Automation Engineering Manager Jobs in Riverside, CA

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

About you

You are a natural leader, care deeply about people and their career development, self-driven, conscientious, fiscally responsible, self-aware, passionate and compassionate engineering leader. You are comfortable with ambiguity, eternally curious, and love problem solving. You operate as an owner and work with a growth mindset. You can define a vision for your area of ownership, building a culture that fosters freedom and responsibility and inspires innovation. You are technically deep in all areas of the product development life cycle, capable of designing architecture and rolling up your sleeps when needed. You act as a multiplier collaborating with others. You are tireless in questioning the status quo and pursue the best answers to the hardest problems to the benefit of the business. Your focus is strong and capable of context switching and pivoting with the business. In the vacuum of leadership, you assume it. You arent just an engineering leader; you are a game changer.

The Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, requiring a blend of technical knowledge, managerial expertise, and interpersonal skills. They lead technical initiatives, guide engineering teams, and ensure the successful execution of projects. The role includes participating in architectural reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and implementing both functional and non-functional requirements of software systems.

Additionally, the Software Engineering Manager promotes and integrates DevOps best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives, feedback loops, and process enhancements. They develop and maintain a comprehensive live site rotation schedule to ensure 24/7 support coverage by training and mentoring team members, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to handle live site issues effectively.

The manager acts as the primary point of contact for live site incidents, overseeing the triage process and conducting root cause analyses. They document and communicate incident reports, resolutions, and lessons learned to relevant stakeholders, ensuring transparency and continuous improvement.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Capable of managing a team of developers, providing feedback and training where necessary, assisting with recruitment, and ensure that technical initiatives align with organizational goals working closely with Principal Engineers / Development Directors
• As a Development Manager, lead, coach and mentor developers assigned to the product/project ensuring performance, maintainability, and functional requirements from design, development, testing to rollout and support
• Setting performance goals, providing regular feedback, conducting performance reviews, and facilitating professional development.
• The Software Engineering Manager role involves hands-on work and requires writing code:
• Work with cross-engineering staff, collaborating on hardware and system monitoring requirements to ensure expected performance and reliability of the application / system developed:
• Proactively communicate and work to mitigate changes to project timelines, degradation in performance of applications, participate in Site Event Escalation process / on-Call duties:

The Ideal Candidate:

Education:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or computer science, or related industry experience

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience in business process automation applications.
• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience as a Tech Lead
• 1-3 years of managing a team of developers
• A minimum of 8 years experience in .Net, C#, Windows tools, ASP.net, and languages as well as modern web frameworks (Angular via Typescript, React)
• Understanding of Relational and NoSQL Databases, preferably MSSQL and MongDB, data modeling, and strong experience with ORM toolkits a must.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, Domain Driven Design, Test/Behavior Driven Design, Event Driven via Asynchronous messaging approaches
• Preferred Experience: ASP.NET, WCF, Web Services, NServiceBus, Message queues, Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Preferred AI Experience: spec-driven development, tool proficiency (Claude, OpenAI, Vercel), prompt and plan engineering, ML anomaly detection, agent and subagent assisted development, security and oversight, MCP, and RAG implementations

Specialized Skills:

• Understanding of consumer Lending business
• Must have a very good understanding of design patterns.
• Collaborating with other departments (Product, Engineering, etc.) and teams to complete cross-departmental dependencies.
• Can effectively lead / participate in technical initiatives, collaborative design/requirements meetings while gathering the necessary information for software development.
• Ownership and accountability mindset, decision making along with communication and analytical skills that helps to partner with Product Owners and cross functional teams.
• Ensuring that the software development process prioritizes user needs and delivers a high-quality user experience.
• Developing long-term strategies for software development that align with organizational goals.
• Coaching team members to improve their performance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Leadership qualities, an excellent team player with the ability to handle stressful situations.
• The individual has expertise or curiosity to learn in their chosen technology stack and have a broader knowledge of various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Using their expertise to manage the design of projects deadlines, priorities, and deliverables.
• Brings experience and understanding of the application domain, enabling insightful decisions and innovative problem-solving.
• Ability to work in fast paced / flexible environment that practices SAFe / Agile based SDLC.
• Performing quality control and resolving structural design and other issues throughout the software implementation stages
• Inspiring and motivating team members, fostering a positive work environment, and encouraging innovation and creativity.

Why you should apply:

• Flexible Working Environment
• Paid Time Off
• 401k (8% match)
• College Tuition Benefits/ Tuition Reimbursement
• Good Benefits options
• Company Culture! Cultural and Holiday celebrations, Theme days like Star Wars Day & Bring your Kids to Work Day, Monthly Townhalls and Quarterly Company Meetings that ensure awareness, inclusion, and transparency.

The starting salary range for this full-time position in Irvine, CA is $147000 - $184900 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidates geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors. Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals. Bonuses are awarded at companys discretion on an individual basis.

Origence is an equal opportunity employer. All recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be based upon an individuals qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, military service, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.