Software Development Manager - Platform

American Innovations, Ltd.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401k matching

Paid family leave

Life and disability insurance

Collaborative environment

Job summary

American Innovations, Ltd. is seeking a leadership-spirited engineer to guide and scale our platform engineering team in Austin. You will shape the product roadmap, mentor engineers, and champion AI-driven development across our cloud-native stack.

You’ll oversee 4–6 engineers, ensure secure, scalable solutions, and collaborate with product managers, security, and ops to align with strategic roadmaps. A strong background in .NET, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent.
• 5 years as a solution architect, tech lead, or team lead.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• 3+ years of experience directing technology direction, execution, and application support.
• 2+ years of agile transformation.
• Background in Computer Science or related degree preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with AI-powered development tools and practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform team's product roadmap by gathering requirements from internal development teams and driving adoption.
• Mentor and guide the engineering staff and oversee a 4–6 person team delivering to roadmaps.
• Ensure craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, scalability, and observability of platforms and solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

People management

Cloud-native

AI tooling

Azure

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

React/Angular

C#/.NET

Observability

Microservices

Security in cloud

Dev platforms

IAM

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Datadog

Grafana

Dynatrace

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description

Are you looking for a new Leadership role? Are you looking to provide production support for mission critical applications? If the answer is yes, then we need to talk!

About Us

American Innovations is a technology leader providing critical software and services that supports our nation’s most important infrastructure in the energy space. We do this by providing a wide range of leading-edge technology solutions spanning across our Mobile edge computing, IoT and SaaS platforms.

What you will be doing

• A highly influential role that can truly help drive the business forward from a technical perspective and provide wide exposure across all American Innovations product lines.
• While your primary responsibility will be managing, mentoring, and guiding the platform engineering team, you’ll periodically support hands‑on development efforts—especially for prototypes or non‑critical‑path projects.
• You will ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, scalability and observability of solutions developed by the teams and third‑party providers.
• Champion and lead the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies throughout the platform team’s development lifecycle—including coding, planning, designing, architecting, and documentation—to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation
• You will engage in mentoring and guiding the professional development of American Innovations technical staff, as well as identify and recommend opportunities for developing product functional and technical strategies for your domain. This will include the development of actionable short and long‑term product roadmaps, by partnering with business leaders, product managers, systems architects, Security Operations, Support and more experienced engineers.
• You will also make decisions in resolving design challenges, create and oversee strategic product design from the engineering perspective in addition to overseeing an engineering team of 4‑6 ensuring the delivery of commitments aligned to our engineering roadmaps.
• Be an experienced Engineer with a technical background focused on architecting, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable cross‑platform cloud‑native applications using .NET.
• We are always looking at ways of improving how we work; therefore, you’ll be an innovative thinker with real attention to detail and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Be a supportive team player, with the ability to build effective working relationships with individuals across varying locations, and level of technical aptitude.

Key Responsibilities will include

• Own the platform team’s product roadmap by gathering requirements from internal development teams, prioritizing enhancements, and driving adoption and satisfaction across the organization
• Apply knowledge of standards, policies, best practice and organizational structure so that you can work both independently and collaboratively within your team and with key stakeholders.
• Promote and integrate the use of AI‑powered tools and methodologies in daily engineering activities, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement across development, operations, and internal collaboration
• Provide informal guidance and share knowledge with colleagues to enable them to contribute to the team’s objectives.
• Ensure the quality of tasks, deliverables, services and information provided by your team – through the quality of your own work and the support you provide to others - to ensure that your team delivers high‑quality, maintainable software which adheres to American Innovations standards and policies.
• Support the evaluation and resolution of technical challenges and blockers to minimize their impact on the team’s delivery and/or supported products.
• Identify and support improvements and innovation in technologies/practices within your team that would benefit the business, e.g. efficiency in the software development process or improved customer experience.

What we can offer you

• Competitive Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Company Provided Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Family Leave
• Matching 401k
• Supportive and collaborative environments
• A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment.

Requirements

What you need to succeed

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through experience
• 5 years of experience as a solution architect, tech lead or team lead
• 3+ years of people management experience
• 3+ years of experience with responsibility for technology direction, execution, and application support
• 2+ years of experience with agile transformation
• Background Computer Science or Equivalent Engineering Degree desired
• Advanced proficiency with artificial intelligence‑powered software development tools and practices (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, AI/ML‑based code review & analysis, AI planning/design tools), with a proven track record of advocating for and enabling their adoption within engineering organizations
• Experience working in a cloud‑native environment
• Experience with React, Angular or similar technology a plus
• Strong proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc)
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying .NET applications in Azure cloud environments
• Experience working with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc)
• Experience deploying software to a containerized environment (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture, service scalability and performance optimization
• Experience designing secure solutions or working in regulated cloud environments
• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms or enabling developer self‑service is a strong plus
• Experience with IAM technologies a plus