Software Engineering Manager - Frontend, Cloud & AI

Early Warning (Zelle); Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack engineering team building and supporting customer-facing web applications and backend services. You will drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and governance for cloud migrations and AI-assisted tooling adoption.

The role focuses on hands-on leadership, modern front-end engineering with React/TypeScript, secure APIs, and end-to-end delivery with Cloud/SRE practices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading full-stack engineering teams.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable backend services and APIs.
• Strong background migrating applications to cloud (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the team's applications including UI, backend services, integrations and data layers.
• Set front-end standards using React with TypeScript and shared component libraries.
• Guide secure, scalable backend services and APIs (REST and event-driven) with third-party integrations.
• Define integration approaches for identity and CRM platforms with loosely coupled designs.
• Make architecture decisions with ADRs, addressing build-versus-buy trade-offs.
• Review designs and code; stay hands-on to unblock engineers.
• Lead migration of applications to the cloud (AWS) including assessment, cutover and decommissioning.
• Define migration approach per workload balancing cost and impact.
• Design cloud-native architectures with IaC, containers, and multi-AZ resilience.
• Establish cloud operations: observability, FinOps, and shared security controls.
• Lead AI-assisted engineering adoption (Claude Code) including guardrails and governance.
• Coach engineers on prompts and workflows; share best practices across teams.
• Measure AI’s impact on delivery speed and quality, iterating practices accordingly.
• Translate product goals into a technical plan in collaboration with Product and UX.
• Drive CI/CD, testing automation, and release readiness.

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack engineering team building and supporting customer-facing web applications and backend services. You will drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and governance for cloud migrations and AI-assisted tooling adoption.

The role focuses on hands-on leadership, modern front-end engineering with React/TypeScript, secure APIs, and end-to-end delivery with Cloud/SRE practices.