Engineering Manager - Lease Market Experience
VTS
Join VTS as an Engineering Manager to lead the Lease Market Experience team. As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major business lines and play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering a healthy and collaborative culture, guiding the team's execution and delivery, and mentoring engineers to grow their careers and capabilities.
To thrive in this role, you have:
- Proven experience leading software teams using agile development methodologies
- A strong technical background with a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining web applications and services.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop talent, strengthening the team's capabilities through effective coaching and mentorship.
- The ability to engage in strategic technical discussions, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals.
- A sense of empathy for the customer and a relentless focus on shipping high-quality products.
- Excellent communication skills that empower you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others.
- A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool.
What you'll do:
- Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team:
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- Foster a healthy, collaborative, and diverse culture that reflects our company and engineering values.
- Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and high engagement.
- Partner with our recruiting team to source, recruit, and onboard talent to VTS.
- Drive Execution:
- Jointly own the team's execution and delivery of the product roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager.
- Run an agile engineering process that empowers engineers with the context and autonomy needed to ship high-quality products efficiently and predictably.
- Collaborate on cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, and QA.
- Provide Technical and Strategic Guidance:
- Coach, challenge, and lead the team through complex technical problems.
- Collaborate with leadership to identify and prioritize strategic technology investments aligned with business objectives.
- Engage in Hands-On Technical Contribution:
- While this is a management role, we believe in staying close to the technology. You can expect to spend a portion of your time on hands-on coding, system design, and code reviews.
- Provide architectural oversight and conduct thorough code reviews to uphold high engineering standards.
Our Tech Stack
You can expect to work with applications that deploy multiple times a day, relying heavily on automated testing and CI. Our modern tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, Postgres, Kafka, Python, Go, and AWS services, as well as a data platform built around Snowflake, dbt, and Spark.
VTS is the industry's only technology platform that unifies owners, operators, brokers, and their customers across the commercial and residential real estate ecosystems. In 2013, VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, the VTS Platform is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by real estate professionals across the globe.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Job applicants should note the following:
- Within 45 days of any scheduled interview (or the last interview in a series of interviews), the Company will inform any interviewed applicant as to whether a hiring decision has been made. Please note this requirement does not apply to any preliminary screening process an applicant participates in prior to the interview process.
- The company reserves the right and may rely on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company currently uses AI to screen applicant(s), and may expand the use of its AI to include the assessment and selection of applicant(s) in the future.
- This posting has been generated for the purposes of filling an existing vacancy
DE&I Commitment
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
VTS will provide any necessary accommodation during the recruitment and selection process to an employee or applicant with a disability.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at ta@vts.com