Software Engineering Manager

Job Summary

As a Software Engineering Manager at Alicat Scientific, you will lead the team responsible for building and evolving our homegrown ERP system. This platform is critical to how we operate, and it directly impacts how work moves through the business from quote to shipment.

You will work at the intersection of software, operations, and real‑world manufacturing complexity, solving problems where reliability, usability, and maintainability all matter. The software you build will directly improve how each function in the business collaborates, enabling faster decisions, cleaner execution, and stronger business performance.

Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with stakeholders across the organization to translate real workflows into scalable, supportable software. Your leadership will shape architecture decisions, engineering standards, prioritization, and the delivery cadence needed to support a business that moves quickly and expects results.

In addition to your leadership responsibilities, you will remain a technical contributor. You will participate in design reviews, write and review production code, guide debugging and problem resolution, and help raise the quality bar through best practices in testing, code review, and continuous improvement. This is not a coordination‑only role.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who enjoys building high‑impact software, leading strong engineers, and owning outcomes that are visible across the entire organization. Based in Tucson, Arizona, you will have direct access to the teams you support and the ability to see the impact of your work through how the business runs.

• You will lead a team that builds software the business runs on. Your work shows up immediately in how orders move, how production flows, and how teams operate day to day.
• You get real ownership. You will shape priorities, architecture, standards, and execution, not just manage tickets.
• You will stay technical. You will still write code, review code, and solve hard problems while leading engineers and raising the bar.
• You will work close to the users. You will collaborate directly with Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality, and you will see feedback fast.
• You will improve real workflows, not vanity features. The problems are practical, high‑impact, and tied to measurable outcomes.

• Want to be a true player‑coach, leading engineers while still contributing technically every week.
• Enjoy building systems that need to be reliable, traceable, and supportable, not just “done.”
• Like turning messy real‑world workflows into software that makes people faster and removes friction.
• Prefer environments where decisions happen quickly, ownership is real, and you can drive change without bureaucracy.
• Take pride in building teams that ship consistently, communicate clearly, and improve the platform over time.

• Architect and evolve Alicat’s homegrown ERP platform and supporting internal systems that connect quoting, order flow, production, inventory, quality, shipping, and engineering workflows.
• Lead system design for new modules and enhancements, including domain models, workflow logic, integration points, and long‑term maintainability strategy.
• Write, review, and improve production code, setting a high bar for clarity, reliability, and maintainable design.
• Drive best practices in software quality, including unit testing, integration testing, regression prevention, and pragmatic test coverage suited to a business‑critical system.
• Design and optimize database schemas and data access patterns, ensuring performance, traceability, and data integrity across high‑usage workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, database, and integration layers, and lead root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Improve system observability and operational reliability through logging, monitoring, diagnostics, and actionable error handling.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate real business workflows into scalable software features, balancing usability, speed, and…