Engineering Manager - Enterprise AI Platform

Ascensus; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise AI Platform in the United States to lead a cross-functional team building and operating production-grade AI-enabled software. You will grow engineering talent, shape a high-performance culture, and drive delivery while staying technically engaged with the codebase.

You will coach engineers, SDETs, DevOps, and support engineers, partner with product and architecture leaders, and help evolve the operating model for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering or related technical experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, team leadership, people leadership, or engineering management experience.
• Experience coaching software engineers, SDETs, DevOps, or support engineers.
• Ability and willingness to stay technically engaged with the team’s codebase, architecture, development workflow, and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including clean code, source control, unit testing, CI/CD, design patterns, refactoring, maintainability, and production support.
• Experience working with software delivery teams that include Software Engineers, SDETs, DevOps, Support, and Quality Engineers.
• Experience supporting production software systems, including troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, or operational improvement.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and modern engineering team workflows.
• Ability to develop associates through coaching, feedback, goal setting, and performance conversations.
• Ability to create a high-performance team environment built on ownership, accountability, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience participating in hiring, interviewing, candidate evaluation, or team growth activities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop engineering talent.
• Create a high-performance team culture.
• Support delivery of enterprise AI platform capabilities.
• Improve engineering practices across software development, testing, DevOps, support, and operations.
• Partner with product, architecture, AI, business, and technology leaders.
• Help the team move quickly while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Occasionally contribute hands-on to implementation, debugging, automation, or code reviews when needed.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

People leadership

Coaching

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Azure DevOps

Job description

Ascensus is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise AI Platform in the United States to lead a cross-functional team building and operating production-grade AI-enabled software. You will grow engineering talent, shape a high-performance culture, and drive delivery while staying technically engaged with the codebase.

You will coach engineers, SDETs, DevOps, and support engineers, partner with product and architecture leaders, and help evolve the operating model for