Head of Software Engineering in Aurora, Colorado at E-470 Public Highway Authority (CO)

The Head of Software Engineering leads a team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable software systems. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and product delivery, ensuring teams deliver high-quality solutions that support millions or billions of users. The manager partners with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions while maintaining strong engineering standards.

• The Head of SEM will provide technical guidance, mentor engineers, define roadmap for the team, and encourage the teams to embrace advanced technology and innovation
• Strong leadership and presence to drive multiple initiatives in parallel, focusing on delivering customer value, building strong teams, making sound architectural decisions, and consistently delivering results.
• Building and leading high-performing engineering teams
  • Hiring and developing top engineering talent
  • Coaching engineers and senior engineers
  • Conducting performance reviews and career development
  • Creating an inclusive and high-ownership engineering culture
  • Mentoring tech leads and future leaders
  • Managing team growth and organizational planning
• Technical Leadership
  • Defining technical architecture and long-term system design
  • Reviewing design documents and code
  • Driving engineering best practices
  • Ensuring systems meet scalability, reliability, and security standards
  • Managing technical debt and modernization
  • Supporting incident management and reliability improvements
• Executing engineering roadmaps
  • Translating product goals into engineering plans
  • Managing sprint execution and milestones
  • Removing blockers for engineers
  • Managing cross-team dependencies
  • Ensuring projects are delivered on time and with quality

• 10–15+ years of software engineering experience, including:
  • 8+ years managing engineers
  • Experience designing distributed systems
  • Experience delivering large-scale production systems
• Solid experience in building and maintain cross-functional collaboration with partner teams such as Product Managers, Delivery Managers/Leads, Data Analytics and Data Scientists, Security teams, Platform / Infrastructure teams.
• Strong understanding of Application Design, Platform Engineering, and E2E Observability
• Ability to review code as needed

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)