Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

Groundworks Technology Team is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team of software engineers in delivering high-powered, cutting-edge web and native mobile applications. You will collaborate with Product Owners, vendors, and business stakeholders to architect and create enterprise-level web and native mobile applications that are both scalable and robust. The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with full-stack technical knowledge and the ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership
  • Lead, coach, and develop one or more software engineering teams responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality digital products and platforms.
  • Foster a high-performance engineering culture centered on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Establish clear goals, career development plans, and performance expectations for team members.
  • Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.
• Delivery Management
  • Own engineering execution and delivery for strategic initiatives across web, mobile, customer experience, and enterprise platforms.
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, QA, and business stakeholders to translate product roadmaps into executable engineering plans.
  • Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery through Agile planning, sprint execution, backlog management, and release coordination.
  • Proactively identify delivery risks, remove impediments, and drive resolution of technical and organizational issues.
• Technical Leadership
  • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while empowering engineering teams to make sound technical decisions.
  • Drive adoption of modern software engineering practices including modular architecture, API-first design, cloud-native development, automated testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and observability.
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Lead technical design reviews and support modernization initiatives that reduce technical debt and improve platform reliability.
• Agile & Engineering Excellence
  • Champion Agile software development methodologies and engineering best practices.
  • Coach teams on effective backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and iterative delivery.
  • Promote a culture of software craftsmanship, code quality, peer reviews, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
  • Drive engineering productivity through automation, metrics, and continuous process improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Build strong partnerships across Product, UX, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize work based on customer value, business objectives, technical dependencies, and organizational priorities.
  • Communicate engineering progress, delivery risks, technical decisions, and roadmap updates to leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence
  • Ensure production systems meet expectations for availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational support.
  • Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement following production events.
  • Establish and monitor engineering KPIs including delivery predictability, quality, reliability, technical debt, deployment frequency, and team health.
• People Leadership
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
  • Mentor engineering managers, technical leads, and individual contributors.
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe engineering culture.
  • Support succession planning and organizational growth through talent development and leadership coaching.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a relevant field of study (preferred).
• Leadership & Management:
  • 5+ years of experience leading high-performing software engineering teams in Agile environments.
  • Demonstrated success managing cross-functional engineering teams delivering customer-facing web, mobile, eCommerce, and enterprise applications.
  • Proven ability to build, coach, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering talent.
  • Strong experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing delivery commitments with technical excellence.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across Product, Architecture, UX, Operations, Security, and executive leadership.
  • Experience driving organizational change, continuous improvement, and engineering best practices.
• Technical Leadership:
  • Strong software engineering background with experience across modern front-end, back-end, API, cloud-native, and mobile technologies.
  • Experience leading engineering teams supporting customer-facing digital platforms, eCommerce solutions, mobile applications, customer experience platforms, and Field Service Management (FSM) systems.
  • Working knowledge of modern front-end technologies including Angular, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS.
  • Understanding of modern back-end development, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and data integration patterns.
  • Experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Slack, and modern DevOps toolchains.
  • Experience leading teams practicing CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing.
  • Familiarity with secure software development practices, application security, and OWASP principles.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Knowledge of application performance optimization, observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering.
  • Understanding of AI-assisted software development, engineering productivity tools, and modern software delivery practices is a plus.

Working Conditions

• Full-time position based at Groundworks’ corporate office in Irving, Texas.
• Collaborative, fast-paced work environment requiring adaptability and effective time management.
• Occasional travel may be required for team meetings, training, or industry conferences.

Pay

This role has a base salary range between $155,000 and $195,000. Salary is based on candidate experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Employee company ownership opportunities (equity)
• Industry-leading training programs
• Leadership development and career growth tracks
• Comprehensive and affordable benefits package
• Top workplace with an award-winning culture