Hands-On AI Platform Engineering Manager

Ascensus; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid-Time-Off

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Enterprise AI Platform to lead a cross-functional team responsible for building, operating, and improving production-grade AI-enabled software.

The ideal candidate balances people leadership, technical judgment, and delivery execution while staying close to code, architecture, and operations to drive fast, high-quality results.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience.
• Experience coaching software engineers, SDETs, DevOps engineers, or support engineers.
• Ability to stay technically engaged with codebase and tooling, with occasional hands-on contributions.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices: clean code, version control, unit tests, CI/CD, design patterns, refactoring, production support.
• Experience working with cross-functional delivery teams including engineers, SDETs, DevOps, and QA.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop engineering talent.
• Create a high-performance team culture.
• Support delivery of enterprise AI platform capabilities.
• Improve engineering practices across development, testing, DevOps, 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, or code reviews.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Enterprise AI Platform to lead a cross-functional team responsible for building, operating, and improving production-grade AI-enabled software.

The ideal candidate balances people leadership, technical judgment, and delivery execution while staying close to code, architecture, and operations to drive fast, high-quality results.