Software Engineering Lead - Market Research

We’re Changing the Rentals Industry

We’re a profitable, growth-stage company building industry-leading martech and data products for the rentals industry. While originally known for building and operating one of the U.S.’s largest rental marketplaces - Rentable, our focus has shifted to our category-leading AI and data SaaS products with triple-digit growth rates.

We’re a fully remote team of 100+ spread across the U.S. from coast to coast. We operate on a strict no a**holes policy and are proud to have built a community of highly performing people that take our work seriously, but not ourselves.

While we’ve raised $30MM+ to date from some of the world’s best investors, we’re profitable with a strong balance sheet and an indefinite runway. We pride ourselves on achieving rapid growth without having to incinerate capital. 

If you like the idea of joining an industry-changing company made up of people who genuinely like each other, Rentable could be a great fit for you.

Your New Team

The ApartmentIQ Market Research team empowers multifamily operators with real-time market intelligence and competitive benchmarking. We aggregate vast datasets - property listings, rent trends, occupancy signals, and construction activity - into a unified analytics platform that helps owners and asset managers make data-driven pricing and investment decisions.

Our stack blends geospatial analytics, data ingestion pipelines, and AI-assisted insights across three functional domains:

• Data Platform: Ingesting and normalizing feeds from property management systems, public sources, and third-party APIs into Postgres and OpenSearch.
• Analytics & API Layer: Querying large datasets with geospatial filters and delivering performant APIs to power dashboards and client integrations.
• Web Application: A React/Tailwind UI backed by a Rails API that visualizes market boundaries, comp sets, and trend analyses on interactive Google Maps.

We value curiosity, pragmatism, and technical excellence - building tools that transform messy real-estate data into actionable intelligence.

The Role

We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineering Lead to guide the technical vision and execution of our Market Research product. You’ll manage a cross-functional team spanning backend and frontend engineers; collaborate closely with Product and Data Science; and ensure the platform scales as our datasets and customers grow.

Expect a balance of hands-on coding (~35%), project delivery (~35%), and mentorship and leadership (~30%). This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of geospatial data, distributed systems, and modern web applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team across Data Platform, Analytics/API, and Web Application tracks, ensuring flexibility and ownership across domains.
• Conduct regular 1:1s to coach engineers, remove blockers, and foster professional growth.
• Collaborate with Product Management on roadmap planning, resourcing, and sprint execution in Linear.
• 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.
• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical rigor.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping data-intensive B2B SaaS applications, including 2+ years in an engineering lead or manager role.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bonus: familiarity with multifamily housing data, real estate analytics, or market intelligence platforms.
  

Why Our Team

• 100% remote across the U.S., with quarterly in-person gatherings for team offsites
• Competitive Compensation 
• Flexible Vacation and Parental Leave Policies
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 100% paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance Program
• 401k Program
• A supportive, learning-first culture where you’ll help shape the next generation of tools for the apartment rental industry

If you’re excited to lead a data-driven engineering team and help redefine how the multifamily industry understands markets, we’d love to hear from you!

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process, please contact your recruiter.
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