Software Engineering Manager

Position Summary: 

Responsibilities: 

• Leads and manages a team of software engineers responsible for building and supporting enterprise applications and services.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership in solution design, implementation planning, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution.
• Leads development efforts using C#, .NET, APIs, SQL Server, cloud services, messaging, and related enterprise technologies.
• Partners with Product, Business Analysts, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify risks, and define delivery plans.
• Ensures solutions are scalable, secure, cost-effective, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Reviews technical designs and code to ensure quality, performance, reliability, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Helps engineers break down complex requirements into clear technical tasks, estimates, and implementation plans.
• Drives accountability for sprint commitments, release readiness, defect resolution, technical debt reduction, and production stability.
• Mentors engineers on technical design, coding practices, debugging, system ownership, and professional growth.
• Works with QA and SDET teams to ensure quality is built into the development process through automation, proper test coverage, and early validation.
• Collaborates with DevOps and platform teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment reliability, monitoring, logging, and operational support.
• Communicates clearly with leadership and stakeholders regarding status, risks, dependencies, blockers, and mitigation plans.
• Supports hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and retention of engineering talent.
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering field required and a minimum of Six (6) + years’ experience working in a similar field.
• Experience in the Mortgage industry preferred.
• Minimum two (3) + years of management experience preferred. 
• Minimum of five (5) + years of experience developing applications on the .NET framework using C#, developing web services, SQL database development, and developing client server and enterprise level systems.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and building enterprise applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, SQL Server, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, API design, distributed systems, event-driven design, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of design patterns, object-oriented programming, clean code principles, secure coding practices, and maintainable software design.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated builds, release management, and environment management.
• Working knowledge of messaging and integration technologies such as Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, NServiceBus, or similar platforms.
• Strong ability to review code and technical designs to identify design flaws, scalability risks, security concerns, and maintainability issues.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across applications, APIs, databases, integrations, logs, queues, and infrastructure components.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams while remaining close to technical implementation details.
• Strong delivery management skills, including estimation, planning, dependency management, risk identification, execution tracking, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience working with Product, QA, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders in a cross-functional delivery environment.
• Strong understanding of software quality practices, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, test automation, code reviews, and defect prevention.
• Ability to balance speed of delivery with quality, scalability, maintainability, security, and long-term platform health.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Ability to work through complex problems involving multiple systems, teams, dependencies, and variables.
• Ability to work with limited supervision while taking ownership of outcomes. 

 Why work for #teamloanDepot:

• Competitive compensation package based on experience, skillset and overall fit for #TeamloanDepot.
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive
• Work with other passionate, purposeful, and customer-centric people
• Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision
• Wellness program to support both mental and physical health
• Generous paid time off for both exempt and non-exempt positions

About loanDepot: 

loanDepot, America's lender, matches borrowers through technology and high-touch customer care with the credit they need to fuel their lives. As a fast-growing national consumer lender, the loanDepot platform is disrupting finance by dissolving the lines between mortgage and nonmortgage credit.

The company has funded over $100 billion in loans since inception, and is passionate about emerging financial technology and dynamic product delivery supported by excellent customer service to empower consumers.

Headquartered in Southern California, loanDepot employs 5,400+ lending professionals across the country including 1,700+ licensed loan officers who hold 10,000+ licenses. The company operates 180+ local loan locations nationwide. NMLS # 174457