Senior Software Engineering Manager (AI & Cloud)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Option Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision

HSA (Health Savings Account)

FSA (Flexible Spending Accounts)

Life Insurance

Short‑Term Disability

Long‑Term Disability

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Total Expert is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide Product and Engineering in expanding and supporting the Total Expert platform. You will lead teams delivering customer value, participate in architectural decisions, and coach engineers in Agile practices.

Ideal candidates combine hands-on troubleshooting with strategic leadership, champion AI-assisted development, and drive quality through modern tooling and automated testing across a distributed microservices environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated depth in engaging in architectural conversations and design decisions.
• Experience leading teams through monolith deconstruction to distributed architectures.
• Hands-on in PHP, C#, or Java and operating within an event-driven microservices environment.
• Proven ability to implement automated unit testing and improve developer velocity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to set priorities and provide technical direction.
• Participate in architectural discussions and design reviews with hands-on input.
• Coach team members on analysis, estimation, software design, development and testing in Agile.
• Drive Agile processes with focus on quality and lean principles.
• Champion AI-assisted development practices and tooling to improve productivity and quality.
• Support department-wide objectives and process improvements across Engineering.
• Mentor team members and expand domain knowledge within the Total Expert platform.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Architecture discussions

Agile / Lean

PHP

C#

Java

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Quality engineering

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Total Expert is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide Product and Engineering in expanding and supporting the Total Expert platform. You will lead teams delivering customer value, participate in architectural decisions, and coach engineers in Agile practices.

Ideal candidates combine hands-on troubleshooting with strategic leadership, champion AI-assisted development, and drive quality through modern tooling and automated testing across a distributed microservices environment.