# Engineering Manager - Property Management

**Company:** [TheGuarantors](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/theguarantors)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $190k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, React, TypeScript, Postgres, Kafka, Redpanda, AWS, Kubernetes, Database Design, API Design, Data Pipelines, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Systems, Schema Design, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Leads the engineering team responsible for property-management platform capabilities, data models, integrations, APIs, and production reliability. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, technical leadership, backend expertise, and strong database and distributed-systems knowledge.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design for property, address, unit, and operator/company data models.
- Guide integrations and data pipelines with external Property Management Systems, including synchronization, mapping, reconciliation, and observability.
- Make technical tradeoffs balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability; identify risks, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and security across Go, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL systems.
- Improve code and design reviews, team processes, tooling, and developer experience.
- Translate business goals into technical plans, scope and sequence work, and drive predictable delivery through production support.
- Maintain on-call and runbook ownership, lead major incident response, and drive root-cause analysis.
- Provide stable API contracts, documentation, and backward-compatible migrations for platform consumers.
- Mentor and coach engineers and promote documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, peer teams, and engineering leadership.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team as a Tech Lead, Tech Lead Manager, or Engineering Manager.
- Strong prior experience as a senior or staff-level backend engineer.
- Strong technical judgment and hands-on full-stack development experience.
- Strong database fluency, including schema design, query performance, scaling strategies, and relational or NoSQL operational characteristics.
- Experience owning data models, APIs, or platform primitives used by other teams as a source of truth.
- Experience with event-driven systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
- Track record of building high-performing teams that deliver reliable, business-critical systems.
- Strong execution, risk-management, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfort operating in a high-growth environment with ambiguity and competing priorities.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Go, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redpanda, AWS, and Kubernetes.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual U.S. base salary: $190,000–$220,000.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on day one.
- Health savings account with employer contribution.
- Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- 401(k).
- Paid parental leave.
- Company-sponsored short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting.

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