Director of Engineering

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Rapid City, SD, USA
In-Office
175K-245K Annually
Senior level
Software
The Role
Lead and scale the engineering organization for a B2B2C proptech SaaS product: own hiring, team structure, delivery cadence, reliability, architecture, AI integration, incident response, and engineering metrics while partnering with Product and leadership to translate roadmap into execution.
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Director of Engineering
This role is for someone uniquely skilled at turning engineering excellence into business outcomes.

You will lead the teams building the product that defines our category, setting the standard for how we ship, how we scale, and how we grow the engineers doing the work.

ABOUT PROPERTY MELD

At Property Meld, we are on a mission to radically improve property maintenance operations. Maintenance is one of the most broken workflows in property management and we are fixing it with intelligent, proactive software that reduces chaos, creates visibility, and delivers better experiences for property managers, residents, vendors, and owners.

We sit on one of the largest maintenance data sets in the market and are entering our next phase by activating that data to power intelligence and automation. The engineering decisions made over the next two years will define how far and how fast we can go.

Property Meld operates as a B2B2C, multi-sided platform. Historically strong in SMB, we are now expanding up-market into multifamily and enterprise. This creates a rare opportunity to build for complexity, scale, and network effects all at once.

As the engineering leader at Property Meld, you will own execution, partner with Product and Design, and grow a team that ships work people actually depend on.

WHO YOU ARE 👋

  • You lead through context, not control. Your team understands the why behind the work and they move faster because of it.
  • You have strong opinions about how software gets built: quality, velocity, reliability, and the tradeoffs between them. You can defend those opinions and change them when the evidence says to.
  • You build engineers, not just systems. You know how to develop technical talent, give feedback that actually lands, and create an environment where people do their best work.
  • You are an AI-First operator. You are actively using AI to accelerate development cycles, improve code quality, and level up your team's capabilities.
  • You thrive in the space between ambiguity and execution. You can hold a technical conversation with an IC and a strategic conversation with the CEO in the same afternoon.
  • You write clearly. Your RFCs, incident postmortems, and team updates are worth reading.
  • You take quality seriously without using it as a reason to slow down. You understand the difference between the two.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 🔍

Property maintenance coordination is operationally complex. Our platform is the system of record for thousands of coordinators managing live work orders, vendor relationships, and resident communication in real time. When our software goes down or slows down, they feel it immediately.

You are not here to manage standups. You are here to build a team and a system that can handle our current customers exceptionally well while scaling to handle ten times as many.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the engineering organization: team structure, hiring, performance, career growth, and culture
  • Set and hold the bar for engineering quality, reliability, and delivery cadence
  • Partner with the Director of Product to translate roadmap priorities into sequenced, executable engineering plans
  • Drive architectural decisions that support scale, maintainability, and AI integration
  • Lead incident response culture: fast resolution, clear communication, and real learning afterward
  • Build direct relationships with individual contributors. You know who your strongest engineers are, what they need to grow, and what would make them leave.
  • Define engineering metrics that connect system health to customer experience and business outcomes
  • Own the evaluation and integration of AI-powered development tooling and practices across the team
  • Partner with Erin on technical strategy, roadmap sequencing, and organizational priorities

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

  • 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership role
  • A track record of building and scaling B2B SaaS products in production environments
  • Deep experience leading engineering teams through growth: hiring, onboarding, performance management, and retention
  • Demonstrated ability to balance delivery speed with technical integrity and make that tradeoff visible to the business
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Strong Preference:

  • Background in proptech, real estate, field service, or operations software
  • Experience building or integrating AI-powered features, LLM workflows, or intelligent automation into production products
  • Time inside a company between 30 and 150 employees. You know what it means to build with real constraints.
  • Familiarity with multi-sided platform architecture or B2B2C product environments

PAY & BENEFITS

Competitive base salary + bonus: $175,000 – $245,000

Healthcare through Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield

Dental and Vision through Beam

401K through Guideline

Four weeks PTO, front-loaded to hire date

Personalized remote work equipment

Three company gatherings per year

Direct access to CEO and leadership

INCLUSION MATTERS

We value diverse points of view and know our differences make us stronger. We welcome applicants across color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender, and sexual identity. We want you here and we want you to thrive.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years in software engineering
  • At least 3 years in an engineering leadership role
  • Track record of building and scaling B2B SaaS products in production
  • Deep experience leading engineering teams through growth: hiring, onboarding, performance management, retention
  • Ability to balance delivery speed with technical integrity and make tradeoffs visible to the business
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Background in proptech, real estate, field service, or operations software
  • Experience building or integrating AI-powered features, LLM workflows, or intelligent automation into production
  • Experience working at companies of 30 to 150 employees
  • Familiarity with multi-sided platform architecture or B2B2C product environments
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The Company
HQ: Rapid City, SD
44 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Property Meld is an intelligent maintenance solution for property management companies that provides efficiency and oversight for all your key players (resident, vendor, technician, and property management). Our technology allows you to schedule, track, and communicate work orders and turnovers all in one web-based platform. This new generation of maintenance coordination gives your company time to focus on growth, enhance repair speed, and ensure resident satisfaction.

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