Senior Engineering Leader – AI-Driven Platform

Total Expert Inc.; Saint Louis Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Total Expert is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for delivering value to customers. You will collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to set direction and drive architectural decisions in a scale‑up environment.

This hands-on leader will coach engineers, champion Agile practices, and promote AI-assisted development tooling. Strong background in distributed microservices and PHP/C#/Java is preferred, with AWS and relational databases

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a team-based event-driven distributed microservices environment.
• 5+ years managing a software team and providing technical direction.
• Experience leading de-monolithing to distributed architectures.
• Hands-on with PHP, C#, Java.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code, Copilot) and integrating AI into engineering workflows.
• Experience with AWS services (RDS, EC2) and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Set priorities with Product and Engineering leaders and provide technical direction.
• Participate in architectural discussions and design reviews with hands-on input.
• Coach team members on problem analysis, estimation, software design, development, and testing in Agile methods.
• Drive Agile processes with focus on quality and lean principles.
• Champion AI-assisted development within teams to boost productivity and quality.
• Support department-wide objectives and improve velocity and quality of software.
• Mentor team members and expand domain knowledge across Total Expert platform.

Skills

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Architectural design

Distributed systems

PHP

C#

Java

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Mentoring

AI tooling

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Total Expert is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for delivering value to customers. You will collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to set direction and drive architectural decisions in a scale‑up environment.

This hands-on leader will coach engineers, champion Agile practices, and promote AI-assisted development tooling. Strong background in distributed microservices and PHP/C#/Java is preferred, with AWS and relational databases