MERN Stack Job Bethesda area,Maryland USA,Software Development

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with a strong MERN stack background and proven engineering leadership experience. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end software delivery, drive application modernization, and build high-performing engineering teams while ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end software delivery across planning, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
Build, mentor, and manage engineering teams, including technical leads and senior engineers.
Partner with solution architects to ensure alignment with architecture standards and engineering best practices.
Drive application modernization using cloud-native technologies, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, and Dev Sec Ops .
Oversee delivery plans, priorities, dependencies, risks, technical debt, and engineering blockers.
Ensure code quality, application security, performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
Collaborate with Business, Architecture, Platform, SRE, Security, and cross-functional engineering teams.
Lead production readiness and legacy-to-modern platform migration initiatives.
Communicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and engineering health to stakeholders.
Promote engineering excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar software engineering leadership role.
Strong technical background in the MERN stack:
MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
Experience leading application modernization and complex, cross-team software delivery.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and modern software architecture.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Dev Ops, and Dev Sec Ops practices.
Demonstrated people management, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio.
Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
Familiarity with database change management tools such as Liquibase.
Experience with deployment automation, production operations, SRE, and observability practices.
Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and SDD (Specification-Driven Development) practices.
Experience driving cloud-native engineering transformation and legacy modernization.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.