Manager, Engineering

Unlock the Power of You

At Invitation Homes, our associates are the foundation of our success. We connect your work to real impact, invest in your growth, and welcome you to feel at home — because care isn't just something we say, it's something you experience.

Who We Are

Invitation Homes owns and operates homes in great neighborhoods across 16+ top U.S. markets. We continue to innovate with smart home technology, an industry-leading maintenance app, and other lifestyle-enhancing services that make leasing easier than owning.

The Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to step into people leadership on the engineering management track, multiplying impact through your people rather than your own code. Our engineering teams build the technology at the center of the resident experience: personalized resident experiences, service tools, and the operational systems that residents and associates depend on every day. You’ll remain technically grounded — credible in design discussions, fluent in your team’s systems — while focusing on building the conditions for your team to do great work. Think of yourself as a player-coach, with a clear path to Sr. Engineering Manager as your leadership scope and organizational reach grow.

What you'll do day-to-day:

Technical Leadership

• Stay technically grounded: participate in design discussions, understand the systems your team builds, and engage directly when your team needs your depth.

• Shape the technical direction of your team’s work in partnership with your engineers — and engage in technical conversations across the broader engineering organization to promote consistency and share perspective.

• Remove blockers: resolve ambiguities, clear organizational friction, and escalate where needed to keep your team moving.

• Own the health of your team’s systems — advocate for reliability, maintainability, and automation alongside delivery.

• Evaluate technical risk and help your team make sound decisions, even when the path forward isn’t clear.

Knowledge & Standards

• Maintain a deep understanding of your team’s systems, technical stack, and the challenges they face.

• Understand how your team’s work connects to business goals, customer experience, and company strategy.

• Use delivery data, team health signals, and engineering metrics to understand what’s working and what needs attention.

• Stay current in engineering and management practices — bring what you learn back to your team and your peers.

Communication & Collaboration

• Communicate clearly and proactively with your team, stakeholders, and engineering leadership — especially when the news is hard.

• Translate technical context for non-technical partners, and business context for your engineers.

• Provide feedback — to your team and upward — that is clear, specific, and actionable.

• Resolve ambiguity and conflict constructively; create space for healthy disagreement and clear, committed action.

Leadership & Culture

• Build a high-performing, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment where engineers can do their best work.

• Coach and develop your engineers through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and deliberate career growth conversations.

• Manage performance with clarity and care — address gaps early and invest in growth before it becomes a problem.

• Lead hiring end-to-end: build strong pipelines, represent Invitation Homes well to candidates, and champion a great candidate and new hire experience.

• Delegate effectively, trust your team, and hold them accountable for their commitments.

• Model the values and behaviors you want to see — curiosity, humility, a bias to action, and genuine care for others.

What You Bring

We’re looking for a technically credible leader who finds meaning in developing people and building the conditions for teams to do their best work — someone who cares more about depth of thinking, adaptability, and the drive to keep learning than familiarity with any specific tool.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience leading technical work within or across teams

• Demonstrated technical credibility — you can engage meaningfully in design decisions and understand the systems your team owns

• Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with a track record of helping others grow

• Clear, effective communication skills — written and verbal — with the ability to build trust across technical and non-technical audiences

• A record of navigating ambiguity, resolving conflict, and creating clarity for those around you

• A genuine investment in others — you find meaning in developing people and building the conditions for teams to do their best work

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD practices, and modern iterative software delivery

• Preferred: experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, and AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS), REST APIs and event-driven architectures, infrastructure as code, and Salesforce

Education/Certifications:

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Why Invitation Homes

We believe when our residents thrive, our associates thrive. Here, you're not just filling a role — you're building a career at a company that invests in your growth and welcomes you for who you are.

What's in it for you

• Competitive pay and annual bonus program for all associates

• Generous PTO including vacation accrual, sick time, volunteer time, and standard and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Casual dress code and a genuinely great work environment

• Team events, celebrations, and a culture that values connection

• Employee Resource Groups: Together with Women, Asian Alliance, Black Collective, Juntos, Gen Next, and Open Invitation

• Career growth paths and learning opportunities — we promote from within

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is: $120,000.00 - $208,000.00, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws.

Compensation and Benefits

To attract and retain top talent, we're pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits, including:

• Annual bonus program

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Generous paid time off plans include vacation accrual, sick time, standard holidays and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)

Invitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. 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, Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at humanresources@invitationhomes.com.

To all recruitment agencies: Invitation Homes does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward resumes to Invitation Homes employees.  Invitation Homes is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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