Client Roles
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead the health, delivery, and growth of an engineering pod building software for the mortgage and financial technology sector. This is a hands-on management role, with time reserved for coding and close collaboration with Product and technical leaders.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Manage and support a pod of approximately 6 to 8 engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and career development.
- Own planning, retrospectives, delivery health, and early communication of execution risks.
- Contribute code regularly, targeting approximately 10 to 20 percent of your time and 1 to 2 pull requests per week.
- Partner with Product Managers and technical leads on priorities, architecture decisions, and cross-functional alignment.
- Improve engineer onboarding, documentation, and clarity of ownership.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 8 years of software engineering or engineering management experience, with a progressive path from individual contributor work into management.
- Demonstrated middle-management experience leading a team of at least 5 engineers, including hiring and performance management.
- Recent experience shipping production software and coding in an engineering management role, including hands-on TypeScript experience and substantial backend engineering experience.
- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, and modern infrastructure and observability tools.
- Experience using AI tools in engineering workflows and familiarity with AI product development practices such