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