Manager, Software Engineering

The Software Engineering Manager is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the development, modernization, integration, and support of custom business applications that enable critical operations across Hallmark Media. This role combines people leadership with direct technical involvement, guiding a team of software engineers while contributing to architecture, design reviews, troubleshooting, and strategic technology decisions.

The ideal candidate is a player-coach who can balance technical leadership, delivery execution, and team development while partnering closely with business stakeholders, project managers, infrastructure teams, information security, and external vendors. They bring experience across multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks and can help guide the organization's evolution from legacy technologies toward scalable, cloud-enabled solutions.

The salary range for this job is between $127,200-$175,400 annually. Salary rate will take into consideration several factors including location.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support activities.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making while developing team capabilities in cloud technologies, integrations, automation, AI, and modern engineering practices.

Software Engineering & Delivery

• Lead the development, support, and modernization of custom applications, APIs, and integrations, driving the transition from legacy systems to cloud‑ready, API‑first architectures.
• Reduce technical debt and architectural risk while evaluating and introducing technologies that improve scalability, maintainability, security, and business value.
• Partner with stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams to define integration strategies and ensure reliable, secure, and adaptable solutions.

Engineering Excellence, Dev Ops & SDLC Discipline

• Improve software delivery practices through strong source control, testing, CI/CD, documentation, release management, and code quality standards.
• Partner with Information Security, Architecture and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with security, governance, and operational requirements.
• Promote disciplined change management and support operational stability across the application portfolio.

Cross-Functional Partnership, Planning & Governance

• Partner with business leaders, PMO, project managers, analysts, and technology teams to prioritize and deliver solutions that support strategic objectives.
• Provide effort estimates, resource planning, technical roadmaps, status reporting, and risk management.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly apply automation and AI-enabled capabilities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, support efficiency, or business workflows.
• Evaluate AI-assisted development and workflow tools pragmatically, ensuring usage aligns with security, compliance, and governance expectations.
• Foster research and development initiatives by encouraging the exploration, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies that can create measurable business value.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including meaningful experience leading or mentoring software engineers in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated success leading custom application development and integration work supporting business-critical operations.
• Ability to evaluate and apply the appropriate technology stack based on business and technical requirements.
• Experience designing, developing, or modernizing applications using contemporary software development frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and modern programming…