Director of Engineering

Posted 12 Days Ago
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Remote
Senior level
Real Estate
The Role
Zeus Living is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead and grow our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and mentorship skills, experience in architectural decision-making, and a focus on improving developer productivity. Experience with React, Rails, Postgres, and AWS is preferred.
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Making it easy to live well — whenever, wherever


At Zeus Living, we believe housing shouldn’t constrain how, where, and when you want to live. At the center of everything we do are our people—our customers, partners, and the Zeus team. That’s what our founders knew when they started Zeus Living in 2015, setting out to make renting a home easier. The goal then—and now—is to create a new, modern mode of housing, making it easy to live well—reliably, safely, comfortably, even stylishly—wherever, whenever.


We’ve grown and learned a great deal since we started. Today we’re a hardworking team of creators, problem-solvers, and strategists committed to our vision and values. Based in San Francisco and backed by Airbnb, Comcast, Bowery, and Initialized Capital, we’ve raised $90M in funding.


Zeus is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our engineering team of 12. We plan on growing our engineering team, so you will also need to hire new engineers and manage the team through rapid growth. You will need to balance the day-to-day needs of shipping with the long-term investments that will keep the team shipping high quality software.

What You'll Do

  • Mentor engineers and engineering managers
  • Hire and retain engineers
  • Be the face of engineering and communicate with product and business teams throughout Zeus; constantly iterate on our engineering processes to serve the company best
  • Lead architectural decisions
  • Identify tech debt and develop a plan for paying it off
  • Maintain processes for bugs, testing, and code reviews
  • Increase developer productivity/happiness: develop internal libraries, the Zeus way of doing things, and developer tools
  • Plan projects with engineers and managers; we have an iterative style so break down big projects into 1-2 week milestones

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years experience as an engineer
  • 5+ years experience as an engineering manager or higher
  • You are a servant leader
  • You prefer an iterative, fast-paced development style
  • You are pragmatic and flexible; you will adapt your process to what's needed by the company
  • You make everyone feel a part of your team
  • You are approachable and welcome feedback
  • You foster psychological safety
  • You are detail-oriented and data-driven
  • You have an ownership mentality; you balance what's best for engineering with what's best for Zeus
  • It's a bonus if you have experience in a company with extensive internal tools; experience in an operations-heavy company; and/or experience with our tech stack of React/Rails/Postgres/AWS

At Zeus Living, We Are:


Transparent: honest, authentic, communication, access to info, hard truths

Humble: self-aware, ask for & accept help, inclusive, collaborative, respectful, thankful

Iterative: speedy, willing to break things, growth-minded, creative, process-driven

Human-centric: above & beyond service, surprise & delight, make things right


At Zeus Living, we believe that bringing together people who have different worldviews, personal circumstances, and experiences improves our customer service, work, environment, and one another. Diverse strengths, abilities, interests, and perspectives power the flow of innovation and creativity, which is vital to our success. We encourage people from all walks of life—all backgrounds, identities, genders, ages, races, religions, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses—to apply.


You can find more about what we offer here!

Top Skills

AWS
Postgres
Ruby on Rails
React
The Company
0 Employees

What We Do

We love real estate and care deeply about building the best customer experience. We believe in thoughtfully designed spaces, a responsive team, and state-of-the-art technology to efficiently power it all. The Zeus platform allows partners to focus on growing their portfolios while earning more money from their existing properties, without hassle.

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