Software Development Manager, AI Builder Tools

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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>MaintainX is the leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform built for the modern world. Our mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running. MaintainX powers operational excellence for 12,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell. We recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion. We’re redefining how maintenance and operations teams work—transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic lever for growth. MaintainX fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity, empowering organizations to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency.</em></span></p> <hr> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a rare opportunity to be at the forefront of <strong>AI-powered developer tooling</strong> 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 <strong>AI Builder Tools</strong> 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. <span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">Join us in shaping the future of how software gets built—one agent, one PR, one software developer at a time.</span></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br>What You’ll Do:</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Manage a team of platform engineers, driving delivery, quality, and innovation on our agentic SDLC platform.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with <strong>Engineering Leadership and Platform teams</strong> to scope, plan, and deliver the infrastructure that powers autonomous coding agents across MaintainX.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead, mentor, and grow your developers—helping them build new skills in agent frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Set clear expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and support the team in achieving goals.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Champion software development excellence—ensuring strong CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, observability, and agent orchestration practices.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Provide visibility into team impact, progress, and risks to senior leadership—including agent-produced PR rates, adoption metrics, and quality guardrails.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with Recruiting and other Software Development Managers to <strong>hire, onboard, and scale</strong> a world-class platform engineering organization.</span><br><br></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About You:</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>4+ years</strong> of Software Development management experience with proven success leading platform, DevEx, or infrastructure teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong technical foundation in <strong>developer tooling, CI/CD, containerization</strong>, and distributed systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated experience in <strong>technical design, problem-solving, and project management</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Passion for <strong>hiring, coaching, and developing</strong> diverse platform engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with <strong>LLM agent frameworks</strong>, MCP tooling, or agentic coding infrastructure is a strong differentiator.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Excellent communication skills - you can distill complex ideas and collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bonus: you've shipped an AI coding agent or contributed to a DevEx/platform initiative that measurably improved engineering throughput.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br>What’s in it for you:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">401(k) / RRSP enrollment program.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Take what you need PTO.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A Work <a href="https://crew.vc/perspectives-insights/scaling-culture-through-hyper-growth/">Culture</a> where:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You’ll work alongside folks across the globe that reflect the MaintainX values: Smart Humble Optimists.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We believe in meritocracy, where ideas and effort are publicly celebrated.</span><br><br></li> </ul> </ul> <hr> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About us:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Our mission is to make the life of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by creating software that meets their needs and realities. Our product is truly life-changing for that 80% of the workforce who doesn’t work behind a desk and needs enterprise-grade software at their fingertips. MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.</em></span><br><br></p>

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