Associate Manager - Engineering

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Job Summary

nCino is looking for an Associate Manager lead the Mortgage Engineering team focused on Admin Experience, which builds solutions that empower our clients’ administrators to configure and maintain our mortgage suite at each institution. These administrators decide how the suite fits their organization, so the tools this team builds shape how every loan team works day to day. The Associate Manager leads software engineers through the full development lifecycle, owning execution and stepping in hands on when needed. Guiding code quality practices and building scalable, maintainable software on AWS keep the platform dependable as institutions grow. Coaching engineers, applying AI to development work, and partnering with senior leaders on hiring and performance round out the role.

The ideal candidate is a technically grounded leader who gets as much energy from growing people as from building great cloud software. Experience leading engineers in a large organization, ideally on cloud platforms like AWS, brings an intuitive edge to this work. While this team has a high preference of this work being hybrid from our office in Lehi, UT, we are open to excellent candidates working in a remote capacity. 

Responsibilities

• Manages the day-to-day execution of software engineering team and the delivery of projects, providing hands-on support as needed

• Focus on improving team processes, collaboration, and code quality, ensuring best practices are followed to enhance maintainability, performance, and scalability

• Support, guide, and empower the daily activities of employees, delegating the team’s work assignments and outputs, establishing deadlines, and verifying accuracy of work. May assist in completion of team’s work assignments

• Provide training and professional development of team members; participate in the hiring selection and performance management of team members with senior leaders

• Leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance software development activities, including code generation, testing, debugging, and optimization.

• Apply AI insights to identify patterns, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall development efficiency and product quality.

• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities where appropriate to strengthen product functionality and user experience.

• Maintain awareness of emerging AI trends and best practices to inform continuous learning and innovation.

 

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of relevant experience and 1+year of management experience or combination of education and experience

• Proficiency in at least one major programming language

• Understanding of software engineering principles, including system design, architecture, and development practices,

• Experience in a fast-paced development environment, with a focus on improving development practices and processes to enhance team efficiency, collaboration, and code quality in a large-scale organization

• Proven success as a coach and mentor of technical staff

• Demonstrated dedication to quality and continuous improvement

• Ability to motivate yourself and others, prioritize your own work, and adapt and thrive in a dynamic team environment

• Excellent problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

 

Desired:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification

• Experience with the AWS platform

• Experience with Ruby and Vue.js

The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.

The base salary range for this job is:$107,900—$183,400 USD

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at recruiting@ncino.com. 

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