Rentable is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Lead to guide the technical vision and execution of their Market Research product, which aims to empower multifamily operators with real-time market intelligence and competitive benchmarking by transforming messy real-estate data into actionable intelligence.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience building and shipping data-intensive B2B SaaS applications.
- Experience with AWS ECS deployments.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted code generation and test automation tools.
- Experience with CI/CD and observability.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team across Data Platform, Analytics/API, and Web Application tracks, ensuring flexibility and ownership across domains.
Other
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping data-intensive B2B SaaS applications, including 2+ years in an engineering lead or manager role.
- 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.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
