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Salary: USD 190,000 - 220,000 / annual
TheGuarantors is a fintech company protecting multifamily operators from leasing risk while expanding renter access. The company works with 9 of the top 10 US operators, has protected $7B+ in lease value, and is the #1 lease guarantee provider nationwide. It has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000's fastest-growing companies, Forbes' Best Startup Employers, and Deloitte's Technology Fast 500.
You will lead a distributed team of 4–6 engineers building the Landlord Portal and related products that property managers use to interact with TheGuarantors. The Landlord Experience team owns key self-service features including application tracking, renter invitations, lease details, onboarding, renewals, and landlord payments.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management. You will guide architecture decisions, review designs and code, and selectively implement solutions to unblock the team. You will multiply team effectiveness through sound technical decisions, better engineering practices, and coaching that helps engineers take greater ownership.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own technical direction: Guide architecture across the Landlord Portal, Application Tracker, and renter invitation flows. Balance business needs with scalability, maintainability, and security while addressing technical debt and modernizing legacy systems.
- Raise engineering standards: Strengthen code and design reviews, testing, observability, and release practices. Contribute targeted implementations and improve tooling to resolve blockers.
- Build a high-performing team: Continuously improve planning, collaboration, and execution to deliver high-quality software predictably and sustainably.
- Lead and develop engineers: Set clear expectations, provide actionable feedback, and support career growth. Encourage constructive technical debate and shared ownership.
- Turn priorities into results: Partner with Product, Design, and QA to scope and sequence the roadmap. Align commitments with capacity and identify risks early.
- Own operational reliability: Maintain effective monitoring, runbooks, and follow-the-sun on-call coverage for critical landlord workflows. Lead technical response during major incidents.
- Lead across team boundaries: Coordinate changes to shared applications and services with peer engineering teams. Keep partners and leadership informed of delivery risks and team health concerns.
The tech stack includes TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Go, REST and GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Experience modernizing legacy systems or building self-service products is valuable.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team as a Tech Lead, Tech Lead Manager, or Engineering Manager. Strong prior track record as a senior/staff-level fullstack engineer.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to evaluate designs, review code, implement solutions, and troubleshoot production systems. Hands-on experience in fullstack development (TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Go preferred).
- Fluency in API design, data modeling, performance, and security: schema and API design (REST/GraphQL), PostgreSQL and Redis performance and scaling, and operational characteristics of production services.
- Experience delivering customer-facing products across multiple services and team dependencies.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and building/operating distributed, service-oriented architectures.
- Track record of turning ambiguous requirements in high-growth environments into achievable plans and balancing product priorities with technical investment.
- Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with comfort leading a distributed team.
