Sr Manager, Software Engineering
About The Position
Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. Job Summary We are seeking a highly capable and hands-on Senior Software Engineer to lead the modernization and simplification of our custom application landscape. This role will be responsible for analyzing legacy applications, identifying opportunities for consolidation and rationalization, and rebuilding critical business applications using modern cloud-native architectures, development frameworks, and AI-powered software engineering tools. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with proficiency in emerging AI-assisted development platforms such as OpenAI Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and similar tools to dramatically accelerate code analysis, documentation, refactoring, testing, and application redevelopment. This is a transformational role focused on reducing technical debt, improving maintainability, increasing development velocity, and simplifying the enterprise application portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proven experience modernizing legacy applications and reducing technical debt.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, software architecture patterns, API development, integration technologies and enterprise application development.
- Deep experience in one or more languages: C#, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience working with Cloud platforms such as Azure (preferred), AWS, Google Cloud
Responsibilities
- Analyze existing custom applications, integrations, and legacy codebases.
- Create application inventories and dependency maps.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate redundant applications, eliminate debt, reduce maintenance costs, and improve scalability
- Develop modernization roadmaps and migration strategies
- Leverage AI-assisted development platforms such as: Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor
- Use AI tools to Reverse-engineer legacy applications, generate technical documentation, accelerate code refactoring, create test cases and automation. Improve code quality, increase developer productivity.
- Refactor monolithic legacy applications into modern architectures.
- Design and build cloud-native applications, API first services, event-driven architectures, microservices where appropriate, and modernize user experiences using contemporary web and mobile frameworks.
- Implement reusable development patterns and engineering standards
- Establish engineering best practices including: DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality controls, security by design.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture standards
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business teams
- Create architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
- Document legacy-to-target-state transformation plans.
- Build reusable engineering assets, accelerators, and coding standards.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
- Life Insurance
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Matching 401(k) Contributions
- Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
