Engineering Manager

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Regular Full-Time Associate Irvine, CA, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Engineering Manager leads the team that builds Core Vest’s lending technology — both Salesforce solutions and custom full-stack applications across origination, underwriting, pricing, and servicing. This is a player-coach role: approximately 80% hands‑on engineering leadership (architecture, design, code, and technical decisions) and 20% product (shaping what gets built and owning the technical roadmap alongside the Business Product Owner). The role manages a growing team and sets the engineering bar, and runs an AI‑native delivery model built for hypergrowth in a regulated lending business.

Include the following but not limited to; other duties may be assigned.

• Own system architecture and design across the Salesforce platform and custom-built solutions; make and defend build‑vs‑configure and integration trade‑offs.
• Set and enforce the engineering bar — code quality, performance, security, testability — at a level that holds up under Salesforce platform limits (governor limits, async and transaction boundaries, sharing and scale behavior, metadata and deployment discipline) and across custom services and integrations.
• Stay hands‑on: review designs and code, unblock the hardest technical problems, and ship alongside the team.
• Own delivery execution — estimates, technical commitments, release quality, and ongoing reduction of technical debt and resiliency risk.

• Translate prioritized business outcomes into a technical roadmap and architecture, and push back with informed trade‑offs rather than simply taking orders.
• Shape scope and sequencing so the roadmap is genuinely buildable and value lands fast.
• Manage a team, consisting of employees and contractors: set expectations, run the delivery cadence, and hold quality and accountability across a fluid roster.
• Mentor engineers, raise the bar, and turn a contractor‑heavy team into a dependable, high‑performing delivery engine.

• Drive an AI‑first build model — AI-assisted coding, code review, test generation, and documentation — to deliver materially faster.
• Continuously identify where AI changes how the team should work, and pivot tooling, workflow, and staffing accordingly.
• Upskill the whole team (contractors included) on AI tooling so speed gains are team‑wide, not individual.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 10+ years building enterprise software; 4+ years leading engineering teams, including distributed and contractor teams.
• Salesforce platform expertise — not just configuration, but internals:
  Apex at scale, governor limits, async patterns (Batch/Queueable/Platform Events), the sharing and security model, integration patterns, and deployment/Dev Ops discipline.
• Strong custom full‑stack engineering — able to architect and lead non‑Salesforce services, APIs, and integrations.
• Deep financial‑services / lending domain knowledge; understands the loan lifecycle and regulated‑environment constraints.
• Proven system architecture and design leadership across multiple solution types.
• Demonstrated talent management and growth in a fast‑moving environment.
• Hands‑on use of AI to accelerate software delivery, with a track record of changing how a team works to capture that speed.
• Hypergrowth mindset: thrives in ambiguity and speed while maintaining quality and governance.

• Experience with Loan Origination Systems (LOS), pricing engines, or underwriting engines; lending products such as DSCR, bridge, fix‑and‑flip, and build‑for‑rent.
• Experience modernizing legacy lending platforms or building greenfield fintech systems.
• Strong understanding of credit risk, pricing models, and capital markets implications.
• Experience scaling delivery in regulated, high‑growth environments.

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