AI/LLM Sr Manager of Software Engineering - Java and Python

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this., * Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of mid-level software engineers delivering AI-enabled capabilities across the ProductGPT ecosystem, spanning basic to moderately complex tasks, and evolving toward more advanced agentic and workflow-based solutions

• Lead with a hands-on mindset: stay close to design and implementation, unblock delivery, and drive engineering excellence through code reviews, architecture guidance, and pragmatic decision-making
• Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures, especially as priorities shift in a fast-moving AI domain
• Establish and iterate on AI development strategies for use-case delivery, including LLM integration approaches, evaluation strategies, prompt/context management, orchestration patterns, and safe deployment practices
• Ensure successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders in multiple locations, partnering closely with product team representation to align on outcomes, milestones, tradeoffs, and sequencing
• Manage and prioritize multiple concurrent requests and initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with platform health, operational readiness, and long-term technical direction
• Drive cloud-native engineering practices leveraging AWS services and modern data/storage patterns, ensuring solutions are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-aware
• Promote strong engineering fundamentals across the stack, including API design, data modeling, resiliency, testing discipline, CI/CD, and operational excellence
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
• Creates a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation

Do you have experience in Technology management?, * Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.

• Experience leading teams of technologists.
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Strong software engineering foundation with hands-on experience building services in Java and Python, working with databases, and using modern integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM-enabled application development, including prompt/context design, orchestration and agentic patterns, and evaluation/quality approaches.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or firm-approved equivalents) to accelerate secure, high-quality development, test automation, and code review within enterprise guardrails.
• Ability to set clear technical direction while remaining flexible and adaptive in a rapidly evolving problem space (e.g., AI-enabled product development).
• Demonstrated experience partnering with product leaders and stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into actionable technical plans and measurable delivered results.
• Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent, with a track record of building strong engineering culture and effective feedback mechanisms.
• Practical cloud-native experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on AWS.
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level, including contributing to production-grade services, debugging complex issues, and setting engineering standards through exemplars.
• Experience building AI-assisted and AI-native software systems, including LLM integration patterns, tool/skill design, retrieval/context enrichment, and agentic workflow orchestration.
• Experience operating distributed systems in AWS (e.g., compute, storage, messaging, observability), with a track record of reliability and cost-aware scaling
• Experience balancing delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives while managing dependencies across teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience with cloud-native DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), and automated testing in distributed environments.

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan, We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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