Manager, Engineering

Position Summary

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking an experienced and collaborative Manager Engineering to lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering scalable secure and high-quality technology solutions supporting the companys mortgage and fintech platforms.

The Manager Engineering is accountable for both people leadership and delivery execution. This role partners closely with Product Management Architecture Quality Assurance DevOps and other business stakeholders to ensure teams consistently deliver innovative solutions aligned with company objectives. The successful candidate will foster a culture of accountability technical excellence continuous improvement and employee growth. Dark Matter Engineering Managers are expected to be hands-on with the company source code developing alongside their direct reports.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Lead coach mentor and develop a team of software engineers.
• Develop solutions to satisfy the companys software uses cases.
• Conduct performance evaluations career development planning and regular coaching conversations.
• Support workforce planning recruiting onboarding and talent retention activities.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership collaboration and continuous learning.
• Identify future technical and leadership talent within the organization.

Engineering Delivery

• Manage the execution and delivery of software initiatives product enhancements and strategic modernization efforts.
• Partner with Product Management to establish priorities roadmaps and delivery commitments.
• Ensure engineering teams adhere to established development standards security requirements and quality expectations.
• Monitor team capacity sprint execution delivery metrics and operational health.
• Remove blockers and proactively address risks that may impact delivery timelines.

Technical Leadership

• Guide architectural and technical decision-making within the team.
• Promote engineering best practices including code reviews automated testing CI/CD observability and secure software development.
• Collaborate with architects and senior technical leaders on modernization and platform strategies.
• Ensure solutions are scalable maintainable and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support incident management root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.

Organizational Leadership

• Partner with cross-functional leaders across Engineering QA Product Operations Security and Client Services.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives that improve productivity quality and customer outcomes.
• Communicate project status risks and team performance to senior leadership.
• Contribute to department planning budgeting and strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7 years of software engineering experience.
• 2 years of technical leadership supervisory team lead or management experience.
• Embraces an AI-First mentality when it comes to software development
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise software solutions.
• Strong understanding of software architecture software development lifecycle (SDLC) Agile methodologies and engineering best practices.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Strong people leadership coaching and organizational development skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies including C# and Web APIs.
• Experience with Angular
• Experience with AI-Assist development tools. (GitHub Copilot LLMs etc.)
• Experience developing cloud-native applications using Amazon Web Services.
• Familiarity with microservices event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development.
• Understanding of security best practices for enterprise applications.
• Enterprise Integration Experience
• Experience within mortgage real estate fintech or financial services industries.
• Experience leading distributed or hybrid engineering teams.
• Experience managing engineering delivery metrics and operational performance indicators.

Success Measures

During the first 12 months the Manager Engineering will:

• Build and maintain a highly engaged engineering team.
• Deliver strategic roadmap commitments on schedule and with high quality.
• Improve software reliability maintainability and operational stability.
• Reduce delivery bottlenecks through effective planning and execution.
• Strengthen engineering practices including testing automation security and observability.
• Successfully develop team members and support internal career progression.
• Foster strong partnerships across Product QA Architecture and Operations.

Leadership Competencies

• People Development
• Strategic Thinking
• Execution Excellence
• Technical Leadership
• Decision Making
• Accountability
• Collaboration & Influence
• Continuous Improvement
• Customer Focus
• Communication & Transparency

The selected candidate will be expected to work onsite from the Sharon PA or Jacksonville FL office 3 days per week.

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