Software Engineering Manager in Charlotte
Job Description
Software Engineering Manager
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Charlotte, NC Metro Area | Reports to CTO
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Lead Engineering at Scale — Where AI Meets Enterprise Impact
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Our client, a leading enterprise technology company managing a high-volume, 24x7 data platform for Fortune 500 clients across North America, is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to guide a development organization. This is a rare player-coach role: you'll mentor engineers through design reviews, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, and shape technical strategy alongside the CTO — all while unifying onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams into one high-performing organization.
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What You'll Do
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• Manage engineers (employees + consultants) across mobile, web, and back-end teams — hiring, coaching, and performance management
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• Partner with Project/Product leadership on resource planning, capacity, and delivery alignment
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• Champion AI-assisted development (agentic coding, AI code review, AI-generated tests) with clear guardrails
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• Own engineering standards: code quality, PR review, test coverage, and CI/CD gates
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• Guide architecture toward cloud- services (Azure Kubernetes Service)
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• Unite global teams with shared standards, overlap hours, and cross-location collaboration models
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• Partner on incident response, RCA loops, and SOC 2 compliance
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Must-Haves
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• 10+ years in software development, 3+ years leading 10+ engineers
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• Hands-on with .NET/C# plus progressive Front End and Mobile
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• Experience leading teams on high-availability, high-throughput, real-time platforms
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• Proven functional management in matrixed SaaS environments
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• Track record integrating onshore/nearshore/offshore teams
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• Strong Agile/Scrum and CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps or similar)
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• REST API and system integration experience
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• Practical use of AI coding tools with team-level governance
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• Strong SQL Server skills at scale
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Nice-to-Haves
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• Background in IoT or data-intensive B2B SaaS
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• Azure PaaS / AKS and containerization experience
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• Event streaming/caching (Kafka, Redis, Service Bus)
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• Geospatial/mapping API experience
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• SOC 2 or similar compliance experience
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• Legacy modernization without disrupting delivery
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Ready to Lead?
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If you thrive at the intersection of technical depth, people leadership, and AI-driven innovation, we want to hear from you. Apply now to help shape the future of a mission-critical enterprise platform.