Manager, Engineering, Developer Experience

Isolved is a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions that combines modern technology with expert services and support. The Engineering Manager, Developer Platform & Developer Experience leads a high-impact team focused on building and improving internal developer platforms and tooling, blending technical contributions with people leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a small team of engineers across Developer Platform and Developer Experience
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning to support team growth
• Hire, onboard, and build a high-performing, collaborative engineering team
• Set clear expectations, provide direct feedback, and address performance issues effectively
• Own and prioritize the roadmap across platform and developer experience initiatives (IDP, IaC, CI/CD, observability, AI tooling)
• Translate organizational goals into actionable deliverables and measurable outcomes for the team
• Partner with architecture, engineering, and product leaders to align platform strategy with business priorities
• Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and stakeholders
• Contribute hands-on through coding, architecture design, PR reviews, and technical guidance
• Maintain technical depth to support sound decision-making and step into complex technical challenges when needed
• Drive delivery of internal developer platform capabilities, shared tooling, and CI/CD solutions
• Promote adoption of AI development tools and establish metrics (e.g., DORA, DX) to improve developer productivity and experience
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architecture, security, and engineering teams to ensure platform effectiveness
• Lead enablement efforts such as demos, office hours, and knowledge sharing to increase adoption and impact

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of direct people management or equivalent technical leadership with coaching responsibilities
• Proven ability to lead while remaining hands-on as an individual contributor
• Experience owning and delivering against a technical roadmap
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently address complex challenges
• Proficiency in C#/.NET, Azure, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Strong architectural and technical decision-making experience at the team or platform level
• Demonstrated people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and hiring
• Experience with modern engineering practices and tools, including developer platforms, AI-assisted development, distributed systems, and productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA)
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agentic developer workflows
• Observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Datadog, or similar)
• Security tooling integration (GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, or similar)
• Leading a transition from one CI/CD platform to another (Azure DevOps to GitHub, or similar)
• Public speaking, internal evangelism, or external technical thought leadership
• Contributing to or maintaining open-source platform tooling