Manager, Software Engineering

*PLEASE NOTE: This role is open to candidates located in Charlotte, NC with hybrid attendance required. Hybrid requires in-person attendance at least 3 days a week (ideally Tuesday-Thursday) in our Charlotte, NC office. Additionally, this position does not offer visa sponsorship, now or in the future.*

About LendingTree

LendingTree is the nation's leading online financial services marketplace. We empower consumers to shop, compare, and save on financial products including mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, insurance, and more. Our mission is to help consumers make smarter financial decisions while creating innovative technology solutions that drive business growth and exceptional customer experiences.

Position Summary

LendingTree is seeking an experienced and passionate Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team of software engineers responsible for building and scaling customer-facing and internal technology platforms. This leader will play a critical role in developing engineering talent, driving technical excellence, delivering high-impact business initiatives, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. The candidate will manage the team resources for a lead matching system where the end user submits a request for help finding lenders to match their need. The system interacts with multiple distributed systems like SalesForce and inhouse applications. The team currently consists of 4 software engineers and 2 testing engineers. The candidate will be responsible for managing the development engineers, guiding the development team towards long term goals, interacting with stakeholders and managing expectations.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership, with a special emphasis on AI experience and the ability lead the team(s) to drive to an AI development landscape. They will also exhibit technical depth, excel at cross-functional collaboration, and have a proven track record of delivering complex software solutions in fast-paced, data-driven environments.

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, and career development planning.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, succession planning, and employee development activities.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard top engineering talent.
• Promote engineering best practices and create opportunities for technical growth across the team.

Technical Leadership

• Partner with engineers, architects and stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Guide technical decision-making and help balance short-term business needs with long-term platform health.
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards, automated testing, observability, and operational maturity.
• Ensure systems meet performance, reliability, availability, and security expectations.
• Support modernization efforts, cloud adoption initiatives, and platform improvements.

Delivery & Execution

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and business stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities.
• Manage delivery of complex software projects from concept through production.
• Establish clear team goals, success metrics, and execution plans.
• Identify and remove organizational and technical obstacles that impact delivery.
• Monitor team performance, delivery predictability, and operational health.

Collaboration & Business Impact

• Translate business objectives into actionable engineering plans.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Data, and Operations teams.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions and technology roadmap development.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Champion customer-centric thinking and data-informed decision making.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including direct people management responsibilities.
• Experience with AI, and leading teams to drive to an AI development landscape.
• Experience delivering distributed, cloud-based applications in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and modern development practices.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

• Experience building consumer-facing digital products at scale.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with modern web technologies and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience leading teams working with Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, or similar technologies.

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices. Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.

Incentive Compensation: Annual bonus opportunity

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) matching, life insurance, pet insurance, and a competitive PTO (paid time off) policy

The base pay range for this position in Seattle/New York/Colorado/California is $150,000 to 200,000 however, base pay offered may vary depending on internal factors, job-related knowledge, and experience.

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

This is an opportunity for full-time employment. Please no third parties or Corp to Corp.