AI-Native Software Engineering Manager

Exostar; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Exostar seeks an engineering leader who writes production code, mentors engineers, and delivers on roadmap priorities. You will manage a software team focusing on identity, credentialing, and supply chain security, while modeling AI-native development practices with Claude Code and Copilot.

You’ll collaborate with product, architecture, and platform peers, operating in a FedRAMP Moderate / CMMC Level 2 environment serving defense primes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership capacity
• Hands-on daily user of AI coding tools — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent
• Comfortable conducting meaningful PR reviews and writing production code when needed
• Cloud-native engineering experience on Azure or AWS, microservices, containerization, CI/CD, IaC
• Strong written and verbal communication in cross-functional planning sessions

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers building production features across identity, credentialing, and supply chain security platforms
• Own the technical quality of the team’s output: architecture decisions, PR reviews, code quality, production reliability
• Drive sprint execution: planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, delivery against milestones
• Identify and resolve blockers; escalate when needed but own outcomes
• Establish and maintain engineering metrics: deployment frequency, change failure rate, cycle time, defect escape rate
• Model AI-native development and drive adoption across the team; coach skeptics and measure impact
• Partner with product managers to translate roadmap priorities into engineering scope
• Hire, develop, and manage talent; maintain a high-performing team
• Ensure team ownership and accountability across end-to-end delivery

Skills

Leadership

AI tooling adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical mentoring

Communication

Code reviews

DevOps/CI/CD

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

C#/.NET

Python

TypeScript

Angular

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Exostar seeks an engineering leader who writes production code, mentors engineers, and delivers on roadmap priorities. You will manage a software team focusing on identity, credentialing, and supply chain security, while modeling AI-native development practices with Claude Code and Copilot.

You’ll collaborate with product, architecture, and platform peers, operating in a FedRAMP Moderate / CMMC Level 2 environment serving defense primes.