Internal Application Engineering Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Directly manage a team of engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
• Provide hands-on coaching and mentorship to develop technical skills, problem-solving ability, and overall effectiveness
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement across the team
• Own delivery of application, integration, and platform-related solutions across a range of technologies
• Ensure consistent and predictable delivery through effective planning, prioritization, and execution
• Own overall product quality, maintainability, and consistency across applications and services
• Establish and reinforce practices such as work reviews, development standards, and automated testing
• Guide engineers in implementing modular, maintainable, and well-structured solutions appropriate to the problem space
• Remain engaged in technical decision-making to support effective implementation and delivery
• Own the development lifecycle from inception through release, including CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Establish reliable workflows for validation, automated testing, and deployment across environments
• Ensure deployments to test and production environments are repeatable, low-risk, and well understood by the team
• Improve delivery workflows to reduce manual effort and increase confidence in releases
• Expand team capability across frameworks, platforms, and cloud-based solutions aligned to business needs
• Introduce new technologies incrementally through practical application within active development efforts
• Encourage thoughtful evaluation of tools and approaches, selecting appropriate solutions based on requirements and constraints
• Ensure applications and services are built with appropriate logging, metrics, and visibility into system behavior
• Promote practices that improve system reliability, performance, and diagnosability
• Partner with architecture and operations teams to align development, integration, and runtime practices
• Help define and reinforce clear ownership boundaries across application engineering, platform, and operations teams

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in software or application engineering roles
• 2+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams, including direct people management
• Experience delivering and supporting production applications or services
• Experience with modern development practices including code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in cross-functional technology environments
• Experience working across multiple frameworks, platforms, or development ecosystems
• Experience improving development workflows, including testing practices, deployment processes, and release management
• Experience with cloud platforms or integrating applications with cloud service, particularly Microsoft Azure
• Experience working across a mix of application development, platform capabilities, and integrated systems
• Experience mentoring and developing early-career engineers or mixed-skill teams

Skills & Abilities

• Leadership and mentorship with the ability to develop engineers and build a high-performing team
• Strong technical judgment and ability to guide engineering decisions and practices
• Delivery ownership with a focus on execution, quality, and outcomes
• Systems thinking with an understanding of application, platform, and infrastructure interactions
• Process improvement mindset with the ability to refine development workflows and pipelines
• Adaptability across frameworks, tools, and evolving technologies
• Collaboration across architecture, operations, and business stakeholders
• Clear communication of expectations, priorities, and technical direction