SchoolTool Software Engineering Manager - Hybrid

Mindex•Rochester, NY

1d•$120,000 - $173,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Mindex is looking for a SchoolTool Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the continued development and evolution of our SchoolTool platform. This role combines people leadership, technical strategy, and operational excellence to help teams deliver secure, scalable, and customer-focused software solutions. You'll play a key role in developing engineers, driving modern engineering practices, improving delivery processes, and partnering across Product, UX, QA, Support, and CloudOps to build high-quality products. We're looking for a collaborative leader who is passionate about coaching teams, leading through change, and advancing AI-assisted software development in a practical and measurable way.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
7+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership or management responsibilities across multiple engineering teams or workstreams
Proven experience coaching engineers, developing high-performing teams, and managing performance and career growth
Experience delivering enterprise software products with active customers, production support responsibilities, and regular release cycles
Strong background in software architecture, scalable application design, legacy modernization, and secure software development
Experience with Microsoft .NET, C#, RESTful APIs, relational databases, and modern web application architecture
Experience with component-based UI development, Blazor, .NET MAUI, design systems, and shared component libraries
Experience with AWS or other cloud-hosted environments, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and Azure DevOps or similar development tools
Experience collaborating with Product, UX, QA, Support, CloudOps, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Experience leading engineering transformation initiatives and driving adoption of modern software development practices

Nice To Haves

Experience using or leading AI-assisted software development workflows is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop multiple software engineering teams through regular one-on-ones, performance feedback, career development, and mentorship
Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on accountability, continuous learning, and high-quality software delivery
Support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning to build strong, scalable engineering teams
Drive delivery execution by managing priorities, balancing customer needs, technical debt, production support, and platform modernization initiatives
Coordinate release planning, OKRs, cross-team initiatives, risk management, and operational readiness to ensure successful product delivery
Partner with Product, UX, QA, Support, CloudOps, and other stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver exceptional customer outcomes
Lead technical response efforts for production issues and customer-impacting incidents through effective coordination, communication, and resolution
Collaborate with senior engineers to define architectural direction, establish engineering standards, reduce technical risk, and improve platform maintainability
Advance software quality through improved engineering practices, automation, observability, security, and modernization efforts
Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development across planning, coding, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while promoting responsible AI practices and measurable team outcomes