Role Title: Manager Software Engineering
San Diego, CA (onsite)
Experience: 10 years | Management/Leadership: 3 years
Perm Role
Role Overview
Client is seeking a hands-on Manager of Software Engineering to lead a team of engineers and drive the design, development, delivery, and continuous improvement of enterprise and internal-facing applications. The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with hands-on expertise in modern application development, cloud, APIs, integrations, and AI-assisted software engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.
- Drive application architecture, technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
- Establish engineering standards for coding, code reviews, testing, security, documentation, Git, and CI/CD.
- Partner with Product, Data, Security, Infrastructure, QA, and business teams to deliver scalable solutions.
- Own application reliability, performance, technical debt, and operational readiness.
- Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Manage third-party engineering partners and distributed development teams.
- Champion AI-assisted development, including Claude Code and AI agents for coding, testing, documentation, debugging, refactoring, and automation.
- Establish appropriate governance, security, validation, and human-oversight practices for AI-generated code.
Required Skills
- 10 years of software development experience.
- 3 years in Engineering Management, Technical Lead, or people leadership.
- Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET/.NET Core, REST APIs, SQL Server, and Cloud platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, Agile, software architecture, design patterns, integrations, testing, and application security.
- Experience delivering and supporting enterprise-grade applications.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Ideal Profile: A hands-on engineering leader who can manage people, make architectural/technical decisions, and still engage deeply with engineering teams and modern AI-assisted development practices.
Metasys Technologies/NVISH is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.
