Engineering Manager, AI-First Fintech Solutions

Socket.dev; Sharon (Mercer County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team of software engineers delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions for our mortgage and fintech platforms. You will partner with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps with company objectives.

This hands-on leadership role requires mentoring engineers, shaping development practices, and driving delivery metrics while maintaining focus on security, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, supervisory, team lead, or management experience.
• Embraces an AI-First mentality when it comes to software development.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise software solutions.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, SDLC, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and organizational development skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Develop solutions to satisfy the company’s software use cases.
• Conduct performance evaluations, career development planning, and regular coaching conversations.
• Support workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, and talent retention activities.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Identify future technical and leadership talent within the organization.
• Manage the execution and delivery of software initiatives, product enhancements, and modernization efforts.
• Partner with Product Management to establish priorities, roadmaps, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure engineering standards, security requirements, and quality expectations are met.
• Monitor team capacity, sprint execution, delivery metrics, and operational health.
• Remove blockers and proactively address risks affecting timelines.
• Guide architectural and technical decision-making within the team.
• Promote engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and secure software development.
• Collaborate with architects and senior technical leaders on modernization and platform strategies.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders across Engineering, QA, Product, Operations, Security, and Client Services.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives that improve productivity, quality, and customer outcomes.
• Communicate project status, risks, and team performance to senior leadership.
• Contribute to department planning, budgeting, and strategic initiatives.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI-first mindset

SDLC

Agile methodologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

C#

ASP.NET

Angular

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

AI tools

Job description

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team of software engineers delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions for our mortgage and fintech platforms. You will partner with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps with company objectives.

This hands-on leadership role requires mentoring engineers, shaping development practices, and driving delivery metrics while maintaining focus on security, reliability, and