Engineering Manager – AI-Driven Cloud Modernization

Recruit22 LLC.; Willingboro Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

Company-paid Life Insurance

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

401(k) with automatic enrollment

Paid Holidays

PTO beginning on day one

Additional voluntary benefit offerings

Job summary

Recruit22 is partnering with a leading organization to identify an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team responsible for designing, building, and modernizing enterprise applications. This role combines people leadership, software delivery, technical direction, cloud modernization, and AI innovation.

The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background and has transitioned into leadership while remaining technically credible and engaged with architecture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading or managing software engineering teams.
• Strong background building and supporting large-scale enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Own engineering delivery, quality, execution, and technical outcomes.
• Partner with product, business, architecture, and technology leaders to translate business needs into scalable software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native development.
• Drive modernization initiatives utilizing Microsoft Azure.
• Guide the adoption of AI-powered development capabilities, LLM integrations, agents, and automation.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, and reliability.
• Conduct technical and architecture reviews while ensuring teams follow established engineering standards.
• Manage priorities, technical dependencies, delivery risks, and resource allocation.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance development, and career growth for engineers.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Agile

Cloud modernization

AI & ml familiarity

Architecture & design

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Software

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

C# / .NET Core

Java

Python

Go

React.js

Next.js

TypeScript

Azure DevOps

Terraform / IaC

Kubernetes

Azure Functions

Cosmos DB

Azure Service Bus

Job description

Recruit22 is partnering with a leading organization to identify an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team responsible for designing, building, and modernizing enterprise applications. This role combines people leadership, software delivery, technical direction, cloud modernization, and AI innovation.

The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background and has transitioned into leadership while remaining technically credible and engaged with architecture