Software Engineering Manager

About Securitas USA

Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. is the global leader in protective services, delivering specialized guarding, advanced technology solutions, and comprehensive risk management to clients across a wide range of industries. Our mission is simple yet powerful: to help make your world a safer place. With a proud legacy of 90 years, built on trust, innovation, and international expertise, we take pride in offering security solutions that are tailored to each client’s unique needs. By combining cutting-edge technology with exceptional service, we continue to redefine what safety and security mean in today's world.

Location: Elmsford, NY

Hybrid: Two days per week onsite for employees located within a reasonable commuting distance of the designated office (Elmsford, NY); or

Remote: This position may be performed fully remotely but ideal candidate will be based in Eastern or Central Time Zone.

Travel: Minimal travel required, with up to two domestic business trips per year.

The salary range for this role is from $175,000 to $200,000 annually. The compensation range may vary based on factors such as geographic location, relevant experience, and applicable skills.

What You’ll Do

As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will be responsible for leading in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your decisions directly influence outcomes. With modern technology and a strong local and distributed team, you’ll design and deliver digital products that support Securitas Guarding services while owning both operational performance and engineering outcomes.

This position plays a key role in supporting digital product delivery and engineering operations by modernizing engineering practices, improving developer productivity, strengthening operational excellence, and enabling teams to deliver high-quality software at scale. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, forward-thinking engineering leader who balances a people-first leadership philosophy with a strong focus on delivery, customer outcomes, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Lead, mentor, and develop software engineering teams (including leaders and individual contributors), fostering ownership, accountability, and professional growth.
• Champion a product mindset by aligning engineering work to customer needs and business outcomes, and ensuring teams solve meaningful user problems.
• Modernize engineering practices by maturing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, improving development environments and tooling, and responsibly adopting AI-assisted engineering (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor).
• Drive reliability, availability, and operational excellence through observability, monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement of production systems.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across employees, contractors, and external partners, establishing lightweight governance and predictable delivery practices that balance speed, quality, and risk.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Who you are

An ideal candidate brings:

• A service-first mindset, clear communication skills, strong attention to detail, and sound judgment when approaching challenges. The ideal candidate is solutions-focused and thrives in both independent and team settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• No formal license required; relevant certifications in cloud (e.g., Azure), Agile, or AI/ML are a plus.
• Proven experience leading and scaling Agile software engineering organizations.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, web technologies, APIs, and mobile application ecosystems.
• Recent hands-on experience in at least one modern frontend stack (React, Angular/AngularJS, GraphQL, TypeScript/JavaScript) or one mobile stack (Swift, Kotlin, iOS/Android native, React Native, Flutter, Objective-C).
• Practical experience adopting GenAI/agentic AI in engineering workflows or product features (LLMs, RAG, agents, AI-assisted coding tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf).
• Strong leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to inspire, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent.
• Product and ownership mindset, with the ability to balance speed, quality, technical strategy, and delivery commitments.

Experience that sets you apart

Required experience

• Technical background (must have one of the two):
• Candidate must have recent, hands-on experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Modern