Senior Manager, Software Engineer

HITT Contracting Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Health coverage

401(k) match

Wellness program

Paid holidays

Job summary

HITT Contracting Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead AI-native development on real-world jobsite software. You will architect first-in-kind platforms, build with AI coding agents, and define patterns that scale across teams and projects.

You will recruit and mentor engineers, creating robust tooling, templates, and libraries to raise the entire practice’s technical bar, while delivering fast, reliable software for field environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including staff/principal level responsibilities.
• Expert, hands-on fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development tools and practices.
• Track record of shipping production software with modern stacks and CI/CD.
• Mentoring and upskilling engineers; introducing new tools and practices.
• Strong architectural judgment across rapid prototyping to production systems.
• Excellent communication for non-technical partners.
• Experience building software for field-based or operations environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build AI-native applications and agentic workflows end to end.
• Define patterns for agentic development, orchestration, and tool integrations.
• Establish testing, observability, and security practices for AI-enabled software.
• Prototype quickly, then harden into reliable products for jobsites and offices.
• Mentor engineers and help recruit skilled team members.
• Lead lean, agile teams and collaborate with project teams and field staff.
• Communicate architectural decisions clearly to engineers and executives.

Skills

AI-assisted development

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Tool integrations

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Evaluation

Coding agents

Modern stacks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Job description

Every day, our team members do amazing things in pursuit of our shared purpose to build trust with our clients, partners, subcontractors, and teammates. No matter your background, education, or career path, if you share our vision to create extraordinary experiences, you belong at HITT.

Senior Manager, Software Engineer

Job Description:

HITT is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a founding technical leaderofits new agentic engineering practice. This is a hands-on role for a builder at the top of their craft: an engineer who works fluently with the latest AI development tools and coding agents, has strong, tested opinions about how AI changes the software development lifecycle, and wants to define those patterns from a blank page rather than inherit them.

Reporting to theHeadof Software Engineering, the Principal Software Engineer sets the technical direction for how software gets built at HITT — architecting the practice’s first AI-native applications, establishing the platform and paved-road tooling every team will use, and writing production code every day alongside AI coding agents. The software this role ships must earn its place on real jobsites: fast, reliable, and usable in high-velocity, decentralized field environments.

Beyond building, this rolemultipliesothers. The Principal Software Engineer will help recruit engineers into a lean, agile, AI-augmented team and will train HITT’s existing developers in AI-enabled methods — through pairing, code review, workshops, and reference implementations — raising the technical bar for the entire practice.

Responsibilities

Agentic Development & Technical Leadership

• Architect and build HITT’s first AI-native applications and agentic workflows end to end, writing production code daily alongside AI coding agents

• Define the technical patterns for agentic development at HITT, including agent orchestration, prompt and context engineering, tool and API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and human-in-the-loop review

• Establish evaluation, testing, and observability practices that make AI-assisted software trustworthy, secure, and maintainable

• Prototype rapidly to prove value, then harden the winners into reliable products adopted across jobsites and offices

Platform, Tooling & Standards

• Stand up the engineering platform from scratch: repositories, CI/CD pipelines, environments, model access, guardrails, and the AI development toolchain used by every team

• Create paved-road templates, reference implementations, and internal libraries that make the right way theeasy way

• Set and continuously raise the bar for code quality, security, and performance across the practice, in alignment with HITT’s zero trust cybersecurity strategy

• Evaluate emerging AI development tools, models, and frameworks, recommending adoption with clear-eyed assessments of capability and risk

Mentorship & Enablement

• Train and coach HITT’s existing developers in AI-enabled development methods through pairing, code review, workshops, and internal documentation

• Help recruit engineers to theorganization,interviewfor craft, judgment, and fluency with modern AI-assisted workflows

• Model a culture of experimentation — fail fast and pivot — while managing risk responsibly

Delivery & Collaboration

• Work in lean, agile teams built on small batches, fast feedback, and continuous delivery

• Partner directly with project teams, field staff, and corporate functions to understand problems firsthand and deliver software that works where execution happens in real time

• Communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and executives, providing transparency on progress, quality, and value delivered

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experienceoperatingat a staff or principal level and setting technical direction beyond a single team

• Expert, hands-on fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development, including coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool and API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation

• Track recordof shipping production software with modern stacks: cloud-native services, APIs, web and mobile applications, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and upskill other engineers, and to introduce new tools and practices into an existing organization

• Strong architectural judgment, with the range to move between rapid prototyping and hardened production systems

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics clear to non-technical partners

• Experience building software for field-based or operational users, or in construction, engineering, or manufacturing environments, is a plus

In accordance with Virginia Senate Bill 215 (SB 215), the base salary range for this position is:

$120,000.00 - $175,000.00

Compensation in other cities and states may vary. HITT Contracting offers a competitive total benefits and compensation package including performance-based bonuses, premium health care coverage including vision and dental, employer-matched 401(k), wellness reimbursement program, paid holidays and time-off, and other voluntary benefits and leave types. The determination of salary is based on the candidate’s individual professional experience, qualifications, education, skills, and training.

_ HITT Contracting is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring and developing the most qualified individuals based on job-related experience, skills, and merit. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We value a respectful, inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. HITT Contracting maintains a drug-free workplace, consistent with applicable local, state, and federal laws. _