Senior Manager: Software Engineering
Senior Manager: Software Engineering
Role Overview Hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and reliable software systems. This role plays a key part in delivering complex solutions across digital channels, partner APIs, product platforms, and enterprise backend integrations.
The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in backend and/or mobile engineering, cloud-native architecture, and CI/CD practices. They contribute to architectural discussions, mentor junior engineers, and work cross-functionally with product, QA, DevOps, and platform teams.
Relevant Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including backend and mobile systems
- 3+ years leading engineering teams or squads in high-growth, high-availability environments
- Proven leadership building and scaling cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, with knowledge of performance profiling, OTA updates, and native module integration
- Strong backend development background in Java (Spring Boot), with experience designing RESTful APIs and handling secure authentication flows (OAuth2, JWT)
- Technical leadership in on-prem to Azure migrations, including DR-first architecture, blue-green deployment, and phased traffic cutovers
- Hands-on experience architecting cloud-native systems using Azure services (AKS, App Services, Azure PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis Cache, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway)
- Skilled in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), API gateway implementation, and breaking down legacy monoliths into distributed services
- Led design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows
- Familiar with observability tooling (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Sentry, Datadog)
- Introduced engineering governance practices: code reviews, linting, automated quality gates, documentation standards
- Experience coordinating with DevOps, QA, Security, and Product teams
- Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum practices
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Lead engineering execution across mobile and backend platforms during migration.
- Define and enforce architecture standards, design principles, and best practices.
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps, security, QA, and analytics teams.
- Mentor engineers, manage escalations, and own delivery across phases.
- Drive cross-functional alignment to ensure platform velocity and reliability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Master's degree or executive tech leadership programs (advantageous)
Technical Skills
- Backend: Java, .NET, Node.js
- Frontend: Angular, React.js
- Mobile: React Native, or Kotlin/Java, Swift
- Integration: REST/GraphQL APIs, Webhooks, Kafka, MQs
- Security: OAuth 2.0, JWT, RBAC, OWASP
- CI/CD & DevOps: Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Azure/AWS
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Firebase Crashlytics
- Database: Redis, PostgreSQL
Certifications (preferred, not mandatory)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (or equivalent)
- Scrum Master or Agile Leadership certification (preferred)
- Relevant CI/CD, DevOps, or Architecture certifications (TOGAF, CKA, Terraform Associate) — advantage
Benefits
Benefits of Working With Us
- Diverse Client Exposure across enterprise and high-growth organizations
- High-impact AI and data transformation projects
- Continuous learning and leadership development
- Flexible work arrangements
- Consulting-driven, collaborative environment
- Competitive compensation
- Strong focus on work-life balance
- Inclusive, merit-based culture