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Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world-class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for technology experts who envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.
First American is seeking candidates for a leadership role in Software Engineering. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to driving engineering best practices.As the Senior Manager of Software Engineering, you will build and lead a team of skilled engineers to deliver and operate our core, mission-critical Title & Settlement product using modern tools, techniques, and cloud-native services.
What You'll Do:
Technical Leadership: Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back-end services. You will use the necessary architectural principles and implement modern, world-class, secure engineering practices that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant. At times, you may need to roll up your sleeves to engage and remove obstacles. This also includes work breakdown, prioritization, and backlog management.
Collaborate/Partner:Collaborate with product management, business development teams, and other cross-functional teams and leaders to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions. You will enable the successful adoption of solutions delivered by the team and contribute to organization-wide initiatives.
People Leadership & Development: Our people are our greatest asset, and you will mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.
Quality & Security Focused: Drive implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions meeting all quality & security standards.
Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring:
5-7 years managing cross-functional engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
8+ years of developing software solutions/products (Full software development lifecycle).
Proven track record for delivering fit-for-purpose technical solutions that balance complexity, performance, and maintainability.
Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high-functioning engineering team.
Passion, perspective, and empathy for unblocking software engineering teams working to achieve their goals.
A balanced approach between Software Engineering Principles and Modern Infrastructure Operations.
Ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing solutions.
Ability to mentor software engineers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
Knowledge of software engineering practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Demonstrated expertise in building large-scale, back-end services and APIs using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services) and coding languages.
Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting their career growth.
An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) to inform areas for continuous improvement.
Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills.
Ideally, you will also have experience with:
C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript & React/Node.js or Golang
Containerized development (Docker)
Kubernetes
Relational (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases
Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract)
Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
AWS Could Services: API Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Faregate, ECR, EC2 Container Service, S3, Elastic File System, Lambda, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Step functions, SQS, Kinesis, SNS, EventHub, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Transit gateways
Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financials Services or Healthcare
Pay Range: $200,000 - $230,000 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
What We OfferBy choice, we don't simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.First American invests in its employees' development and well-being, empowers them to provide superior customer service and encourages them to serve the communities where they live and work. First American is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer.