Job#: 3028300 Job Description: Engineering Manager - Digital Engineering
6 Month Contract to HireLocation: Miami, FL | Onsite 4 days per week, remote Fridays- must currently reside within 1 hour of Miami, FL
Overview
Our Fortune 500 Client is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead backend focused engineering teams responsible for building and supporting large scale, customer facing digital applications. This is a hands on leadership role combining deep technical expertise with people leadership, delivery ownership, and long term technical strategy.
You will partner closely with Product and Delivery leaders to drive execution across services, integrations, and platforms, while ensuring high quality, scalable solutions that support web and mobile experiences.
What You'll Do
- Lead and manage one or more software engineering teams of 5 to 15 engineers, including onshore and offshore resources
- Provide hands on technical leadership across backend services, APIs, and system integrations
- Establish engineering best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support
- Own team delivery, capacity planning, hiring, performance management, and career development
- Drive long term technical strategy while balancing near term delivery needs
- Partner with product, delivery, and business stakeholders to align engineering execution with roadmap priorities
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and serve as the engineering point of accountability for your product area
- Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers and proactively drive resolution
- Collaborate with platform, operations, and vendor partners to ensure system stability and performance
Technical Environment
- Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and API development
- Docker, Kubernetes, and Kustomize
- GitOps workflows using Argo CD
- Event driven architectures with Kafka
- Couchbase or other NoSQL databases
- Distributed systems and reactive programming concepts
- Backend integration supporting web and mobile client applications
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams
- Strong hands on backend engineering background
- Experience building and supporting large scale, customer facing applications
- Proven ability to manage offshore teams and third party vendors
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders
- High ownership mindset with end to end delivery accountability
- Ability to work onsite four days per week in Miami, FL
Nice to Have
- Experience with both web and mobile application development
- GraphQL and API gateway experience such as Apigee
- Experience with reactive frameworks such as WebFlux or Project Reactor
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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