Software Development Manager (AI Builder Tools)

• This is a rare opportunity to be at the forefront of AI-powered developer tooling at one of the most impactful industrial software companies in the world
• You won’t just be managing platform engineers, you’ll help transform how every MaintainX engineer writes, ships, and maintains software through autonomous coding agents and infrastructure
• We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to lead our newly formed AI Builder Tools team
• This lean, high-autonomy, focused team has one mandate: make every MX engineer more productive through agentic tooling across the software development lifecycle — starting with autonomous coding agents that can take a ticket, implement the change, and open a pull request with with minimal hand-holding
• Join us in shaping the future of how software gets built—one agent, one PR, one software developer at a time
• Manage a team of platform engineers, driving delivery, quality, and innovation on our agentic SDLC platform
• Partner with Engineering Leadership and Platform teams to scope, plan, and deliver the infrastructure that powers autonomous coding agents across MaintainX
• Lead, mentor, and grow your developers—helping them build new skills in agent frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering
• Set clear expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and support the team in achieving goals
• Champion software development excellence—ensuring strong CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, observability, and agent orchestration practices
• Provide visibility into team impact, progress, and risks to senior leadership—including agent-produced PR rates, adoption metrics, and quality guardrails
• Collaborate with Recruiting and other Software Development Managers to hire, onboard, and scale a world-class platform engineering organization

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Training and development investments
• Competitive salary and equity opportunities
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage- Familiarity with LLM agent frameworks, MCP tooling, or agentic coding infrastructure is a strong differentiator
• Passion for hiring, coaching, and developing diverse platform engineering teams
• Strong technical foundation in developer tooling, CI/CD, containerization, and distributed systems
• Demonstrated experience in technical design, problem-solving, and project management
• 4+ years of Software Development management experience with proven success leading platform, DevEx, or infrastructure teams
• Bonus: you’ve shipped an AI coding agent or contributed to a DevEx/platform initiative that measurably improved engineering throughput
• Excellent communication skills - you can distill complex ideas and collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders