Sr Software Engineering Manager

Open Lending provides automated lending services to financial institutions. The company specializes in loan analytics, risk-based pricing, risk modeling, and automated decision technology for automotive lenders throughout the United States. The company was founded in Austin, TX in 2000.

Before taking the company public in 2020, Open Lending ranked among Austin’s fastest-growing, privately held companies. Starting in 2013, the company placed for seven consecutive years on the Austin Business Journal’s Fast 50 list. Additionally, Open Lending has been named as a top workplace by both the Austin Business Journal and the Austin American Statesmen.

The Opportunity:

Join Open Lending's Engineering Leadership Team to help modernize our products and services to the latest and greatest cloud technologies. This includes helping design and build solutions following a microservices architecture while helping grow other engineers based on your professional experiences and skills. Beyond modernization efforts, participate in a wide range of new innovative product initiatives that will take our organization into the future.

Three Reasons to Apply:

LEADERSHIP - Lead, manage, and coach a team of software engineers while also being allocated time to be an individual contributor.

VALUE CREATION - You are looking to grow your career by becoming the bridge between product, engineering, and other stakeholders; delivering exceptional value and monitoring metrics to ensure sprint health, engineering health and creating predictable productivity.

CULTURE - A hybrid work schedule offers you the flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week, while enjoying our welcoming, work-hard play-hard culture and in-person collaboration.

What You’ll Do:

• Build Teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others, and keep everyone engaged and productive.
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code
• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company
• Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
• Create Results. You're proactive and hands-on. When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When you and your team deliver a finished product, it's as polished as you could make it.
• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, HTML/CSS, Javascript, TypeScript, SQL, Python, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Continuous Learning. You're always learning new technologies and processes with tools and other training courses, conferences, and operating with a "learn as you go" approach with a willingness to figure out new ways of doing things.
• Sharing Your Skills. You will actively collaborate with other associates to share ideas or show what you've learned. You are eager to learn, keep up with ever-changing technologies, and maintain the ability to create the best tools for our clients.
• Attack Challenges. Inevitable challenges will arise, and we'll rely on you to look for a solution.
• Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability
• Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team and look for opportunities to improve them.

What You Bring:

• Have a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or equivalent experience
• Have experience in building high availability, Cloud Native Web Applications at scale.
• Have 3+ years of leadership experience building and managing diverse development teams for software product delivery
• Have 7+ years development experience of large-scale business applications consisting of full stack web and cloud technologies
• Have experience with Agile development practices including Scum and Kanban.
• Experience working closely with DevOps utilizing CICD pipelines in Jenkins or Gihub hosted runners
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health.
• Demonstrate a high level of experience in system architecture, technical design and software development technology
• Have exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Have exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills
• Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example with Java, have a comprehensive understanding of Java 11, Hibernate, Maven, Jakarta or JavaX, Payara
• Experience with Payara, Open Liberty or Quarkus
• Strong SQL skills and understanding of use cases behind Relation and NoSql Databases
• Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience such as common design patterns, polymorphism and generics
• Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with user centered empathy
• A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
• Experience working with Azure Cloud Services.
• Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion
• Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model
• Experience Kubernetes and Docker is required.
• Experience migrating monolithic architecture to microservices architecture and good working knowledge of message queuing systems such as Kafka or Azure Service Bus

Benefits and Perks:

• Medical, dental, life and short-term and long-term disability insurance (company pays 100% of the premium for employee and 100% of the premiums for family plans after 2 years of coverage)
• Total annual cash compensation includes base salary and bonus, plus participation in the incentive plan for non-commissioned employees
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k plan with match
• Eligible for long-term equity compensation
• Free onsite covered parking (Austin office)
• Paid parental leave for new parents
• Onsite gym (Austin Office)
• Free snack options (Austin Office)