Engineering Manager, Software Development

Recruit22 is partnering with a leading organization to identify an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team responsible for designing, building, and modernizing enterprise applications.

This role combines people leadership, software delivery, technical direction, cloud modernization, and AI innovation. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background and has transitioned into leadership while remaining technically credible and engaged with architecture and engineering decisions., * Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.

• Own engineering delivery, quality, execution, and technical outcomes.
• Partner with product, business, architecture, and technology leaders to translate business needs into scalable software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native development.
• Drive modernization initiatives utilizing Microsoft Azure.
• Guide the adoption of AI-powered development capabilities, LLM integrations, agents, and automation.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, and reliability.
• Conduct technical and architecture reviews while ensuring teams follow established engineering standards.
• Manage priorities, technical dependencies, delivery risks, and resource allocation.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance development, and career growth for engineers.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• 10 years of progressive software engineering experience.
• 3 years of experience leading or managing software engineering teams.
• Strong background building and supporting large-scale enterprise applications.
• Experience leading engineers in an Agile software development environment.
• Strong technical background with technologies such as:
• C# / .NET Core
• Java
• Python
• Go
• React.js
• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Strong understanding of:
• Microservices architecture
• Event-driven systems
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Cloud-native application development
• RESTful APIs and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience with Microsoft Azure technologies such as:
• AKS
• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus
• Cosmos DB
• Azure DevOps
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical priorities, business requirements, and delivery commitments.

AI & Emerging Technology Experience

Experience with or exposure to modern AI software development capabilities is highly desirable, including:

• AI agents and agentic workflows
• LLM integrations using platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Vector databases and semantic search
• AI-powered automation
• Incorporating AI into enterprise applications and engineering workflows

Leadership Qualifications

• Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing software engineers.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams.
• Ability to provide technical leadership without needing to be the primary hands-on developer.
• Experience establishing engineering standards and improving development practices.
• Comfortable leading teams through modernization, architectural change, and adoption of new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud modernization initiatives.
• Azure Solutions Architect certification or equivalent cloud experience.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience implementing observability and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience building or scaling engineering teams.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development practices into engineering organizations.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience will be considered.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) with automatic enrollment eligibility
• Paid Holidays
• PTO beginning on day one
• Additional voluntary benefit offerings

Why This Role?