Senior Manager, Engineering

About the role

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Manager, Engineering to lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for delivering innovative, scalable, and secure mortgage technology solutions. The Senior Manager, Engineering provides organizational leadership across multiple product and platform teams, ensuring alignment between engineering execution, product strategy, and business objectives. This role is responsible for developing engineering leaders, improving organizational effectiveness, driving technical excellence, and ensuring successful delivery of strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills, deep software development experience, and a proven ability to manage complex technology portfolios while building high-performing engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for product development, platform initiatives, and technology modernization efforts.
• Develop and execute engineering strategies aligned with company objectives and product roadmaps.
• Establish organizational goals, operating metrics, and performance expectations.
• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to prioritize investments and strategic initiatives.
• Directly manage Engineers and senior technical leaders.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering leadership talent.
• Support recruiting strategies and hiring activities to ensure organizational growth and capability.
• Foster employee engagement, retention, and professional development.
• Ensure successful execution of engineering roadmaps across multiple teams and product lines.
• Monitor delivery commitments, resource allocation, dependencies, and project risks.
• Drive predictable release schedules and continuous improvement of delivery processes.
• Remove organizational obstacles that impact engineering productivity and effectiveness.
• Measure and improve key engineering performance indicators.
• Partner with Architecture, Product Management, QA, DevOps, and Security leaders to define long-term technology strategies.
• Guide modernization initiatives, cloud adoption, platform engineering efforts, and technical debt reduction programs.
• Promote engineering best practices including automation, observability, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend investments that improve business outcomes.
• Successfully deliver strategic roadmap commitments across multiple teams.
• Improve engineering productivity, quality, and organizational effectiveness.
• Strengthen leadership capabilities within the engineering management team.
• Advance modernization and platform engineering initiatives.
• Improve operational reliability, software quality, and customer outcomes.
• Increase employee engagement and retention within the engineering organization.
• Establish clear metrics and accountability mechanisms for engineering performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent