Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role

Lead an engineering pod of approximately 6 to 8 engineers at an AI-enabled fintech mortgage technology company. You will guide team health and delivery while staying hands-on with production software, partnering closely with Product and Technical Leads in a complex, high-stakes domain.

What You'll Do

• Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback, performance reviews, hiring, and career development.

• Own planning, retrospectives, delivery health, and early identification of execution risks for your pod.

• Spend approximately 10% to 20% of your time coding, contributing regularly to production work.

• Partner with Product Managers and Technical Leads on priorities, architecture decisions, and cross-functional alignment.

• Improve onboarding, documentation, and clear ownership boundaries across the team.

What We're Looking For

• 8 or more years of software engineering or engineering management experience, with a progressive path from individual contributor work into management.

• Experience managing 5 or more direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career growth.

• Recent hands-on experience shipping production software as an engineering manager, with strong backend engineering experience.

• Strong TypeScript skills and the ability to contribute code directly.

• Experience with modern web and backend technologies such as React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

• Comfort using AI tools in engineering workflows, with familiarity in AI product development practices such as evaluations, experiment design, and dataset curation.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $225,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Remote within the United States.