Manager, Software Engineering

Manager, Software Engineering

Lending Tree is the nation's leading online financial services marketplace. We empower consumers to shop, compare, and save on financial products including mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, insurance, and more. Our mission is to help consumers make smarter financial decisions while creating innovative technology solutions that drive business growth and exceptional customer experiences.

Lending Tree is seeking an experienced and passionate Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team of software engineers responsible for building and scaling customer-facing and internal technology platforms. This leader will play a critical role in developing engineering talent, driving technical excellence, delivering high-impact business initiatives, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. The candidate will manage the team resources for a lead matching system where the end user submits a request for help finding lenders to match their need.

The system interacts with multiple distributed systems like Sales Force and inhouse applications. The team currently consists of 4 software engineers and 2 testing engineers. The candidate will be responsible for managing the development engineers, guiding the development team towards long term goals, interacting with stakeholders and managing expectations.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with technical depth, excels at cross-functional collaboration, and has a proven track record of delivering complex software solutions in fast-paced, data-driven environments.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, and career development planning.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, succession planning, and employee development activities.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard top engineering talent.
• Promote engineering best practices and create opportunities for technical growth across the team.

• Partner with engineers, architects and stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Guide technical decision-making and help balance short-term business needs with long-term platform health.
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards, automated testing, observability, and operational maturity.
• Ensure systems meet performance, reliability, availability, and security expectations.
• Support modernization efforts, cloud adoption initiatives, and platform improvements.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and business stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities.
• Manage delivery of complex software projects from concept through production.
• Establish clear team goals, success metrics, and execution plans.
• Identify and remove organizational and technical obstacles that impact delivery.
• Monitor team performance, delivery predictability, and operational health.

• Translate business objectives into actionable engineering plans.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Data, and Operations teams.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions and technology roadmap development.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Champion customer-centric thinking and data-informed decision making.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including direct people management responsibilities.
• Experience delivering distributed, cloud-based applications in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and modern development practices.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience building consumer-facing digital products at scale.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with modern web technologies and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience leading teams working with Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript/Type Script, React, Vue, or similar technologies.

Lending Tree is the nation's largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.

Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly…