Software Engineering Manager

Software engineering experience in backend, platform, distributed-system, or integration-focused environments, with strong systems architecture and technical design capabilities.

Experience directly managing or formally leading a software engineering team, including coaching, performance feedback, career development, and team-culture development.

Experience managing team priorities, capacity, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments while translating business, product, customer, and program requirements into executable plans.

Experience designing, building, or operating RESTful APIs, service-oriented or microservice architectures, event-driven systems, and resilient integration workflows.

Experience with Kotlin, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, and Typescript.

Experience working with external vendors, technology partners, customer engineering teams, and internal stakeholders to manage cross-team dependencies and deliver aligned solutions.

Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, observability, security, and production operations, paired with the judgment and communication skills to balance technical quality, delivery needs, team health, and long-term maintainability.

Active or prior TS/SCI clearance.

Experience integrating commercial, government, customer-provided, or vendor-managed software platforms.

Experience coordinating software delivery with third-party vendors that maintain separate roadmaps, release schedules, and engineering processes.

Experience supporting and deploying software within classified, aerospace, defense, national security, space situational awareness, or other mission-critical environments.

Experience managing geographically distributed or remote engineering teams and introducing structure and accountability in fast-moving, ambiguous environments without creating unnecessary blockers.

You care about both people and systems. You understand that successful integrations depend not only on well-designed APIs and reliable services, but also on clear ownership, aligned expectations, strong communication, and trusted working relationships.

You're a supportive and accountable people manager. You take the time to understand each engineer's strengths, goals, and development needs while setting clear expectations for performance and delivery.

You enjoy connecting products, teams, and organizations. You can move comfortably between a career-development conversation, a sprint-planning session, a vendor escalation, and a technical design review.

You are a self-starter and are always looking for ways to improve you, your team and organization.

You create clarity where there is ambiguity, help transform one-off integrations into reusable engineering patterns, and ensure the team delivers dependable software without losing sight of long-term maintainability.