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IT Engineering Manager

Cantor Fitzgerald
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Jul 2026
💰 $250,000/yr($200,000/yr – $250,000/yr)

About the role

  • Lead, grow, and retain multiple high-performing engineering teams spanning full-stack, data engineering, and AI/agentic AI builders.

  • Own end-to-end delivery, quality, reliability, and operational health of cloud-native platforms across front-end, backend, data, and AI layers.

  • Manage, mentor, and develop engineers and senior engineers; set clear goals, deliver performance reviews, and drive career growth.

  • Own hiring end to end, building strong, diverse teams through effective recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and workforce planning.

  • Set and enforce engineering standards and best practices for architecture, code quality, testing, security, and deployment, including responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

  • Partner with product, design, data, and business leadership to translate strategy into scalable technical roadmaps and prioritized execution plans.

  • Drive adoption of agentic AI, LLM tooling, and modern engineering practices to increase developer velocity and unlock new product capabilities.

  • Provide architectural guidance and lead technical design reviews across full-stack, data engineering, and AI initiatives.

  • Establish healthy Agile and delivery processes, metrics, and operational rigor, including planning, estimation, on-call, and incident management.

  • Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and coordination for complex, multi-quarter initiatives.

  • Foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, technical excellence, and continuous learning.

  • Communicate status, tradeoffs, and technical concepts clearly to both engineers and senior or executive stakeholders.

  • Balance hands-on technical involvement with people leadership, remaining credible and close to the work while leading through others.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field preferred.

  • 12+ years of experience in software or data engineering, including 4+ years directly managing engineering teams.

  • Proven track record of building, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

  • Broad technical breadth across full-stack web development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React; backend languages such as C#, Node.js, or Java), data engineering (SQL, Python, cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT), and AI (LLM and agentic AI, RAG).

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API design (REST/GraphQL), and cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

  • Experience delivering data platforms and pipelines, with familiarity with data modeling, governance, and/or master data management (MDM) concepts.

  • Hands-on familiarity building or integrating agentic AI and LLM-powered systems and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, MCP).

  • Strong grasp of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and DevOps/DataOps practices.

  • Excellent people leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

  • Proven ability to drive delivery across multiple teams and influence technical direction across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience managing managers or team leads within a multi-team organization.

  • Experience leading teams that have shipped AI/ML or agentic AI products to production at scale.

  • Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis).

  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, dbt).

  • Prior experience in commercial real estate, fintech, or operations/transaction systems.

  • Track record of speaking, writing, or open-source and community leadership, especially in applied AI.

Why Join Us?

  • Lead and shape the technical direction of business-critical platforms at enterprise scale, spanning full-stack, data, and next-generation agentic AI initiatives.

  • Build and grow a high-impact organization where ownership, innovation, and technical excellence drive success.

  • Competitive compensation, growth opportunities, and access to world-class engineering, data, and AI resources.

  • Collaborative Culture: Lead a high-caliber team with deep expertise across full-stack development, cloud, data engineering, and agentic AI.

  • Growth & Learning: Access world-class learning resources and mentorship to advance your career and those of your team.

  • Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and hybrid

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