True Talent Solutions Partners

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About the Role Lead an engineering pod building software for mortgage lending. You will balance people management and delivery with hands-on engineering, partnering closely with Product and Technical Leads in a complex, high-stakes domain. What You'll Do Manage and support a pod of engineers through regular one-on-ones, feedback, performance management, hiring, and career development. Own planning, retrospectives, delivery health, and early identification of execution risks. Continue contributing code, typically around 10 to 20 percent of your time, and stay connected to the team's engineering work. Partner with Product Managers and Technical Leads on prioritization, architecture decisions, and cross-functional alignment. Support effective onboarding and maintain clear documentation and ownership boundaries. What We're Looking For At least 8 years of software engineering or engineering management experience, with a progressive path from individual contributor work into engineering management. Experience managing a pod of at least five engineers, including hiring, performance reviews, and performance management. Recent experience shipping production software and coding hands-on in an engineering management role. Strong backend engineering experience and hands-on TypeScript skills, including willingness to complete a live coding exercise. Experience with TypeScript and modern web and backend technologies such as React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Comfort using AI tools in engineering workflows, with familiarity with AI product development practices such as evaluations, experiment design, or dataset curation. Recent hands-on coding ability beyond AI-assisted coding, and experience working in a startup or small-company environment. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $225,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity and other benefits were not specified. Location Remote within the United States.