Software Engineering Manager

Role overview

Leadership and delivery

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leads through coaching, performance management, and career planning.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Oversee product-team delivery, Agile practices, project planning, estimation, risk identification, and delivery planning.
• Monitor delivery metrics and promote predictable, high-quality work and sustainable team velocity.

Technical governance and operations

• Ensure adherence to SSDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, code review, and security standards; oversee risk remediation.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions and prioritize technical debt reduction.
• Champion monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability; support production incidents and system reliability improvements.
• Partner with product and project stakeholders; communicate priorities, risks, dependencies, and resource needs to technology leadership.

Minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience and 3 years leading Agile software development teams.
• Experience developing and supporting enterprise web applications.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, software engineering best practices, and modern development methodologies.
• Experience with SSDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, Agile delivery, relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, cloud application development, and source control.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 10 or more years of software development experience.
• Experience with data-driven web applications using SOA; knowledge of web architecture, including servers, load balancing, caching, databases, and replication.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted business applications; familiarity with Azure, Jira, DevOps practices, or deployment automation.
• Knowledge of public accounting or professional services; ability to lead high-performing teams while balancing business priorities and technical excellence.