Manager, Engineering

Hello were Augeo we are a global leader in enterprise-level engagement and loyalty platform technology delivering compelling experiences and fostering meaningful connections for employees consumers members and channel partners across many industries and verticals. We serve hundreds of clients including 70 Fortune 500 companies representing millions of end users. We are thought leaders and disruptors who think differently and creatively built by entrepreneurs operators and innovators.

At Augeo were passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that values diversity and our sustainability initiatives. Everyone is welcome - our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you reach your full potential.

We work hard we play hard and most importantly we care to our core about our teams and each other. We over-communicate around while we navigate our new hybrid world.

Summary

An Augeo Software Development Manager is responsible for ensuring operational excellence at a platform this role you will oversee the development activities of one of our platform development teams manage sprint planning and provide mentorship while ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will be the overall team leader for one of our B2B SaaS platforms ensuring team cohesion velocity and overall quality. As such youll have an opportunity to make your mark when it comes to how your team is structured what processes and technologies your team will use and generally be the glue that holds your teams together. Youll lead by example in leveraging AI coding assistants and building automation agents establishing your team as a model for AI-enabled development practices that multiply productivity across the sum this role puts you at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and leadership where your decisions shape not just code but careers - perfect for those who dream big lead with both heart and mind and find joy in watching their team members grow into technical powerhouses.

At Augeo you will be trusted to draw upon your experiences to help align an entire software engineering function with the operational and strategic goals of the division. This position requires strong communication skills to interface with stakeholders across the organization alongside the ability to foster a culture of innovation and technical excellence. The successful candidate will champion AI adoption across their team ensuring every developer is proficient with modern AI development tools and actively identifying opportunities to automate manual workflows through custom AI agents. Youll focus on optimizing team productivity through both traditional engineering excellence and emerging AI capabilities maintaining code quality standards and developing talent to meet evolving business needs. The ideal candidate has a growth mindset and is open to being a continual learner who can understand business and technological needs while staying current with rapidly evolving AI capabilities and their practical applications in TypeScript/React/ development.

Who You Are

Innovator: Bring ideas to the table work hard tell your story and build new tech

Collaborator: Contribute to the team and help accomplish amazing things

Curious: Keep learning keep implementing and iterate

High-level Job Requirements

• Lead and improve high-performing AI-native engineering teams
• Champion AI-enabled development practices ensuring 100% team adoption of approved AI coding tools
• Design and deploy AI agents to automate repetitive workflows (code reviews testing documentation)
• Ensure compliance with our SOC2 Type 2 program and other security regulations.
• Own delivery of mission-critical features from conception to production
• Coach and mentor engineers in their technical and career growth
• Partner with Product to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Champion DevOps culture and continuous improvement
• Establish team standards and best practices for effective AI tool usage and prompt engineering
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Contribute to process improvement efforts at Augeo.
• Embrace Augeos CORE values - Collaborative Objective Responsive and Earnest in all areas.

Competencies

• Proven track record leading engineering teams ideally 4 years
• Experience with modern web technologies including React 18 and and data technologies including MongoDB and PostgreSQL
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants to improve personal and team productivity
• Passable understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills.
• Forward thinking on ways to improve product related challenges with an eye toward delivering value to the end user.
• Organized with the ability to work independently toward project driven deadlines in person or remote.
• Experience prioritizing initiatives based on internal and client business needs.

Desired Technical Skills

• Modern JavaScript/TypeScript development especially in the React and ecosystem
• AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot Cursor Claude or similar tools)
• LLM API integration (OpenAI Anthropic Claude AWS Bedrock)
• AI agent development and workflow automation
• Cloud platforms (AWS as a priority)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability and monitoring
• API design and microservices
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong verbal and written skills.

Education and Experience

• Four-year college degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Senior-level experience within a technology team including previous managerial experience.
• Experience implementing AI development tools across engineering teams with measurable productivity improvements
• Microsoft Office proficiency required.
• Experience working in an Agile-based environment.
• Experience in a SOC 2 Type II certified environment.
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence.
• Understanding of and discipline to follow rigorous IT data and systems policies.
• Ability to work on multiple assignments and achieve objectives and deadlines.

Location

Twin Cities Area MN or Remote

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and smartphones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day although occasional out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.

Benefits of joining team Augeo

• We offer Medical Dental and Vision coverage with additional perks through third party vendors offering more virtual and in person care at your fingertips (must be in select locations)
• We offer paid Long-Term disability and Life Insurance
• HSA/FSA plans
• We offer varying voluntary benefits such as critical hospital pet coverage and much more
• Employee benefit education campaigns and wellness opportunities
• 401k retirement matching and financial planning resources
• Education reimbursement
• Several EAP resources
• 13 paid holidays and PTO time
• Rewards incentives and gamification for birthdays Work-averserys professional and personal milestones company involvement and kudos
• Employee referral bonuses
• Employee group opportunities
• Fun casual and flexible working environment that embraces the hybrid workstyle
• Career growth opportunities
• Summer internship program