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Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.What We Do\nRemote Work WelcomeBe part of a transformative engineering organization that is shaping how First American builds and delivers world-class AI-native technology products that power the real estate industry.\nWe are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives at building high-performing engineering teams, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work, and delivering meaningful business outcomes through strong execution, technical leadership, and operational excellence.\nAs an Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more distributed engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and operating modern cloud-native and AI-powered software systems. You'll partner closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, and fellow Engineering leaders to translate strategy into outcomes while developing engineers, improving engineering effectiveness, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.\nWhat You'll Do:\nBuild High-Performing Engineering Teams\nCreate an inclusive, psychologically safe environment where engineers are empowered to grow, collaborate, and deliver exceptional results.\nCoach engineers through regular feedback, career development, performance management, and mentoring while raising the overall technical and leadership capability of the team.\nBuild strong hiring pipelines, make thoughtful hiring decisions, and continuously raise the engineering talent bar.\nDrive Delivery Excellence\nOwn predictable delivery for one or more engineering teams by establishing clear priorities, effective planning mechanisms, and strong execution discipline.\nRemove obstacles, manage competing priorities, and ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality software aligned with business objectives.\nMeasure team health using engineering and operational metrics, continuously improving velocity, quality, and customer outcomes.\nPartner Across Functions\nCollaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Security, and Business stakeholders to align roadmaps, clarify priorities, and ensure engineering investments deliver measurable customer and business value.\nHelp translate ambiguous business problems into executable engineering plans while balancing technical health with product delivery.\nBuild AI-Native Engineering Teams\nChampion the responsible adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle.\nEnsure engineers effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies to accelerate software development while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and engineering judgment.\nPartner with technical leaders to evaluate opportunities for AI-powered products and agentic systems while ensuring appropriate governance, observability, and operational safeguards.\nEstablish Operational Excellence\nBuild engineering systems that enable reliable software delivery through strong operational practices.\nEnsure teams consistently deliver software that is:\n- secure\n- observable\n- resilient\n- scalable\n- maintainable\nDrive continuous improvements through metrics, postmortems, incident reviews, SLOs, automation, and engineering health initiatives.\nChampion operational discipline as an everyday engineering practice rather than a reactive activity.\nDevelop Engineering Systems\nCreate mechanisms that improve team effectiveness and predictability.\nThis includes:\n- planning and estimation\n- sprint and release processes\n- engineering metrics\n- on-call readiness\n- documentation\n- technical debt management\n- development workflows\n- continuous improvement\nContinuously identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce friction, and improve engineering productivity.\nProvide Technical Leadership\nGuide technical decision-making without becoming the bottleneck for engineering execution.\nReview architecture and design proposals, encourage sound engineering tradeoffs, and ensure solutions remain maintainable, scalable, and aligned with organizational standards.\nPartner with senior and staff engineers to evolve technical direction while empowering engineers to make strong technical decisions independently.\nWhat You'll Bring:\n7+ years of experience building production software systems, including experience leading engineering teams\nDemonstrated experience managing software engineers and building high-performing engineering teams\nStrong experience delivering cloud-native, distributed software systems in production\nExperience establishing engineering processes that improve delivery predictability, software quality, and operational excellence\nStrong understanding of modern software architecture, cloud infrastructure, APIs, distributed systems, and software engineering best practices\nExperience using business and engineering metrics and operational data to improve team effectiveness and customer outcomes\nExperience coaching engineers through performance, career growth, feedback, and mentorship\nExperience partnering effectively with Product Management, Design, Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders\nStrong understanding of iterative, metrics driven software development and continuous delivery; you live and breathe DORA.\nExperience adopting AI-assisted software development tools to accelerate delivery of business value.\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to influence, align stakeholders, and drive decisions across technical and business teams\nStrong judgment balancing customer needs, technical health, organizational priorities, and long-term sustainability\nIdeally, You'll Also Have Experience With:\nAI platforms such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or Databricks\nAI-assisted development tools including Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar\nModern backend development using C# (.NET), Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar technologies\nKubernetes and containerized application platforms\nInfrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDK, or similar technologies\nObservability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar\nEngineering organizations operating in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, or Healthcare\nLeading geographically distributed engineering teams\nPay Range: $148,600.00 - $198,200.00 AnnuallyThis hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.\n** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **\nFirst American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).\nFirst American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.\nWhat We Offer\nBy choice, we don’t simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. 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