Staff Software Engineer, Activate
As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major business lines and play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position.
To excel in this role, you'll leverage your experience with complex, tightly integrated applications and services, understanding both their challenges and immense opportunities. Your expertise in building and deploying AI-powered systems will be crucial, always underpinned by the same engineering rigor that guarantees quality, reliability, and scalability, ultimately leading to exceptional customer experiences.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **
To thrive in this role you hold:
- Technical Leadership: You'll define the technical vision and architecture, ensuring the quality, scalability, and reliability of our cloud-deployed software systems.
- Strategic Collaboration: You'll partner closely with other Staff Engineers to align and coordinate technical investments across major product areas.
- Influential Consensus Building: You have a demonstrated ability to build consensus and drive alignment among diverse technical leads.
- Adaptable Expertise: You are technology-agnostic, quickly orienting to new codebases and tools. You also proactively explore and champion emergent technologies and their potential to solve complex problems. You possess strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Ruby, TypeScript, Go, or Python, or Ruby.
- Dedicated Mentorship: You prioritize the growth of both junior and senior engineers. You're adept at pairing, providing insightful feedback through one-on-ones, and offering comprehensive written reviews of technical proposals and pull requests. You also actively support teams in their daily development as a technical mentor.
- Impactful Problem Solving: You are a skilled problem solver capable of identifying and resolving complex technical issues with deep expertise, while also serving as a strategic thinker who creatively advances broad initiatives.
- AI System Experience: You have hands-on experience developing, building, and deploying AI systems.
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 $220,000 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