Remote Senior Manager, Enterprise App & API Architecture

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking a Senior Manager, Application Development to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based solutions in a fully remote capacity.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with engineering management, guiding a team of engineers and collaborating with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to drive modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering/application development experience.
• 5+ years of technical leadership and/or engineering management experience.
• Strong hands-on architecture and solution design experience.
• Strong development background with Java and Spring Boot.
• Extensive experience with REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on AWS.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed application architectures.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to lead complex technical programs from architecture/design through execution.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and modern software engineering practices.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development, AI agents, or intelligent workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise applications and modernization initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java, APIs, microservices, AWS, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Develop high-level and low-level solution designs and ensure successful technical implementation.
• Lead and mentor a team of approximately 5-7 engineering resources.
• Drive projects and larger technical initiatives from design through production delivery.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Lead development of cloud applications using modern AWS architecture patterns.
• Drive adoption of microservices, event-driven architecture, reusable services, and API-first design.
• Oversee enterprise API and integration design, development, security, and governance.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted development tools and AI-powered workflows.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, and observability best practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Java & Spring Boot

REST APIs & microservices

AWS cloud

Event-driven architecture

SQL/NoSQL databases

Distributed teams

Agile delivery

AI-assisted development

Tools

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking a Senior Manager, Application Development to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based solutions in a fully remote capacity.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with engineering management, guiding a team of engineers and collaborating with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to drive modernization initiatives.