Software Engineering Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• 5 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

• 6-8 years of engineering leadership experience, with a track record of growing engineers and delivering complex, distributed systems at enterprise scale
• Deep fluency in AI-augmented engineering — you actively use and champion tools like GitHub Copilot, Gemini Enterprise, and Claude, and you hold your team accountable to measurable AI adoption
• Comfortable with agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and responsible AI governance in production environments
• Strong foundation in modern backend engineering: Java, Spring Boot, GCP, Cassandra, distributed search (Solr, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Experience driving platform reliability, observability, cloud cost optimization, and security compliance across large-scale microservices
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive change across a large engineering organization
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is between $140,000.00 - $240,000.00