Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

Job Description

As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead, scale, and inspire the teams building core digital products. This position plays a key role in supporting digital product delivery and engineering operations by modernizing engineering practices, improving developer productivity, strengthening operational excellence, and enabling teams to deliver high-quality software on a scale. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, forward-thinking engineering leader who balances a people-first leadership philosophy with a strong focus on delivery, customer outcomes, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will:

• Mentor engineering leaders and individual contributors, fostering ownership, accountability and professional growth.
• Champion a product mindset by helping teams understand customer needs, measure outcomes, and solve meaningful user problems.
• Mature automated testing and deployment pipelines, improve development environments and tooling, and responsibly adopt AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including employees, contractors, and external development partners, to ensure alignment, quality, and delivery excellence.
• Establish lightweight governance and predictable delivery practices that enable speed, consistency, and proactive risk and dependency management.
• Drive reliability, availability, and operational readiness through observability, monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and scaling Agile software engineering organizations, including coaching senior engineers and technical leaders.
• At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, web technologies, APIs, and mobile application ecosystems.
• Experience building and operating reliable production systems with observability, monitoring, incident response, and service ownership practices.
• Experience evaluating and incorporating AI-assisted development tools and workflows into engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
• Experience with SQL and Snowflake.
• Experience with Kotlin and/or Swift.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience with DevEx analytics tools.

\nCompany Description

Top Prospect Group founders and management team offer more than 25 years
of experience in Information Technology and Creative Staffing. Our fundamental goal is to build successful relationships resulting in accurate job and prospect representations. Top Prospect Group meets with those we work with face-to-face to garner a better understanding of candidate or client requirements. By leveraging our experience and market insight, we are then able to provide a more consistent recruitment process.

Company Description

Top Prospect Group founders and management team offer more than 25 years\r\n of experience in Information Technology and Creative Staffing. Our fundamental goal is to build successful relationships resulting in accurate job and prospect representations. Top Prospect Group meets with those we work with face-to-face to garner a better understanding of candidate or client requirements. By leveraging our experience and market insight, we are then able to provide a more consistent recruitment process.