Engineering Manager
Join VTS as an Engineering Manager to lead the Activate Core team. As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major features in our Activate product in web and mobile. You’ll play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering a healthy and collaborative culture, guiding the team's execution and delivery, and mentoring engineers to grow their careers and capabilities.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. **
To thrive in this role, you have:
- Proven experience leading software teams using agile development methodologies.
- A strong technical background with a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications, services, and third-party integrations.
- Experience working on high-impact, business-critical domains, where reliability, performance, and operational stability are essential.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop talent, strengthening the team's capabilities through effective coaching and mentorship.
- The ability to engage in strategic technical discussions, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals,especially in environments involving multiple systems and external partners.
- A sense of empathy for the customer and a relentless focus on shipping high-quality products.
- Excellent communication skills that empower you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others.
- A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool.
What you'll do:
- Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team:
- Foster a healthy, collaborative, and diverse culture that reflects our company and engineering values.
- Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and high engagement.
- Partner with our recruiting team to source, recruit, and onboard talent to VTS.
- Drive Execution:
- Jointly own the team's execution and delivery of the product roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager, particularly for systems that power critical customer workflows and third-party integrations.
- Run an agile engineering process that empowers engineers with the context and autonomy needed to ship high-quality products efficiently and predictably.
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, QA, and partner teams responsible for integrations and platform capabilities.
- Provide Technical and Strategic Guidance:
- Coach, challenge, and lead the team through complex technical problems.
- Collaborate with leadership to identify and prioritize strategic technology investments aligned with business objectives.
- Engage in Hands-On Technical Contribution:
- While this is a management role, we believe in staying close to the technology. You can expect to spend a portion of your time on system design and code reviews.
- Provide architectural oversight and conduct thorough code reviews to uphold high engineering standards across core services and integration points.
Our Tech Stack
You can expect to work with applications that deploy multiple times a day, relying heavily on automated testing and CI. Our modern tech stack includes Go, React, Typescript, Postgres, and AWS services.
ABOUT VTS
VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $170,000 and $210,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.
EEO Guidelines
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. For more information about what we collect and how we use it, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Statement.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at ta@vts.com