Software Engineering Manager

Overview:

Newfold Digital is seeking for a technically strong and hands-on Engineering Manager who can lead high-performing engineering teams while continuing to provide strong technical direction. The role combines people leadership, architecture, engineering excellence, product delivery, and AI-first development practices.

The ideal candidate is a strong technology leader who can translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions, make sound architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive teams toward high-quality and predictable delivery.

A key expectation of this role is to champion AI-first software development, enabling engineering teams to leverage AI across the development lifecycle while maintaining high standards of quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.

WhatYou’llDo & HowYou’llMake Your Mark

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Provide strong technical leadership and direction across the engineering team, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex technical decisions.

• Design, develop, and scale complex, high-performance systems using appropriate architectural patterns for both horizontal and vertical scalability.

• Own and influence architectural decisions, technical strategy, technology choices, and engineering standards.

• Translate product and business requirements into clear technical plans, architecture, milestones, and execution strategies.

• Evaluate technical trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and time-to-market.

• Identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, automation, and technology adoption.

AI-First Engineering

• Establish and champion AI-first software development practices across the engineering organization.

• Drive the effective use of LLMs and AI-powered development tools across the software lifecycle — including requirements analysis, architecture, coding, code modernization, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and knowledge discovery.

• Establish engineering best practices for using AI while maintaining appropriate standards for code quality, security, privacy, reliability, and architectural integrity.

• Identify opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation to significantly improve developer productivity, engineering velocity, and software quality.

• Encourage experimentation with emerging AI technologies and help the team move successful experiments into reliable production solutions.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers.

• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous learning, technical excellence, and collaboration.

• Provide regular technical and career mentorship and help engineers grow into increasingly larger responsibilities.

• Participate in hiring, team building, performance management, and succession planning.

• Create an environment where engineers are empowered to make decisions while maintaining strong technical and delivery standards.

Engineering Excellence & Delivery

• Drive engineering teams toward predictable, high-quality delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality, reliability, and customer impact.

• Establish and continuously improve development practices around code quality, unit testing, automated testing, Git, CI/CD, code reviews, and release management.

• Work effectively within Agile/Scrum development processes and continuously improve team execution.

• Identify and remove technical, organizational, and process bottlenecks that impact engineering velocity.

• Establish appropriate metrics and mechanisms to improve engineering productivity, quality, reliability, and delivery predictability.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact products and capabilities.

• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery plans clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural and engineering investments.

• Take ownership of ambiguous and complex problems and drive them to resolution.

Technical Expertise

Strong experience with modern web and software engineering technologies, including several of the following:

• Frontend: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React, Redux, Redux Middleware, React Hooks, Next.js

• Backend: Java, PHP, Go, Python, Node.js, or equivalent backend technologies

• Architecture: Distributed systems, scalable architectures, APIs, microservices, performance optimization, event-driven systems, and asynchronous processing using messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka or similar queueing technologies

• Engineering Practices: Unit testing, automated testing, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, API Gateways, CDN, Service Workers, Elasticsearch, and related cloud-native technologies

• Frontend Architecture: SPAs and PWAs

• Mobile: React Native (good to have)

• Analytics: GTM, Hotjar, and similar product/customer analytics frameworks

• Design Collaboration: Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, or similar design tools is a plus

The candidate should demonstrate the ability to understand technology choices, evaluate trade-offs, learn rapidly, and guide teams across a broad technical landscape.

Who You Are & WhatYou’llNeed to Succeed

• 8+ years of strong software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and experience leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers while maintaining strong technical credibility.

• Excellent conceptual, analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise technical documentation and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Strong curiosity and openness to change, with an eagerness to work with tools and technologies outside your existing comfort zone.

• A builder's mindset — someone who is comfortable diving deep into complex technical problems when required, while enabling the team to solve problems independently.

• Passion for continuously improving engineering productivity and developer experience, particularly through AI and automation.

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a traditional people-management role. We are looking for an engineering leader who can operate at the intersection of technology, people, product, and AI.

You will be expected to:

Lead people → Shape technology → Build scalable systems → Adopt AI → Improve engineering productivity → Deliver business impact.
 

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.