Engineering Manager

About Tomo Tomo's mission is not just to make homebuying joyful, or to make homebuying easy, or to make homebuying fast. Tomo's mission is to advantage the homebuyer. Everyone else is in line ready to take their cut from a homebuyer - and all too often that cut is not deserved. We are by their side trying to give them a leg up, trying to give them information others don't have, give them advice others don't have, give them a lower cost that others don't have - all that they can use to achieve better outcomes than they'd be able to otherwise. As an Engineering Manager at Tomo, you will oversee an engineering team building the software to provide the customer that homebuying edge. You will hire and nurture the best engineering talent and be accountable for your team's delivery of software systems and maintenance of those systems in production. As part of the engineering management team you will collaborate with your peers to seize opportunities for innovation, facilitate continuous process and technical improvements, and bring clarity and alignment to the engineering teams for what we build and how we build it. You will:

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of engineers (5-9), providing guidance and support for their professional development
• Foster a culture of candor, transparency, trust and decisiveness
• Be ready and able to join your teams in the code and at the (virtual) whiteboard, designing and delivering solutions to improve homebuyer experience
• Coach your teams to think and debate deeply, make nimble decisions, learn and iterate quickly
• Be accountable for your team's planning, delivery, and maintenance of software systems across the Tomo stack, including deployment, monitoring, and validation
• Collaborate with Tomo product and business stakeholders to define and drive the engineering roadmap for your team
• Establish and reinforce healthy software engineering practices and guide the team in flexing them appropriately for early-stage product exploration vs long-term platform scalability
• Support deployed systems in production as part of an on-call rotation.

You'll need:

• 7+ years of delivering meaningful software projects to production – including ideation, prioritization, design, release and follow-up iteration
• 2+ years experience leading team process and guiding technical direction
• Proven ability to hire and coach exceptional engineers and provide technical leadership across an engineering organization
• A deep understanding of front-end and back-end technology frameworks, data structures, service patterns, and how to use them to produce reliable, extensible, scalable systems
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous integration/deployment and automated testing
• Strong project management abilities, including experience with agile and/or scrum techniques
• Good understanding of AWS and cloud-based operational contexts
• Expertise leading a geographically distributed team
• Exceptional customer empathy and collaboration skills
• To be inquisitive, ready to engage in vibrant debate, make difficult decisions quickly, learn continuously and coach your team to do the same

You might also have:

• High-growth startup experience
• Experience with Fintech or mortgage technology systems
• Hands-on experience with modern Python, Javascript, or Typescript
• Experience with large consumer-facing websites and driving demand via SEO
• Strong opinions about the mortgage industry or homebuyer experience

Location: This role is remote, but candidates located near Seattle, WA, Stamford, CT, or New York, NY may work from our offices there whenever they choose to. The expected annual compensation for this position will be between $190,000—$220,000 USD