Engineering Manager: Hands-on Tech Leader in Agile Teams

Invitation Homes; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Casual dress

Job summary

Invitation Homes is seeking anEngineering Manager to lead and grow an engineering team while balancing hands-on development with strategic leadership. You will partner with Product and Platform Owners to deliver high-performing software in an agile environment.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of development with 2+ years in leadership, deep knowledge of JavaScript, SQL, AWS, and modern data architectures. Expect a collaborative culture, architectural planning, and a focus on scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of professional development experience, and 2+ years of recent experience managing or leading an engineering team
• Experience working in agile development environment
• Deep understanding of software and development engineering principles and concepts
• Deep technical skills in JavaScript development, SQL development, MSSQL, Postgres, AWS, CI/CD, Mulesoft, Salesforce

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product and Platform Owners, Quality Assurance, and other teams in an agile environment to build, deploy and maintain software systems
• Design solutions with a focus on performance and maintainability
• Measure and evaluate features and system metrics to continuously improve user experience and service performance
• Grow and inspire a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback and career development
• Cultivate a healthy, collaborative engineering culture that’s in line with our values.
• Make recommendations on future technical architecture for software, platform, integrations and tools
• Document technical and integration architectures
• Work collaboratively to help define and execute team roadmaps

Skills

Leadership

Team management

JavaScript

SQL

PostgreSQL

MSSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Data analysis

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

Tools

Mulesoft

Salesforce

AWS

MSSQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Invitation Homes is seeking anEngineering Manager to lead and grow an engineering team while balancing hands-on development with strategic leadership. You will partner with Product and Platform Owners to deliver high-performing software in an agile environment.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of development with 2+ years in leadership, deep knowledge of JavaScript, SQL, AWS, and modern data architectures. Expect a collaborative culture, architectural planning, and a focus on scalable systems.