Enter a job title or keyword

Senior Manager, Software Development

The Company

Job Location:

Dallas, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 148200 - 211200

Posted: 11 October 2026 (13 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 8 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Manager Software Development
Location: Chicago Dallas Houston or New York Hybrid Full-time direct hire
Base salary by office: Chicago $148200 to $211200; Dallas $141400 to $201600; Houston $141400 to $201600; New York $161600 to $230400

About the company
Our client is a firm with offices in Chicago Dallas Houston and New York building out an Azure-based automation platform and the engineering team behind it. The team is growing with a strong focus on mentorship and career growth.

About the role
This role is technical leadership first with people management alongside it. Youll shape the architecture of an event-driven Azure platform backend development and run a team of full-time engineers and contractors from early-career to lead level. Much of the work is net-new so youll also help define how the team is structured and operates as it grows.

What youll do

Design and evolve a distributed platform on Azure: containerized services asynchronous messaging PostgreSQL Redis and blob storage
Lead backend development in ( Core APIs Entity Framework Core CQRS-style patterns) and set the bar in code reviews
Own and improve multi-stage Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for infrastructure container builds and environment deployments
Improve platform performance cost and operational simplicity
Manage and mentor engineers grow their cloud skills and delegate so the team owns execution
Partner with senior leadership and serve as backup to your manager

What you bring

10 years in software engineering application development or IT including 6 years of hands-on software engineering with cloud-based applications
3 years directly managing and developing software engineering teams
Experience leading greenfield enterprise-grade application delivery or comparable large-scale work
Experience React and Azure or comparable technologies
Ability to mentor engineers on cloud-native patterns distributed systems and cloud architecture
A strong technical foundation with the judgment to delegate instead of becoming a bottleneck
Clear communication with senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience with demonstrable cloud architecture expertise
Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future

Nice to haves

6 years of cloud-native work on Azure; 3 years with Azure Container Apps AKS or similar orchestration
Production microservices and event-driven systems (Azure Service Bus Event Grid Event Hubs)
Modern C# 8 TypeScript and Bash or PowerShell
Docker multi-stage builds Azure Container Registry Bicep or Terraform and Azure networking and data services
Azure certifications (AZ-400 AZ-305 AZ-204 AZ-104) CSM or SAFe Agilist
Professional services background (legal financial services accounting or consulting) legal technology or document management and SOC 2 ISO 27001 or GDPR exposure
Experience leading a team of roughly 10 to 25 engineers