Jobs at Apartment List (Now Hiring) — 9 open

Here's what you'll do as part of the team

• Own the outcomes of the Lister domain end to end: delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and the health of the team that carries it.
• Set and defend a committed quarterly roadmap across three pods, including an explicit list of what the team is not doing and why.
• Develop the team's leads. Grow their scope from project leadership toward broader ownership, and coach the engineers under them.
• Hire, mentor, and retain a high-performing team across levels, and address underperformance directly when it appears.
• Stay hands-on. Review code, drive architecture decisions on the pipeline and partner integrations, and pick up work when the situation calls for it.
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Partner Success, and Finance to translate ambiguous partner and regulatory pressure into scoped engineering work.
• Own the intake process for the domain. Classify incoming partner escalations, data quality reports, and feature asks, and push back when the answer is no.
• Be accountable for the reliability of the systems the team owns, including on-call health, incident response, and the operational completeness of new services.
• Represent Lister engineering to leadership: what shipped, what is at risk, what it will take.

Here are the skills and experience you'll need to be successful

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more.
• Experience managing through team leads or senior engineers, not just direct ICs.
• A track record of building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that other teams and external partners depend on.
• Comfort with messy third-party integrations. You have owned a system whose inputs you did not control, and you know how to build guardrails, observability, and reconciliation around data you cannot trust.
• Strong technical judgment. You can hold the architecture bar for a team you do not out-code, and you know when to dive in yourself.
• Experience partnering directly with Product Managers, Designers, and Analysts to shape roadmaps, not just receive them.
• A record of growing engineers, including promoting people and turning around underperformance.
• Clear written communication. You can explain a data pipeline failure to a partner-facing stakeholder and a business trade-off to an executive.
• Experience with Kotlin, Ruby, and Typescript, or the willingness to learn them.
• Experience building cloud-native applications, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.

• Zone 1: $175,000 - $212,000 TTC (including $154,000 - $180,000 base salary) + equity
• Zone 2: $157,000 - $190,000 TTC (including $138,000 - $161,000 base salary) + equity