Manager, Software Engineering

Role Overview

Hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and transform a critical product engineering team responsible for a mature revenue-generating platform. The role owns the full modernization roadmap while also standing up the SDLC/CI-CD practices and improving production stability.

Responsibilities

Platform Modernization

• Lead migration from legacy Java/Spring (non-Boot) to modern Spring Boot microservices.
• Define modular service boundaries, externalized configuration, and modern dependency management.
• Refactor business logic currently embedded in SQL Server stored procedures into well-tested application-layer code.
• Rebuild JSP front ends into a modern component-based UI stack (React preferred) and define API contracts between front end and back end.
• Upgrade the reporting system from legacy tooling to a modern, maintainable stack while preserving report fidelity.
• Set architectural guardrails (e.g., ADRs, tech radar, code-review standards) to keep modernization consistent.

Production Stability & Incident Management

• Triage and prioritize production defects; create a transparent burn-down plan with ownership and SLAs.
• Implement a structured incident-response process:
  • severity definitions
  • on-call rotation
  • blameless post-mortems
  • follow-through on corrective actions
• Drive root-cause analysis for recurring issues and ensure fixes are permanent.
• Run production readiness reviews to prevent regressions and reduce escaped defects.

SDLC, CI/CD & Engineering Practices

• Stand up a complete SDLC:
  • version-control workflow, PR reviews
  • automated build/test pipelines
  • artifact management, environment promotion
  • release management
• Mature CI/CD so every merge triggers automated unit/integration/smoke tests before production.
• Improve monitoring and observability (metrics, log aggregation, dashboards/alerts, and distributed tracing where appropriate).
• Add code-quality gates in the pipeline (static analysis, test coverage minimums, security scanning).
• Create runbooks, on-call procedures, and operational playbooks.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Manage, coach, and grow software engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide timely feedback.