Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering

Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, building shared platform services for secure and reliable product delivery. They are seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of software engineers, focusing on backend development, workflow automation, and AI-assisted tooling, while ensuring high standards of delivery and team culture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers delivering meaningful platform capabilities with clear reliability, security, performance, and delivery outcomes
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services, platform components, automation workflows, and internal tooling
• Make sound technical tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, supportability, and speed of delivery
• Provide direction on requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and release readiness
• Lead code and functional reviews, raise engineering quality standards, and improve test coverage, observability, and deployment practices
• Guide debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across multiple services or components
• Partner with architects and senior engineers to define reusable platform patterns, APIs, and service boundaries
• Ensure solutions follow documented architecture, security, and engineering standards and reduce manual work
• Collaborate with product, operations, security, and infrastructure teams to resolve issues, prioritize defects, and drive root-cause actions
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while building a culture of accountability, learning, inclusion, and customer focus
• Manage multiple medium- to large-scale initiatives, ensure timelines and deliverables are tracked, and adjust plans when priorities or resources change
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, operations, security, and other stakeholders; coach the team to build strong working relationships
• Provide direction on complex technical and operational issues and help the team resolve ambiguous problems with sound engineering judgment
• Promote skill growth, knowledge sharing, and adoption of modern practices, including AI-assisted engineering approaches where appropriate
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, quality, and reliability across the team’s work
• Provide coaching, feedback, and development planning while supporting talent decisions and succession planning

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading teams or major technical initiatives
• Proven ability to lead engineers delivering backend services, platform capabilities, automation, and operational tooling
• Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, and performance/reliability tradeoffs
• Demonstrated experience partnering across functions to deliver results in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
• Experience leading teams working on platform engineering, infrastructure, database, workflow automation, observability, or AI-assisted software delivery
• Background in cloud-native development and operations (OCI strongly preferred; AWS/Azure/GCP acceptable)
• Understanding of IAM, authorization, secure service-to-service communication, and secure software delivery practices
• Experience building or supporting internal developer tooling, test automation, release tooling, or operational dashboards
• Familiarity with Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar languages used in enterprise software environments