Position: Head of Engineering at Propertymate
Company: A–Players Recruiting
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

As the Head of Engineering at Propertymate, you’ll drive the vision, design, strategy, and implementation of integrated web systems in order to support the business. You’ll lead the (existing and growing) development teams and collaborate with other business departments in sales, marketing, and finance in order to roll out new web systems and implement the ongoing process improvements of the current systems.

We’d expect you to have a strong vision for the engineering team and promote the best organizational patterns and practices. You’d tackle high-level challenges and balance quality software with speed.

**Responsibilities:**

- Feature deployment;
- Ensure the business’s core platform stability;
- Ensure the overall quality of the business’s web architecture;
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team;
- Implement the best engineering leadership practices;
- Ensure the software development projects are delivered according to commitments and project plans;
- Manage the department’s staffing, resources, and mentoring, and maintain a best-in-class engineering department;
- Make decisions on choosing new and relevant technologies for the purpose of realizing efficiency;
- Report on the status of software development, operations, quality, and system performance to senior company leadership.

**Job requirements:**

- A degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field. An equivalent of the same in working experience is also acceptable for this position;
- At least 5 years of working experience in a senior backend development position;
- Experience in the management of a frontend or backend team through cross-functional projects;
- A proven track record of consistent project delivery, and designing and developing complex, interactive B2B or B2C software applications;
- Great communication skills both in written and verbal form;
- Expertise in full-stack architecture technologies and be highly familiar with a variety of front-end and back-end programming languages;
- Outstanding leadership skills, ability to move a cross-functional group in a unified direction and with a common vision;
- Experience building/shaping engineering culture.

Nice to have:
- Experience building marketplaces/real estate software products.

**About the company:**

Propertymate is a US-based startup that helps users search and compare new residential constructions. The platform aims to digitize and simplify the real estate buying process by matching buyers with developers and agents. Propertymate was founded in 2018 by Bohdan Hnatkovsky and Sofia Vyshnevska. It has offices in the United States and Ukraine. In 2020, the startup graduated from the acceleration program Techstars in Austin.