QA Engineer

Here at Lower
, we believe home ownership is the key to building wealth, and we’re making it easier and more accessible than ever. As a mission-driven fintech
, we simplify the home-buying process through cutting-edge technology and a seamless customer experience
.

With tens of billions in funded home loans and top ratings on Trustpilot (4.8), Google (4.9), and Zillow (4.9), we’re a leader in the industry. But what truly sets us apart?
Our people. Join us and be part of something bigger.

Lower is building technology that powers digital mortgage, home finance, automation, and AI-powered experiences across the home ownership journey.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of software engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating high-quality software across Lower’s engineering organization. You’ll be accountable for the performance, development, delivery, and health of your team while remaining technically engaged enough to guide engineering decisions, review designs, and help remove technical roadblocks.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong people management with deep software engineering experience. You’ll work closely with Software Engineers, Product, Design, QA, and engineering leadership to translate business priorities into clear technical plans, develop engineers at different stages of their careers, and ensure your team delivers reliable software effectively.

You’ll help create an environment where engineers have clear expectations, strong technical support, thoughtful feedback, and the autonomy needed to do their best work.

Work Location:

Hybrid in Columbus, OH Work Type:
Full-time W2 employment, visa sponsorship is not available for this position at this time.

• People management: Lead and develop a team of software engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, goal setting, and performance management.
• Career development: Help engineers understand expectations at their level, identify development opportunities, and build actionable plans for continued growth.
• Performance management: Set clear expectations, recognize strong performance, address performance gaps directly and constructively, and lead formal performance review processes.
• Team health: Build an inclusive, accountable, and supportive team environment where engineers can collaborate effectively and do their best work.
• Hiring & onboarding: Partner with recruiting and engineering leadership to evaluate talent, hire strong engineers, and successfully onboard new team members.
• Resource management: Align engineering capacity and individual strengths with team priorities, assigning ownership in a way that supports both delivery and employee development.

• Technical direction: Partner with Senior and Staff Engineers to guide technical decisions, architecture, and implementation approaches within the team.
• Technical credibility: Stay sufficiently close to the code and systems to participate meaningfully in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem solving.
• Code & design review: Help maintain a high engineering bar through thoughtful review of code, system designs, architectural decisions, and implementation approaches.
• Engineering quality: Ensure the team maintains strong practices around testing, reliability, security, observability, maintainability, and production support.
• Technical problem solving: Help engineers navigate complex technical issues, elevate concerns appropriately, and bring in the right partners when problems span systems or teams.
• Tooling, automation & AI-assisted development: Encourage effective use of automation and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, debugging, testing, documentation, and delivery.

• Team delivery: Own the team’s ability to deliver high-quality software predictably while balancing business priorities, technical quality, and sustainable engineering practices.
• Planning & prioritization: Partner with Product and engineering leadership to translate priorities into clear plans, appropriately…