Head of Engineering at Flock Homes in San Francisco, CA

Job description

About Flock Flock Homes helps the 17 million Americans who own rental properties unlock the equity and time trapped in their real estate. Today that starts with the hardest and most consequential decision, the exit, where we provide the most cost-efficient and seamless path available. Our flagship product is a technology-enabled Direct 721 Exchange platform, currently focused on single-family and multifamily rentals. We also offer a Private Client model for asset classes that don't fit the flagship Fund, such as medical and dental offices, retail and self storage. We’re growing fast and are looking for smart, curious, dedicated people who want to help build something category-defining. We’re backed by top tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Primary Ventures, Renegade Partners, SUSA Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures, and leaders from Invitation Homes and Opendoor. Where we are today Nearly 2,000 units in the Fund across 17 States ~$360M in real estate value Over 320 exchanges completed, deferring more than $100 million in taxable gains for clients. About the role Build Flock Homes 2.0 while scaling Flock Homes 1.0. That is the job in one line. You will run engineering at Flock - the people, the roadmap, the architecture, the sprints, and a meaningful share of the code. We are a lean team, without a product manager, so you will also be the person responsible for translating business vision to product vision, and the person who says no when the answer should be no. We want someone with strong opinions about what is worth building and the conviction to argue for them, who owns technical direction rather than waiting for it to be handed to them, and who holds a high standard for what is allowed to ship as version one. This is a player-coach seat today with a path to CTO for the person who earns it. What you will own in the first 12 to 18 months Throughput. Continue to scale our core exchange fund’s existing infrastructure so that our funnel can handle five to ten times today's volume without five to ten times the people. New solutions . Leverage, replicate and refine our existing infrastructure to support the launch of new exchange funds and new vehicles, e.g. for specific regions or new asset classes. Flock 2.0 and distribution. Build custom products and integrations for distribution via financial advisors and custodial platforms. Go-to-market experiments. Run fast ship, measure, and close-out cycles with the business. Most of these will fail. We need them to fail fast and cheaply. What you will do Set and own technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards Run sprints, allocate work, and keep the team shipping against clear priorities Manage requirements: translate stakeholder asks into requirements, sequence the roadmap, and push back when an idea is not worth building Write and review code, and hold the bar on what ships Hire, develop, and retain engineers as the team grows. Scope new products and help refine business vision into product vision. Work directly with the CEO, COO, acquisitions, investor relations, and operations. Who you are You have led engineers at a growth-stage fintech or financial infrastructure company, and you are ready to step up. You want real ownership of the technical direction of a company. Still close to the code. You have written meaningful production code in the last year, and you want to keep doing so You have shipped software where correctness mattered: payments, lending, brokerage, infrastructure, anything where a wrong line of code costs real money or real trust You frame the problem before you solve it, and you make the people around you do the same You have opinions about what should be built and the conviction to argue for them, including with the CEO and COO You are calm under pressure and able to parse noise from signal You are comfortable context switching rapidly: being the product manager, the architect, and a senior engineer in the same week You want to be in an office,