Manager, Software Engineering
Job Location:
Charlotte, VT - USA
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Job Summary
*PLEASE NOTE: This role is open to candidates located in Charlotte NC with hybrid attendance required. Hybrid requires in-person attendance at least 3 days a week (ideally Tuesday-Thursday) in our Charlotte NC office. Additionally this position does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.*
About LendingTree
LendingTree is the nations leading online financial services marketplace. We empower consumers to shop compare and save on financial products including mortgages personal loans credit cards insurance and more. Our mission is to help consumers make smarter financial decisions while creating innovative technology solutions that drive business growth and exceptional customer experiences.
Position Summary
LendingTree is seeking an experienced and passionate Manager Software Engineering to lead a team of software engineers responsible for building and scaling customer-facing and internal technology platforms. This leader will play a critical role in developing engineering talent driving technical excellence delivering high-impact business initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation accountability and continuous improvement.The candidate will manage the team resources for a lead matching system where the end user submits a request for help finding lenders to match their need. The system interacts with multiple distributed systems like SalesForce and inhouse applications. The team currently consists of 4 software engineers and 2 testing engineers. The candidate will be responsible for managing the development engineers guiding the development team towards long term goals interacting with stakeholders and managing expectations.
The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with technical depth excels at cross-functional collaboration and has a proven track record of delivering complex software solutions in fast-paced data-driven environments.
What Youll Do:
Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Lead coach and develop a team of software engineers through regular feedback mentoring and career development planning.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership collaboration inclusion and continuous learning.
- Conduct performance reviews goal setting succession planning and employee development activities.
- Recruit interview and onboard top engineering talent.
- Promote engineering best practices and create opportunities for technical growth across the team.
Technical Leadership
- Partner with engineers architects and stakeholders to design scalable secure and maintainable software solutions.
- Guide technical decision-making and help balance short-term business needs with long-term platform health.
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards automated testing observability and operational maturity.
- Ensure systems meet performance reliability availability and security expectations.
- Support modernization efforts cloud adoption initiatives and platform improvements.
Delivery & Execution
- Partner closely with Product Design Analytics and business stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities.
- Manage delivery of complex software projects from concept through production.
- Establish clear team goals success metrics and execution plans.
- Identify and remove organizational and technical obstacles that impact delivery.
- Monitor team performance delivery predictability and operational health.
Collaboration & Business Impact
- Translate business objectives into actionable engineering plans.
- Build strong partnerships across Engineering Product Marketing Data and Operations teams.
- Participate in strategic planning discussions and technology roadmap development.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes tooling and team effectiveness.
- Champion customer-centric thinking and data-informed decision making.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field; equivalent experience considered.
- 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2 years of experience leading engineering teams including direct people management responsibilities.
- Experience delivering distributed cloud-based applications in a production environment.
- Strong understanding of software architecture system design and modern development practices.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders.
- Strong communication organizational and problem-solving skills.
Preferred
- Experience building consumer-facing digital products at scale.
- Experience with AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with modern web technologies and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience leading teams working with Python JavaScript/TypeScript ReactVue or similar technologies.
COMPANY
LendingTree is the nations largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders so they find the best deals on loans credit cards savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders so they make their best financial Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting those days we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now we help consumers find their best in personal loans auto loans business loans student loans credit cards savings accounts home equity loans and more.
What else you should know:
- Were a publicly-traded company (TREE).
- Weve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
- Weve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.
Incentive Compensation: Annual bonus opportunity
Benefits: Medical dental vision insurance 401(k) matching life insurance pet insurance and a competitive PTO (paid time off) policy
The base pay range for this position in Seattle/New York/Colorado/California is $150000 to 200000 however base pay offered may vary depending on internal factors job-related knowledge and experience.
CULTURE
Were a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. Were collaborative ambitious candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest most talented people youll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please do wear clothes to work!) and were pretty good about rewarding innovation creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD Get Stuff Done). Come work with us!
LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race color religion (or creed) gender gender expression age national origin disability marital status sexual orientation or military status.
This is an opportunity for full-time employment. Please no third parties or Corp to Corp.
CCPA Disclosure
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
LendingTree helps you get the best deal possible on your loans. By providing multiple offers from several lenders, we show your options, you score the win.
