Senior Software Engineering Manager

Chicago, Dallas, Houston, or New York | Hybrid | Full-time, direct hire

Chicago $148,200 to $211,200;
Dallas $141,400 to $201,600;
Houston $141,400 to $201,600;
New York $161,600 to $230,400

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.

This role is technical leadership first, with people management alongside it. You'll shape the architecture of an event-driven Azure platform, lead .NET 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 you'll also help define how the team is structured and operates as it grows.

• Design and evolve a distributed platform on Azure: containerized services, asynchronous messaging, PostgreSQL, Redis, and blob storage
• Lead backend development in modern .NET (ASP.NET Core APIs, Entity Framework Core, CQRS-style patterns) and set the bar in code reviews
• Own and improve multi-stage Azure Dev Ops 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

• 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 with .NET, 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
• Bachelor's 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

• 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# and .NET 8+, Type Script and Node.js, Bash or Power Shell
• 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