Engineering Manager - Landlord Experience

theguarantors-open-positions; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & Vision

HSA with employer contribution

PTO & paid holidays

Flexible working hours

401(k)

Parental leave

Disability (short/long term)

FSA

Competitive salary

Job summary

TheGuarantors is a fintech company helping landlords, operators, and renters. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of 4–6 engineers building landlord and renter tools.

This hybrid role is based in NYC, guiding architecture, code reviews, and coaching to boost ownership and impact. Our stack includes TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Go, REST and GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with prior team leadership.
• Hands-on full-stack experience (TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Go).
• Strong API design, data modeling, security, and reliability skills.
• Experience delivering customer-facing products across multiple services.
• Cloud (AWS) experience and distributed systems knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction across Landlord Portal and related flows.
• Raise engineering standards with reviews, testing, and observability.
• Build a high-performing distributed team and provide coaching.
• Lead cross-team collaboration with Product, Design, and QA.
• Turn priorities into measurable roadmap outcomes.
• Ensure operational reliability and incident response readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Technical judgment

Coaching

Distributed teamwork

API design

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

NestJS

Go

AWS

REST

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

TheGuarantors is a fintech company helping multifamily owners and operators mitigate leasing risk while expanding access for renters. With a deep understanding of owner, operator, and renter needs, we believe renters deserve better access to the home of their choice and operators deserve greater protection and growth opportunities. That's why we're leveraging our real estate expertise and using AI-driven renter underwriting to help operators qualify renters faster while mitigating the financial risk of renter default. With $7B+ in lease value protected, we work with 9 of the country’s top 10 operators, are the #1 lease guarantee provider nationwide, and have consistently been named one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies, one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employers, and one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500

The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of 4 - 6 engineers building the products landlords and property managers use to work with TheGuarantors.

The Landlord Experience team owns key self-service experiences across the Landlord Portal, including application tracking, renter invitations, lease details, and onboarding, with expanding capabilities in renewals and landlord payments.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management. You will guide architecture, review designs and code, and selectively implement solutions to unblock the team. You will multiply the team's effectiveness through sound technical decisions, better engineering practices, and coaching that helps engineers take greater ownership.

Our stack includes TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Go, REST and GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Experience with several of these technologies is valuable, as is experience modernizing legacy systems or building self-service products.

Location
This is a hybrid role based in NYC

What You'll Do

• Own technical direction. Guide architecture across the Landlord Portal, Application Tracker, and renter invitation flows. Balance business needs with scalability, maintainability, and security, while addressing technical debt and modernizing legacy systems.
• Raise engineering standards. Strengthen code and design reviews, testing, observability, and release practices. Contribute targeted implementations and improve tooling to resolve blockers and make the team more effective.
• Build a high-performing team. Continuously improve how the team plans, collaborates, and executes to deliver high-quality software predictably and sustainably, from requirements through production support.
• Lead and develop engineers. Set clear expectations, provide actionable feedback, and support career growth. Encourage constructive technical debate, knowledge sharing, and shared ownership.
• Turn priorities into results. Partner with Product, Design, and QA to scope and sequence the roadmap, including new renewals and landlord payment capabilities. Align commitments with capacity and identify risks and dependencies early.
• Own operational reliability. Maintain effective monitoring, runbooks, and follow-the-sun on-call coverage for critical landlord workflows. Lead technical response during major incidents and ensure root causes are addressed.
• Lead across team boundaries. Coordinate changes to shared applications and services with peer engineering teams. Keep partners and engineering leadership informed of delivery risks, technical tradeoffs, and team health concerns.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team as a Tech Lead, Tech Lead Manager, or Engineering Manager. A strong prior track record as a senior/staff-level fullstack engineer.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to evaluate designs, review code, implement solutions, and troubleshoot production systems, with hands-on experience in fullstack development (TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, and Go preferred).
• Fluency in API design, data modeling, performance, security, and reliability: schema and API design (REST/GraphQL), PostgreSQL and Redis performance and scaling, and the operational characteristics of production services other teams and customers depend on.
• Experience delivering customer-facing products across multiple services and team dependencies.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and building/operating distributed, service-oriented architectures.
• A track record of turning ambiguous requirements in a high-growth environment into achievable plans and balancing product priorities with technical investment.
• Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with comfort leading a distributed team.

Benefits

• Opportunities to make an impact within a fast growing company
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance, beginning day one
• Health savings account with employer contribution
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Flexible working hours
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Company sponsored short and long term disability
• Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, commuter)
• Competitive salary

Base Salary

This is an individual contributor role, internally leveled as L1.

The annual U.S. base salary range is $190,000-$220,000. Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location, skills, experience, and other job-related factors, which will be discussed during the hiring process.

TheGuarantors is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all.