Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise

Role overview

Lead the engineering work that adapts software for enterprise customers, balancing urgent deal needs with product priorities and long-term maintainability. You’ll manage and develop backend, full-stack, and forward-deployed engineers while owning the plan for what the team builds, prototypes, and defers. The role combines technical leadership, delivery planning, customer-facing collaboration, and hands-on judgment.

Responsibilities

- Turn customer requests and product bets into a prioritized engineering plan with owners, milestones, and risks. - Work with sales on prospective and active enterprise deals, assessing feasibility, effort, integrations, and technical review needs. - Lead time-boxed prototypes and proofs of concept; decide which should become production work or reusable product capabilities. - Coach, grow, and hire engineers, setting clear expectations while keeping processes practical. - Coordinate dependencies across engineering teams and surface delivery blockers early. - Review important designs and code, prototype when useful, and contribute to difficult technical decisions. - Partner with product, design, and customer success to shape work and feed deployment learnings into the core product. - Apply coding agents and automated review where they improve engineering speed or quality.

Requirements

- At least five years of software development experience, including technical leadership in a fast-moving environment. - Experience leading engineers and delivering production software. - Experience working with sales or customer-facing teams on enterprise scoping, demos, integrations, technical diligence, security, or procurement reviews. - Strong system design and backend or full-stack skills. - Sound judgment in prioritizing requests, explaining trade-offs, and constructively pushing back when needed. - Ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into focused plans and shipped outcomes. - Regular use of coding agents or similar AI tools, with concrete examples of their impact. - Clear communication across engineering, sales, product, and customer groups.

Nice to have

Experience with enterprise SaaS deployments, integrations, forward-deployed or solutions engineering, security and compliance, LLM products, or rapid prototyping for prospective customers.