Tech Lead Manager

Engineering at Valon

We are building a world-class engineering team to disrupt one of the most archaic spaces in the financial sector — the mortgage and homeownership industry. You’ll join a small, tight-knit group of engineers from companies like Google, Facebook, Spotify, and Twilio who are turning incredibly complex challenges into elegant solutions for homeowners. We’re building a platform that efficiently and accurately handles billions of dollars at scale, creates a great experience for homeowners, and quickly delivers high-quality features. We’re serving tens of thousands of homeowners across the country on our technology platform — the next step is to continually improve our systems and scale to millions of homeowners across the country. Our tech stack is built on Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.

We’re looking for a Tech Lead Manager to support Valon’s growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll lead 3+ engineers across one team, working closely with your reports and partnering with product, design, and operations to build the future of Valon. You’ll empower your team through mentorship, defining long-term strategy, strong technical leadership, business acumen, and more to ensure maximum impact and business value. You’ll also make hands-on engineering contributions to Valon’s core product with a focus on technical design and an opportunity to work across the stack. 

Responsibilities 

• Build and develop an incredibly talented team of driven, high performing engineers.

• Design and build robust and extensible infrastructure to handle evolving and complex federal, state, and agency regulations

• Partner with product managers, designers, and business operations to develop the execution and long term strategy for your team.

• Partner with engineering managers to build a cohesive engineering culture and direction for Valon overall.

• Set a high standard for your team with strong technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship.

• Solve business problems that directly impact homeowners using technology and innovation.

• Define and evangelize new processes to make your team more effective and deliver an outsized impact.

• Push for continuous improvements and innovation using data-driven decisions.

• Actively participate in software development, including coding, debugging, and testing activities.

• Collaborate with the team to design and implement scalable, robust, and high-quality software solutions.

Ideal Background

• At least 1+ years in a management or leadership role, successfully leading and managing software engineering teams.

• At least 4+ years of software engineering experience building out distributed systems.

• Experience working in a highly complex and technical environment.

• Experience working at a fast paced and ambiguous startup environment.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

• Demonstrates excellent judgment, problem solving, and decision making.

Benefits

What we can offer: 

• Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program and 401k plan 

• Health & well-being: we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits, One medical membership, and Talkspace to provide mental health support

• Food & meals: in-office snacks and drinks, and $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries 

• Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient.

• Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback

• Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes or team dinners!

• Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays 

• Baby bonding time!: 3 months off for birthing parents and 2 months off for non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition