Global API roadmap aligned with what each product line actually needs.
Estimate realistically, flag risk early, and deliver on commitments without requiring follow-up.
Manage scheduling, time off, performance conversations, and other standard people-management responsibilities for your team.
Recommend headcount, tooling, and process improvements to engineering leadership, and participate directly in hiring for your team.
Serve as the person other teams turn to when they need to understand how a change to the Global API will affect their product.