Manager, Software Engineering at Jobgether – United States

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Manager, Software Engineering in the United States.

This role is ideal for a strategic and hands-on engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation, team development, and operational excellence. The Manager, Software Engineering will lead a distributed team in delivering customer-facing, AI-enabled SaaS applications on AWS, supporting enterprise-scale users. This position involves guiding architecture decisions, ensuring reliability and security, and embedding a culture of ownership and accountability across engineering teams. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with Product and Design to turn complex business requirements into scalable, high-quality solutions. With responsibility for production health, incident management, and operational improvements, this role offers the chance to influence both technical strategy and team growth in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, web-based SaaS applications using modern microservices architectures.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, design and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

• Drive adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to enhance developer productivity and code quality.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Design to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Manage, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Own production health for team services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a “you build it, you run it” model.

• Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with enterprise SLAs and SLOs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.

• Proven track record delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.

• Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring).

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures.

• Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) and backend frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails or equivalent).

• Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.

• Experience operating in production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environments.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in Agile/Scrum settings.

• Preferred: Experience scaling SaaS platforms, exposure to regulated enterprise domains, and leveraging Generative AI tools in development workflows.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary range of $160,000–$200,000, with final offer based on experience, location, and qualifications.

• Flexible remote work environment.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous PTO program for rest and rejuvenation.

• Supportive leadership and professional growth opportunities.

• Collaborative, inclusive, and high-growth work culture.