The U.S. mortgage market is a $14 trillion pillar of the economy — and much of it still runs on fax machines, overnight shipping, and manual workflows. Snapdocs is changing that. Our platform currently powers 20% of all real estate closings in the country, and we’re just getting started.
We design workflow software and AI-driven automation that connects lenders, settlement teams, notaries, and investors — eliminating friction, reducing risk, and delivering a faster, simpler closing for every borrower. Our customers range from the largest mortgage lenders to independent title companies. They trust us because we solve real operational pain with empathy, rigor, and reliability.
We’re backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator, and F-Prime, and we’re building for the long term.
The Opportunity
Mortgage closing sits at the center of one of the largest, most fragmented financial transactions in the US. The process is long, multi-party by nature, and still mostly manual in ways that cost real time and money for everyone involved. Snapdocs has spent the better part of a decade automating it. Today the company connects hundreds of lenders and thousands of settlement professionals, signing services, and notaries into a single digital closing platform. Backed by Sequoia Capital and on a clear path to sustainable growth, Snapdocs is the operating standard for digital mortgage closing, built to ride out rate cycles and expand well beyond them.
Our engineering organization is structured around focused product pods, each owning a distinct surface of the platform. We are looking for a senior engineering manager to lead multiple pods.
The Role
You'll own one of our core engineering pods from day one, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The starting footprint is 8 direct reports, engineers from senior to associate, with a second pod coming online within 3 to 6 months as your leadership of the first is established. Fully ramped, you're managing 12 or more engineers across two product domains.
This role calls for someone technically present. The team includes Staff and Senior engineers doing strong work. What they need is a manager who can engage with them at a real level: giving architectural feedback that lands, caring about code quality in ways that earn credibility, and thinking about AI not as a productivity shortcut but as a reason to rethink how a software team operates. If that's the kind of engineering manager you are, this is a good fit.
Key Responsibilities
Own day-to-day execution of your engineering pod: sprint planning, delivery, and team health
Partner closely with product managers to align on quarterly goals, clear blockers, and keep work pointed in the right direction
Work alongside engineering leadership and the engineering team on architectural decisions, shaping them, not just attending them
Take on a second engineering pod within 3 to 6 months as your leadership of the first team is established
Lead full performance management for 8 to 12 engineers: 1:1s, twice-annual reviews, coaching plans, and promotion recommendations
Translate emergent AI strategies into team-level execution; partner across the org to test and refine workflows, review cycles, and SDLC practices as engineering-wide standards take shape.
Qualifications & Experience
7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in full stack web application development
4+ years managing engineering teams, including experience managing multiple concurrent teams or pods
Track record of shipping software across an agile SDLC, with a bias towards rapid, iterative development and constantly shortening the feedback loop
Strong partner to product management who looks beyond the tech stack; possesses the business curiosity and customer insights necessary to make decisive product calls and navigate complex cross-functional trade-offs
Full-range people management experience: growing high performers, supporting struggling ones, and hiring new ones
Technical grounding strong enough to give credible feedback on code and architectural decisions
Informed point of view on AI in software engineering, you've thought about how the process changes, not just the speed
Experience with Ruby on Rails and React are a plus
Compensation & Benefits
We believe in being upfront about pay. The base salary range for this role is determined by your work location and falls into one of our geographic compensation zones:
Zone 1 (San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, New York City): $188,000-$235,000
Zone 2 (All other U.S. locations): $164,500 - $205,500
Where you land within the range depends on your experience, skills, and how you'll make an impact in the role. In addition to base salary, this position includes meaningful equity and a comprehensive benefits package.
Why Snapdocs
We’re here to transform one of the most critical and complex industries in the world. That requires a team that is curious, driven, thoughtful, and practical. We value:
Product discipline and clear reasoning
Deep ownership of outcomes (not just tasks)
Straightforward, honest communication
Empathy for the people who use our software
This is a place for people who want to solve hard, meaningful problems with real economic impact — not just ship features.
Join Us
We’re expanding our product suite and the network it connects. To do that, we need people who are excited by complexity, energized by scale, and motivated to make a tangible dent in how the mortgage ecosystem works. If you’re hungry to learn, build, and lead — you’ll do the best work of your career here.
To support our team, we offer a comprehensive & thoughtful benefits package for all full-time employees, which includes:
Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) with up to 4% company match
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible Paid Vacation Time Off + 10 Sick Days for exempt roles
Generous Accrued Paid Vacation Time Off + 10 sick days for non-exempt roles
Summer & Winter Break (~1-week each) + 9 Holidays per year
Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
HSA Employer Contribution ($75-150 for individuals, $150-$250 for families)
$15K Family Building Benefit (lifetime limit)
Life and Disability Insurance
$1,500 Annual Lifestyle Stipend to support your well-being
Please note: Part-time employees are not eligible for benefits at this time
Snapdocs is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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