Senior Manager, Engineering

The Opportunity

Mortgage closing sits at the center of one of the largest, most fragmented financial transactions in the US. The process is long, multi‑party by nature, and still mostly manual in ways that cost real time and money for everyone involved. Snapdocs has spent the better part of a decade automating it. Today the company connects hundreds of lenders and thousands of settlement professionals, signing services, and notaries into a single digital closing platform.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and on a clear path to sustainable growth, Snapdocs is the operating standard for digital mortgage closing, built to ride out rate cycles and expand well beyond them.

You’ll own one of our core engineering pods from day one, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The starting footprint is 8 direct reports, engineers from senior to associate, with a second pod coming online within 3 to 6 months as your leadership of the first is established. Fully ramped, you’re managing 12 or more engineers across two product domains. This role calls for someone technically present.

The team includes Staff and Senior engineers doing strong work. What they need is a manager who can engage with them at a real level: giving architectural feedback that lands, caring about code quality in ways that earn credibility, and thinking about AI not as a productivity shortcut but as a reason to rethink how a software team operates.

• Own day‑to‑day execution of your engineering pod: sprint planning, delivery, and team health
• Partner closely with product managers to align on quarterly goals, clear blockers, and keep work pointed in the right direction
• Work alongside engineering leadership and the engineering team on architectural decisions, shaping them, not just attending them
• Take on a second engineering pod within 3 to 6 months as your leadership of the first team is established
• Lead full performance management for 8 to 12 engineers: 1:1s, twice‑annual reviews, coaching plans, and promotion recommendations
• Translate emergent AI strategies into team‑level execution; partner across the org to test and refine workflows, review cycles, and SDLC practices as engineering‑wide standards take shape

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in full stack web application development
• 4+ years managing engineering teams, including experience managing multiple concurrent teams or pods
• Track record of shipping software across an agile SDLC, with a bias towards rapid, iterative development and constantly shortening the feedback loop
• Strong partner to product management who looks beyond the tech stack; possesses the business curiosity and customer insights necessary to make decisive product calls and navigate complex cross‑functional trade‑offs
• Full‑range people management experience: growing high performers, supporting struggling ones, and hiring new ones
• Technical grounding strong enough to give credible feedback on code and architectural decisions
• Informed point of view on AI in software engineering, you’ve thought about how the process changes, not just the speed
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and React are a plus

We believe in being upfront about pay. The base salary range for this role is determined by your work location and falls into one of our geographic compensation zones:

• Zone 1 (San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, New York City): $188,000–$235,000
• Zone 2 (All other U.S. locations): $164,500–$205,500

Where you land within the range depends on your experience, skills, and how you’ll make an impact in the role. In addition to base salary, this position includes meaningful equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

To support our team, we offer a comprehensive & thoughtful benefits package for all full‑time employees, which includes:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible Paid Vacation Time Off + 10 Sick Days for exempt roles
• Generous Accrued Paid Vacation Time Off + 10 sick days for non‑exempt roles
• Summer & Winter Break (~1‑week each) + 9 Holidays per…