Engineering Manager, AI Transformation

Ring Inc; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 169,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity

Job summary

GoodLeap’s AI Transformation team leads the delivery of AI-powered solutions across the company, guiding agents, plugins, and evaluation harnesses. The engineering manager will oversee architecture, delivery, and operational health, mentoring engineers while advancing agentic workflows and secure, compliant practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Governance, and scaling the team as AI initiatives expand across fintech capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in leadership roles.
• Hands-on with LLM-based or agentic AI products (prompting, evals, agent frameworks).
• Strong cloud-native architecture knowledge (AWS or equivalent), API design, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow the AI Transformation engineering team; manage hiring and career development.
• Own architecture, delivery, and reliability of AI solutions, including agents, plugins, evaluations, and analytics.
• Guide decisions on agentic workflows and MCP-based orchestration while enforcing security and compliance.
• Coordinate with Product, business units, and Enterprise AI Governance to drive delivery and KPIs.
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and manage technical debt as the AI portfolio scales.

Skills

Leadership

Agentic AI

Cloud architecture

API design

CI/CD

TypeScript/Python

Stakeholder mgmt

Fintech/regulated

Tools

AWS

LLM tooling

Job description

About GoodLeap: GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy‑efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI‑powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.

GoodLeap is also proud to support our award‑winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life‑saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.

Position Summary

GoodLeap's AI Transformation team partners with business units across the company to enable safe and effective AI adoption through tools, guidance, infrastructure, training, and custom solutions — from Claude plugins and skills to AI agents, evaluation frameworks, and usage analytics. The Engineering Manager will lead the AI Transformation engineering team, owning the delivery, quality, and operational health of the AI solutions the team builds and maintains.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role for someone who can guide the architecture of agentic AI systems while building, coaching, and scaling the team accountable for them.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• People Leadership – Lead, coach, and grow the AI Transformation engineering team. Own hiring, performance management, and career development. Build a high-performance, accountable engineering culture.
• Technical Leadership – Own the architecture, delivery, and reliability of the team's AI solutions (agents, plugins/skills, evaluation harnesses, integrations, usage analytics).
• Guide technical decisions on agentic workflows, LLM integration, and MCP‑based orchestration. Set and enforce engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability appropriate to a regulated financial services environment. Champion modern engineering practices, including AI‑assisted and agentic development workflows.
• Cross‑Functional Execution – Partner with Product, business units, and the Enterprise AI Governance process to align engineering delivery with business outcomes across consult, co‑develop, and own‑and‑maintain engagement models. Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple teams; define and track KPIs for adoption, quality, and velocity.
• Process & Operational Maturity – Drive CI/CD, observability, and support rigor across the team's solutions. Manage technical debt and scalability as the portfolio of AI solutions grows.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership or management roles
• Hands‑on experience building and shipping LLM‑based or agentic AI products (prompting, evals, agent frameworks, MCP or similar orchestration)
• Strong grasp of cloud‑native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python
• Track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineers through changing scope
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable operating across Product, business units, Security, and Compliance
• Experience in a regulated environment (fintech, lending, payments) a plus
• Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering throughput a plus

CA, WA, NJ, MA, DC, NYC range: $185,200 - $210,600
Rest of US Range: $169,100- $191,800
SF Range: $207,900- $235,700

In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions

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