What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Manager position at Lower?
Here at Lower, we believe homeownership is the greatest wealth creator in America today. Our goal is to make homeownership accessible to more people. We also know the path to get there can be daunting; but it doesn’t need to be.
As a mission-driven fintech, everything we do revolves around simplifying the home buying process. Through our growing family of companies and products, our team meets customers where they want to do business at every step of the journey.
As a mission-driven fintech, everything we do revolves around simplifying the home buying process. Through our growing family of companies and products, our team meets customers where they want to do business at every step of the journey.
Lower has originated, underwritten, and funded tens of billions of dollars in home loans and offers an industry-leading customer experience with ratings of 4.8 on Trustpilot, 4.9 on Google, 4.9 on Zillow, and A from the Better Business Bureau.
We innovate through technology, but our people are what sets us apart.
Job Description:
Purpose: The Software Engineering Manager will be tasked with leading a team, managing 1:1s and performance reviews, developing software applications, and initiating new techniques and technologies for software development. This position will be a code-contributing manager, work closely with your team, other development teams, and senior management to prioritize, schedule work, and deliver high-quality software.
What you’ll do:
- Develop software applications based on business requirements
- PR Review code submitted by developers on your team and other teams
- Maintain software applications and make enhancements according to project specifications
- Participate in requirement analysis, design, development, testing and implementation activities
- Propose new techniques and technologies for software development and architecture.
- Build test suites for unit testing, integrations testing, and system testing, to evaluate application functionality
- Ensure to complete the assigned development tasks within agreed estimates and clearly communicate when estimates need to be adjusted.
- Work in compliance with coding standards and best practices
- Provide assistance to other Developers as needed
- Review business requirements and recommend changes to develop reliable applications
- Develop coding documentations and other technical specifications for assigned projects when asked
- Analyze and resolve development issues accurately
- Providing clear and concise instructions to engineering team
- Manages staff and assigns tasks to engineering and technical personnel.
Who you are:
- At least 5-10 years of software engineering experience
- Proven expertise in software architecture, patterns and practices
- Demonstrate Empathy in management, mentorship, and communication
- Implement new ideas and solve complex technical problems and design issues with clearly written code.
- Drive adoption of advanced cloud-based features and capabilities where it makes sense
- Interact with development teams providing mentoring and guidance (through code reviews, design reviews, best practices and technical vision) while being still very hands-on and capable of deep diving into implementation details
Why you’ll love working at Lower:
- You’ll be surrounded by talented, dedicated people who believe in the company’s mission.
- You’ll be able to shape the future of Lower’s user experience.
- You’ll join a locally and nationally recognized best place to work that values promotion from within.
- There is opportunity for professional growth and development.
Plus:
- Competitive compensation plan
- Extended benefit offerings including: Medical/dental/vision
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- 401K with company match
- Discount on home mortgage refinances or purchase
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid, Columbus, OH
Pay: $165k - $205k
Lower provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Salary : $165,000 - $205,000
