Software Engineering Senior Manager / AI forward

Motion Recruitment; Coppell (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead a 6–10 developer team building a customer operations platform for financial services. You will steer architecture, code reviews, and ticket resolution while driving a distributed team toward modernization with .NET microservices and Kafka, plus IAM/security improvements.

The role is remote hybrid with 3 onsite days in Minneapolis, MN or Coppell, TX, requiring strong communication and leadership to coordinate across

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing developers.
• Experience with authentication methods (SSO, MFA, IAM).
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of 6–10 developers.
• Guide the platform that handles customer relationships, data, and integrations.
• Lead code reviews and provide architecture/design input; step in to handle tickets when needed.
• Manage a distributed team and drive modernization initiatives (microservices, event-driven design, Kafka).

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Architecture insight

Code reviews

Tools

C# .NET

Kafka

IAM/Security

Job description

A SaaS company that provides customer operating systems for financial services organizations is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join their team. You'll oversee a team of 6-10 developers who are responsible for the platform that handles customer relationships, data, and integrations. The company is moving to invest heavily in modernization, AI-driven capabilities, and scaling. Ideal candidates have recent hands on and management experience. While you won't be coding day to day, you'll be expected to handle code reviews, provide insight in architecture and design, step in to handle tickets yourself, while prioritizing managing a distributed team. They're currently looking to expand .NET microservices and event-driven architecture, and implement Kafka across their platform. Experience in both is needed, and any experience in identity access management, MFA, SSO, and authentications is a big plus.

This role is remote hybrid, 3 days onsite in either Minneapolis, MN or Coppell, TX.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in software development
• Experience with C# .NET
• Experience with authentications, SSO, MFA, IAM, etc.
• 2+ years of experience managing developers
• Strong communication skills

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.