Engineering Manager

The role

You will own the health, output, and trajectory of an engineering pod of 6–8 engineers. You will manage people, execution, delivery health, and cross-functional partnerships. You will also partner with a Technical Lead and a Product Manager to deliver high-stakes financial services software.

What you will do

• Own pod performance and create clarity around priorities and expectations
• Manage the operating cadence including planning and retros
• Remove blockers for engineers
• Be accountable for pod delivery and roadmap risks
• Run weekly 1:1s and provide continuous feedback
• Manage engineer performance, growth, and retention
• Own onboarding for new engineers
• Partner with Product Managers on prioritization and requirements
• Partner with Technical Leads on architecture and technical risk
• Interview and help close candidates

Required qualifications

• Fluent in modern AI product development including evals, experiment design, and dataset curation
• First-hand use of AI in engineering workflows
• Credible engineering background with experience shipping production software
• Ability to read a PR, evaluate a design doc, and push back on an estimate
• Strong written communication
• Ability to manage on-call duties which are shared team-wide

Nice to have

• Experience managing engineers directly, ideally 5+ on a product or platform team
• Track record of delivery with teams that improved at shipping
• Comfort with ambiguity and high-complexity domains
• Strong product partnership instincts
• Directness with care
• Operational and reliability instincts
• A keen eye for security risk
• Experience hiring and onboarding in a growing organization

Benefits

• Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered)
• Vision & dental coverage
• 401(k)
• HSA / FSA
• Access to lender partner's employee loan program
• Remote-first culture
• Flexible time off

About the company

Loancrate builds AI-native tooling to automate mortgage workflows. The company is a remote team that aims to make home-buying simpler and less expensive for lenders and borrowers.