Software Engineering Manager
Come join one of the best places to work in Denver! At Homebot, we believe that every team member has an important role to play in bringing our mission statement to life. How do we do this? By keeping a clear focus on culture and engagement, and creating an environment where people are valued! We’re looking for enthusiastic innovators to join us!
We connect people to make informed homeownership decisions together. Homebot is a Homeownership Intent Platform that surfaces actionable data first so our customers can capture the client before the competition. Homebot drives repeat and referral business to our customers through our personalized financial dashboards.
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented Engineers who build amazing products for our customers.
This is a full-time position based in our Denver, CO office. (We have a hybrid work model in place that allows employees to split their time between working in-office and from home a few days a week.)
Compensation: We are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. This role has an annual targeted base salary range of $165,000 - $195,000, plus an annual 10% performance bonus target. You will also be eligible to participate in Homebot’s Equity Appreciation Rights Program. For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “Why Homebot?” at the end of this job description.
What You’ll Be Accountable For as a Manager:
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions
- Manage team hiring, onboarding, and growth
- Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement
- Oversee on-call rotations and incident management processes
- Provide regular updates to leadership on team progress and challenges
- Manage team budget and resource allocation
- Build strong partnerships with product engineering teams and other stakeholders
The impact you’ll make by joining us:
Leadership Impact:
- Lead and mentor a team of 4 engineers across Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE disciplines
- Partner with Director of Engineering to develop technical strategy and roadmaps for infrastructure, developer experience, and platform reliability
- Drive team performance through clear goal setting, regular feedback, and career development planning
- Establish and maintain team working agreements, engineering standards, and operational practices
- Manage team capacity, sprint planning, and project delivery while maintaining operational excellence
- Build strong relationships across R&D organization to understand needs and align platform initiatives
Technical Leadership:
- Maintain hands-on involvement in architecture decisions and technical direction
- Actively participate in code and design reviews
- Contribute to critical projects through direct development when needed
- Guide implementation of best practices in infrastructure, security, and developer tooling
- Balance technical debt, feature development, and operational stability
- Drive continuous improvement in deployment processes, monitoring, and incident response
- Ensure maintenance of SOC2 controls and compliance requirements
Experience & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with focus on infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, and developer tooling
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and modern deployment practices
- Track record of delivering large-scale technical initiatives
- Background in developing internal platforms and developer experience improvements
- Experience managing teams in a high-growth environment
Technical Skills:
- Hands-on experience with:
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Programming languages (Go, Python, or similar)
- AWS services and architecture
- CI/CD systems and automation
- Observability and monitoring tools
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements
- Ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies
Characteristics of a Homebot Engineer:
- A positive, solution-oriented thinker who takes initiative and adds value
- A fast learner and excited to help where needed
- A mentor to peers and likes to help others grow
- A pragmatist who places a high value on code quality
- A strong understanding of the value tests provide to a codebase
About Homebot Engineering:
Building amazing products begins with great people. We are a team that believes in what we do and care for each other. Our processes are a reflection of that. We have agile planning and development processes. We craft our code with care - leaning on clean code and clean architecture, always keeping in mind how a new engineer would understand it. Testing is important to us to better document and create confidence in deliveries. Cross team collaboration is valued and we believe it enhances a greater team culture.
If this opportunity gets you pumped - perfect! Apply below and we look forward to speaking with you very soon! (We also read cover letters so take a moment to tell us what makes you a great fit for us!)
Culture and Values Mission
Homebot values and is enriched by a variety of perspectives. We believe that everyone comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. With that, we’re committed to ensuring equity within as many aspects of our organization as we can.
Homebot is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all applicants to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation including transgender status, national origin/ancestry, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, marital status, familial status or veteran status. We also encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description :)
Who We Strive To Be as Homebotters:
- We are Humbly Hungry
- We are Courageously Authentic
- We Challenge Limiting Beliefs
- We Keep our Eye on the Ball, Hand in the Dirt
- We win, lose and grow as a team, together!
Read about how we rolled out these values to the organization!
Why Homebot?
We believe in a collaborative, fun work environment. And when we say we have an awesome culture, we mean it. The team members, aka Homebotters, are not only passionate about our product, but also about how they interact with each other. We push ourselves every day to be better, challenge each other to continuously grow, and to have fun doing it. We are professional when we need to be and goofy when it’s time to celebrate a win. We realize we might be a little biased so we encourage you to check out our Glassdoor reviews and visit BuiltinColorado’s Best Places to Work list (#57), 50 Best Startups to Work For in Colorado (#5), and 50 Best U.S. Startup Companies (#40) for 2025!
With the mortgage and tech industries being highly male-dominated, we're proud to be a tech company in the mortgage space with ~40% female employees across the organization.
Want to learn more about Homebot, check us out on BuiltInCO!
We appreciate and value what our team members do every day, so we offer some amazing benefits to reward them:
Perks/Benefits:
- Medical (Aetna) / Dental (Aetna) / Vision (VSP)
- Homebot covers 99% for the employee and 70% for dependents *For 2 PPO plans
- 401(k) match
- Homebot matches 100% on the first 3% and an additional 50% on the next 2% (Homebotter contributes 5% and receives 4% from Homebot!)
- Pet insurance
- Legal insurance
- Flexible Vacation Policy - we believe in taking care of yourself & rewarding team members so we offer a flexible time off policy!
- 6 days of Sick/Mental Health time
- Paid Parental Leave - 12 Weeks!
- Access to Wellhub (previously known as Gympass)
- Hybrid Working Model - Blend Work From Home and In-Office Days
- Budget for Home Office Setup
- Denver EcoPass for light rail and bus system
- Office location in downtown Denver (modern, spacious 4-story with top floor deck ⛰)
- Weekly catered lunches in-office on Thursdays
- Nitro cold brew, french press, and snacks (vegan, gluten-free and food allergy safe options available)
- Stocked beer/wine fridge
- Fun quarterly events like Rockies games, holiday parties, etc.
- Awesome culture! Awesome coworkers! (seriously, have you seen Glassdoor?)
- We give back to the community (Habitat for Humanity, Metro Caring, Giving Tree)
- Open work environment with sit/stand desks
- Financial Wellness Program
- Free Employee Assistance Program & Mental Health Coaches
- Educational Assistance Program
- Annual Training Budget for Professional Development