Senior Software Engineering Manager

About the Role

Aiden is seeking a high-caliber software development leader to run the engineering organization behind the Aiden product set: AidenBot, AidenVision, AidenStudio, and Aiden Policy Editor. This is a multi-product leadership role, not a single-codebase role.

The person in this seat owns the operating cadence, staffing accountability, release discipline, quality management, architecture coordination, and budget stewardship required to deliver reliable product value on a consistent cadence. Just as importantly, this leader owns the design, vision, continuous improvement, and ultimate success of Aiden’s software development lifecycle (SDLC), including how the company plans, builds, tests, secures, releases, and learns from software delivery.

This role has direct managerial responsibility for software development team resources, including quarterly performance conversations, annual performance reviews, coaching, hiring, accountability, and day-to-day leadership of the people on the team. The role works closely with the co-Founder & CTO, Sean Maloney, senior engineering contributors, QA, Product, Customer Success, Security, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

What You Will Own

• Engineering delivery across AidenBot, AidenVision, AidenStudio, Aiden Policy Editor, reporting initiatives, AskAiden-related capabilities, and related integrations.
• The operating rhythm of the software development organization, including standups, sprint planning, backlog hygiene, architecture reviews, release readiness, defect triage, and escalation handling.
• A reliable release cadence with rollback readiness, strong QA discipline, and fewer production surprises.
• Direct people management for software development resources across product engineering, QA, release operations, architecture coordination, and product-facing database / application performance collaboration.
• Cross-functional coordination with teams responsible for infrastructure, core IT, access control, software licensing, cloud resources, and security governance so that development requests follow the right approval and control processes.
• Vendor and contractor management across software development workstreams, including scope, quality, accountability, and cost effectiveness.
• A disciplined, AI-forward engineering model that uses AI-assisted engineering, agentic workflows, and modern development approaches to increase speed, leverage, and capital efficiency without weakening architecture, governance, or release reliability.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development leadership experience, including management of engineering teams, releases, quality, and roadmap execution.
• A strong track record leading multiple workstreams and distributed teams with cross-functional dependencies.
• Credible technical depth in modern software development, architecture oversight, SDLC design, and engineering process leadership.
• Demonstrated comfort with direct managerial accountability, including hiring, coaching, performance management, quarterly conversations, and annual reviews.
• Experience leading quality-assured release cycles with measurable standards around timeliness, quality, uptime, and incident response.
• Experience managing engineering budgets, vendors / contractors, and tradeoffs between cost, speed, and quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with executives, engineers, customers, auditors, and investors.
• Experience with Agile / Scrum / Azure DevOps or similar development operating systems.
• Comfort operating in a smaller, high-accountability growth company where the leader must combine strategy, detail, and hands-on management discipline.

Preferred Background

• Experience leading engineering teams building enterprise SaaS, endpoint management, Windows-based systems, cybersecurity-related products, or IT operations software.
• Experience with Microsoft-oriented ecosystems, database / application performance oversight, integrations, release governance, and cross-functional product delivery.
• Experience in AI-assisted software development, agentic development workflows, AI-enabled QA, or modern human-plus-agent engineering models.
• Experience rebuilding or professionalizing an engineering organization that needed stronger delivery rigor, quality control, and release reliability.
• Exposure to SOC 2, development governance, security reviews, and audit support.
• Success working with globally distributed and partially fractional engineering teams

What Success Looks Like

• Strategic releases ship on time with a reliable bi-weekly cadence, stronger rollback readiness, and reduced release drama.
• Engineering quality improves through stronger QA discipline, clearer ownership, fewer escaped defects, and better production confidence.
• The team becomes more accountable, more predictable, and easier to manage across full-time, fractional, offshore, and contractor resources.
• The SDLC becomes clearer, faster, and more scalable, with better sprint hygiene, better release governance, and better post-release learning.
• AI is implemented thoughtfully as a force multiplier for speed, quality, and capital efficiency.
• Engineering becomes a source of customer and investor confidence in Aiden’s roadmap and execution.

Benefits we offer:

• Unlimited PTO
• Equity in a hyper-growth startup
• Healthcare + dental + vision coverage
• Regular training to help nurture your talents and grow within the company
• Growth opportunities (Aiden is scaling, and we prefer to promote from within)
• Work closely with all levels of people in the business in a culture where everyone has an equal voice.

Why you should join our team:

At Aiden, we value people with high energy who can energize others. Our team members are intelligent and creative experts at their craft and enjoy helping others. We value team players who are more concerned with what’s right.

Our culture is focused on openness, honesty, and transparency, so everyone can freely share ideas, thoughts, and positive criticisms to ensure the team strives for excellence. Meet some of the team: https://www.aidentech.io/company

Aiden Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are excited to work with talented people regardless of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, or age. We celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make an excellent product.