Engineering Manager: Lead Teams & Architect Solutions

Invitation Homes; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

401k with company matching

Generous PTO

Job summary

Invitation Homes is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team, blending deep technical leadership with people management in a fast‑paced environment.

You will work on customer and employee facing applications, shaping architecture, driving agile delivery, and mentoring engineers to elevate performance and collaboration within a culture that values inclusion and continuous learning.

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 one or more of: 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

Excellent communication

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Decision-making

Collaboration

Data-driven

System design

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Mulesoft

Salesforce

PostgreSQL

MS SQL

JavaScript development

SQL development

Job description

Invitation Homes is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team, blending deep technical leadership with people management in a fast‑paced environment.

You will work on customer and employee facing applications, shaping architecture, driving agile delivery, and mentoring engineers to elevate performance and collaboration within a culture that values inclusion and continuous learning.