Software Engineering Lead – Market Research

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Rentable

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Real Estate • Marketplace

Rentable is a leading online apartment marketplace that connects renters with an extensive inventory of available apartments nationwide. The platform enables renters to browse, filter, and tour human-verified listings, making the process of finding a suitable rental convenient and efficient. Since its inception in 2012, Rentable has grown to cover over 300 cities, providing more than seven million renters with access to accurate and credible rental information. Rentable also offers features like pet-friendly listings and rent affordability calculators, making it a trusted choice for renters across the U. S.

51 - 200 employees

🏠 Real Estate

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team across Data Platform, Analytics/API, and Web Application tracks, ensuring flexibility and ownership across domains. • Conduct regular 1:1s to coach engineers, remove blockers, and foster professional growth. • Collaborate with Product Management on roadmap planning, resourcing, and sprint execution in Linear. • Architect and contribute to end-to-end data workflows — from ingesting and normalizing raw feeds into Postgres/OpenSearch to surfacing insights through performant APIs. • Guide evolution of our React + Tailwind frontend and Rails 7 API backend, ensuring cohesive design and robust UX for data visualization. • Champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and observability across background jobs, ingestion workers, and AWS ECS deployments. • Partner with data science to operationalize new market metrics and ML-driven insights. • Drive adoption of developer productivity tools — including AI-assisted code generation and test automation, such as Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. • Establish and monitor engineering KPIs: system performance, data freshness, and delivery velocity. • Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical rigor.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping data-intensive B2B SaaS applications, including 2+ years in an engineering lead or manager role. • Deep experience with Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, and Postgres, including schema design and background-job orchestration. • Proficiency with geospatial data (PostGIS, Google Maps API, or equivalent). • Hands-on experience with React, Tailwind, and building performant, data-driven frontends. • Skilled in project management and agile delivery — comfortable writing specs, breaking down work, and organizing commitments in Linear. • Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative leadership style that bridges technical and product teams. • Passion for developer experience, observability, and building tools that make engineers more effective. • Bonus: familiarity with multifamily housing data, real estate analytics, or market intelligence platforms.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote across the U.S., with quarterly in-person gatherings for team offsites • Competitive Compensation • Flexible Vacation and Parental Leave Policies • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 100% paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance Program • 401k Program • A supportive, learning-first culture where you’ll help shape the next generation of tools for the apartment rental industry