Software Engineering Manager

Role Description

This position will serve as a full-stack developer to produce scalable software solutions. They will be part of a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. The developer will be expected to move between projects as priorities change. This role will work across all layers of the application front end, middle layer, and DB layer including development frameworks and third-party libraries.

Essential Job Functions:

• Product Development and Delivery:
  • Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of new and existing software products, applications, services, and components for client-facing and proprietary platforms.
  • Drive the delivery of high-quality software solutions that align with business objectives, client needs, product strategy, and long-term technology goals.
  • Partner with product, business, architecture, QA, security, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
  • Guide teams through Agile delivery practices, including short- and long-term planning, backlog alignment, sprint execution, demonstrations of working software, and delivery accountability.
  • Support the creation of Minimum Viable Products that deliver business value quickly while maintaining quality, scalability, and architectural integrity.
• Technical Leadership and Architecture:
  • Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex development, integration, troubleshooting, testing, and debugging efforts.
  • Contribute to and help shape the technical roadmap for projects, products, and platforms, ensuring alignment with future customer and business needs.
  • Define and guide system, technical, and application architecture decisions that promote reuse, componentization, extensibility, maintainability, performance, and security.
  • Evaluate new platforms, programming languages, frameworks, tools, and software products to determine feasibility and value for incorporation into company solutions.
  • Maintain strong working knowledge across modern software development environments and technologies, including Java, C#, .NET/.NET Core, AWS, Azure, API integrations, RESTful services, structured and unstructured databases, web technologies, and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React.
• Engineering Execution and Quality:
  • Oversee the execution of software engineering plans, development processes, standards, and documentation to ensure consistency, repeatability, and delivery discipline.
  • Ensure software solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including quality, security, stability, scalability, modifiability, performance, and data protection expectations.
  • Provide solutions and alternatives to resolve technical or delivery challenges that impact timelines, scalability, performance, production readiness, or implementation success.
  • Analyze code, architecture, and system behavior to identify causes of issues and guide corrective actions as needed.
  • Establish and monitor delivery metrics related to turnaround time, workload, rework, defects, test coverage, and team performance to support continuous improvement.
• Product Strategy and Innovation:
  • Stay informed on business initiatives, product objectives, infrastructure priorities, and development architecture considerations that influence engineering decisions.
  • Use data, user insights, and product feedback to identify opportunities, improve user experiences, and guide technical solutions that solve customer and business problems.
  • Run experiments on new and existing product features, evaluate results, and influence teams and leadership toward modern, effective engineering solutions.
  • Research emerging technologies, methodologies, and capability models to improve quality, predictability, delivery efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
  • Help align development capabilities with the future needs of clients, products, and the broader technology organization.
• People Leadership and Team Development:
  • Lead by example with a positive, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentor, coach, and develop software engineers, technical leads, PODs, and delivery teams to strengthen execution, technical capability, and overall performance.
  • Set goals, manage priorities, monitor commitments, and guide team members through performance development, workload planning, and delivery expectations.
  • Foster a culture of high performance, learning, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across technology teams.
  • Identify training needs and provide guidance on new technologies, engineering practices, tools, and delivery methods.
• Operational Management and Delivery Accountability:
  • Manage software service delivery for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring tasks, assignments, project activities, and timelines remain aligned with business priorities.
  • Continuously evaluate development progress against plans and partner with lead developers, project managers, and management to remove barriers and facilitate business outcomes.
  • Oversee individual and team project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables to ensure work is completed within agreed-upon timeframes.
  • Proactively coordinate with stakeholders and team members to resolve dependencies, clarify expectations, and maintain delivery momentum.
  • Provide direction across the software development and testing life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 12+ years of industry or relevant software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years in a VP-level role or equivalent senior leadership capacity.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design, and programming principles.
• Experience with application integration and building APIs for rapidly integrating products and platforms.
• Experience building software products across multiple platforms, environments, and industries.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications or migrating applications to the cloud; AWS experience preferred.
• Experience with microservices development, web application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, large-scale software systems, or security software development.
• Interest and ability to learn additional coding languages, frameworks, and technologies as business needs evolve.
• Strong product sense with the ability to connect technical decisions to user needs, business priorities, and product outcomes.
• Experience managing UX and human-centered design practices in support of customer-focused product development.
• Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps-aligned delivery teams.
• Experience developing software development estimates and supporting delivery planning.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, or similar engineering and delivery tools.
• Ability to serve as a player-coach by providing hands-on technical guidance while leading and developing a team of software developers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical concepts, product priorities, and delivery expectations.
• Strong organizational, administrative, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Proven analytical, logical, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing demands, delays, or unexpected changes.
• Ability to learn quickly, think creatively, and solve complex problems in high-pressure situations.
• Experience applying innovation methodologies, such as design thinking, to improve products, processes, or customer outcomes.
• Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to adjust approach or methods to best fit changing business, technical, or team needs.

Benefits

• The annual full-time base salary range for this role is $175,000.00 - $235,000.00.
• Specific compensation is determined through interviews and a review of relevant education, experience, training, skills, geographic location and alignment with market data.
• Certain positions may be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus as determined by bonus program guidelines, position eligibility and SitusAMC Senior Management approval.
• SitusAMC offers PTO and paid holidays, the terms of which are set forth in the program policies.
• All full-time employees are eligible to participate in various benefit plans, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance and 401K; in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.