IT Engineering Manager

About the role

Lead, grow, and retain multiple high-performing engineering teams spanning full-stack, data engineering, and AI/agentic AI builders. Own the end-to-end delivery, quality, reliability, and operational health of cloud-native platforms across front-end, backend, data, and AI layers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery, quality, reliability, and operational health of cloud-native platforms across front-end, backend, data, and AI layers.
• Manage, mentor, and develop engineers and senior engineers; set clear goals, deliver performance reviews, and drive career growth.
• Own hiring end to end, building strong, diverse teams through effective recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and workforce planning.
• Set and enforce engineering standards and best practices for architecture, code quality, testing, security, and deployment, including responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Partner with product, design, data, and business leadership to translate strategy into scalable technical roadmaps and prioritized execution plans.
• Drive adoption of agentic AI, LLM tooling, and modern engineering practices to increase developer velocity and unlock new product capabilities.
• Provide architectural guidance and lead technical design reviews across full-stack, data engineering, and AI initiatives.
• Establish healthy Agile and delivery processes, metrics, and operational rigor, including planning, estimation, on-call, and incident management.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and coordination for complex, multi-quarter initiatives.
• Foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Communicate status, tradeoffs, and technical concepts clearly to both engineers and senior or executive stakeholders.
• Balance hands-on technical involvement with people leadership, remaining credible and close to the work while leading through others.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in software or data engineering, including 4+ years directly managing engineering teams.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
• Broad technical breadth across full-stack web development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React; backend languages such as C#, Node.js, or Java), data engineering (SQL, Python, cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT), and AI (LLM and agentic AI, RAG).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API design (REST/GraphQL), and cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience delivering data platforms and pipelines, with familiarity with data modeling, governance, and/or master data management (MDM) concepts.
• Hands-on familiarity building or integrating agentic AI and LLM-powered systems and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, MCP).
• Strong grasp of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and DevOps/DataOps practices.
• Excellent people leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to drive delivery across multiple teams and influence technical direction across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing managers or team leads within a multi-team organization.
• Experience leading teams that have shipped AI/ML or agentic AI products to production at scale.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, dbt).
• Prior experience in commercial real estate, fintech, or operations/transaction systems.
• Track record of speaking, writing, or open-source and community leadership, especially in applied AI.

Why Join Us

• Lead and shape the technical direction of business-critical platforms at enterprise scale, spanning full-stack, data, and next-generation agentic AI initiatives.
• Build and grow a high-impact organization where ownership, innovation, and technical excellence drive success.
• Competitive compensation, growth opportunities, and access to world-class engineering, data, and AI resources.
• Collaborative Culture: Lead a high-caliber team with deep expertise across full-stack development, cloud, data engineering, and agentic AI.
• Growth & Learning: Access world-class learning resources and mentorship to advance your career and those of your team.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and hybrid options.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.

Pay

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $200,000 to $250,000 annually. The actual base salary will be determined on an individualized basis taking into account a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, education, and, where applicable, licenses or certifications held. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, this position may be eligible for additional types of compensation including discretionary bonuses and other short- and long-term incentives (e.g., deferred cash, equity, etc.).