VP Software Engineering

SUMMARYLendingTree is seeking a proven leader to guide, manage, and grow the software teams within our Marketplace technology product teams. To maintain and improve performance as the business scales, we need experienced leadership to manage and grow the teams, build for the future, and work cross-functionally at the leadership level to craft technical and business strategy. You will help develop technical strategy and drive process and culture within the Marketplace engineering organization. You will participate in major architectural and technical decision-making processes while working closely with product management and leadership to ensure that product features can be delivered successfully.RESPONSIBILITIESInspire those around you with your passion for innovation and energy for working as part of a team.Grow and recruit top talent.Foster an inclusive environment, embracing diverse viewpoints and a collaborative atmosphere.Lead software engineering teams that design, build and maintain solutions for Marketplace technology products.Partner with product leaders and business managers to establish priorities across product groups.Develop long term technical roadmap and overall strategy to anticipate risk, and iterate our way to a target.Lead and manage implementation of complex engineering solutions across the enterprise.Ensure deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and sustainable.Provide insight and guidance, and resolve cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle.Ensure the creation of SOPs, KPIs, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications within a product group.Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards.Ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers.Set goals, strategies, budgets and oversee the deployment of large / enterprise scale initiatives and encourage a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of applications.QUALIFICATIONSB.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.10 years of experience in software engineering and product technologies.5 years of experience leading enterprise software engineering teams.5 years of experience leading a large, distributed Software Development and agile delivery organization.Expert understanding of cloud platforms (Azure / Amazon / AWS) and cloud-native architectures.Strong executive-level verbal and written communication skills.Strong stakeholder management, agile delivery, and prioritization skills.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.Passion for people, leadership, team building, and technology.COMPANYLendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.CULTUREWe’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”).Come work with us! LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.#J-18808-Ljbffr