Engineering Manager (Seattle OR Denver)

Housing Connector • Denver, CO

28d • $155,000 - $195,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Housing Connector is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead, hire, and develop the team building products that help people access and maintain housing. The manager will coach engineers, contribute to technical work, and partner with product and design to turn user needs into reliable, useful software.

The products already support thousands of users, while parts of the platform are being rebuilt and improved. The role will help the team ship new capabilities, strengthen engineering practices, and make practical decisions about architecture, security, accessibility, and maintainability. The manager will help hire as the team grows and communicate engineering priorities and tradeoffs to leaders across the organization.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based in the Denver or Seattle metro area. Employees work in person from their local Housing Connector office one day per week. Denver-based employees should expect to travel to Seattle approximately once per quarter for team meetings and collaboration.

Housing Connector is a tech-for-good nonprofit that partners with property owners and managers to reduce barriers to housing, alongside community organizations, government, and philanthropy. Its technology and support model aims to create simpler, scalable pathways to housing.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing and developing software engineers, including giving feedback, setting priorities, and supporting performance and growth.
• Recent hands-on experience building and shipping web applications, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure, with the ability to work effectively in a multi-PaaS tech stack.
• Strong working knowledge of web frameworks, SQL, API and database design, and software quality assurance.
• Sound judgment about technical tradeoffs, including when to improve an existing system and when to keep delivery moving.
• Experience partnering with product and design to understand user needs and shape solutions before implementation.
• Ability to explain technical decisions and risks clearly to people who do not work in engineering.
• Experience defining standards and policies around data privacy, security, and accessibility.
• Experience embedding AI assistance across the SDLC and implementing rigor and discipline around reviewing AI-generated or AI-assisted code.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, and support for their growth.
• Identify future talent needs, lead hiring and selection, and help new engineers onboard and become effective.
• Partner with product and design to shape priorities, plan work, make realistic commitments, and communicate delivery risks early.
• Contribute hands-on through coding, design discussions, code review, and solving complex technical problems.
• Guide technical decisions across application architecture, APIs, data, testing, releases, security, and infrastructure.
• Build shared understanding of the platform and improve practices that help the team deliver reliably as it grows.
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and capacity needs to organizational leaders, including contributing to board updates when needed.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans; the company pays 100% of employee premiums and 50% of partners’ or dependents’ premiums.
• 22+ days of PTO in the first year and dedicated Community Service Leave.
• Holiday schedule that includes a full week off in December.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA, DCRA) for health and dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) with a 6% employer match.
• Annual professional development reimbursement up to $500.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed