Tech Lead

About AirGarage

AirGarage is on a mission to bring real estate online, starting with parking.

We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual, labor-intensive operations with a unified, data-rich operating system for parking real estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more.

By building all of our technology in-house, we are able to deliver a magical experience for drivers while providing real-time visibility and revenue increases of 20-50% or more for real estate owners. That’s why national real‑estate leaders like Hines and Greystar, as well as technology companies like Meta, partner with AirGarage to optimize their parking facilities.

AirGarage uses datapoints like real-time occupancy, local events, weather, driver behavior, competitor pricing, and more to bring true intelligence to real estate owners’ assets for the first time.

We’re investing aggressively to make the physical world legible to a digital system: cameras, sensors, and software that generate a firehose of real-time data about the world around us. That data fuels models and algorithms that allow us to optimize performance at each property while giving owners the clarity and control they’ve never had before.

Before you can optimize an asset, you need to observe it. Before you can observe it, you need to bring it online.

We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. 26% of the land area in the median American urban core is dedicated to parking.

We are backed by top tier investors including Headline Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.
Want to learn more about AirGarage and the problem we're tackling?
Check out these podcasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NkDK51E4
https://youtu.be/_8aM6NQHYiE?si=p5WIujBWUA1sG-b7

THE ROLE 👩🏾‍💻

We’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our team and bring strong technical foundations to our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate is passionate about building a robust codebase with a long-term, technical vision, and also eager to help empower, coach, and enable our engineering team.

You will have a hand in key architecture decisions, running engineering meetings, and setting a high bar for the code we ship. This is a role with high growth potential, as you will be an early leader helping scale and grow our engineering team and organization.

This is not just a management role; you will be expected to write and ship code alongside the team.

Our stack is Python, Django, Django REST framework, Svelte, React, React Native, and Expo.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 👷‍♀️

• Plan, execute, and lead high stakes engineering projects.

• Make key architecture decisions around best practices, design patterns, infrastructure, and tools.

• Write high-quality, production-ready code and conduct thorough code reviews that increase our code quality quality bar.

• Nurture a team of passionate engineers, pair program and collaborate with engineers to multiply their impact.

• Bring best technical practices and raise the bar for code quality and cultural norms.

• Collaborate our Director of Engineering, CTO, founders, designers, and data teams to understand our users and build the best product possible.

• Lead engineering meetings including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Promote a culture of resiliency, learning, ownership, and impact.

• Implement lightweight processes to help the team scale while maintaining agility.
  

WHAT YOU NEED 👩🏼‍🎓

• Currently a Tech Lead with both deep engineering knowledge and people skills.

• Senior+ level engineering knowledge, including but not limited to: software architecture patterns, clean code principles, database management, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines.

• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teams.

• Familiarity with management best practices like 1:1s and feedback cycles.

• Experience with Python, Django, and React or similar web and mobile frameworks.

• An ownership mindset, eager to understand and own complex systems and have a big impact.

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THE UPSIDE 📈

• 📈 Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.

• 🌴 Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like! We believe in folks working where they are happiest and most productive. We currently hire teammates that are located anywhere within North America.

• 🏥 Health insurance: We offer health insurance and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical plans for the primary employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents.

• 💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for success.

• ⛺ Time to recharge: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.

• 🤑 401k: Make financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program.

• ✈️ Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year our team comes together for a full week in places like Tahoe, Puerto Vallarta, San Diego, and Austin.

• 📚 BookGarage: Our team loves to learn and grow together so join us for our optional recurring book club.

• 🪴Room to grow:  Our team will be orders of magnitude larger within a few years, as a part of our foundational team you'll have opportunities to grow with us.

• 🏙️ Transform our cities: The opportunity to change the way that the world thinks about real estate use in our cities.

• 👐 Work with a diverse team: At AirGarage, we've always been committed to building a thriving team that represents the communities we serve. Our team is currently 40% female and 30%+ from underrepresented communities.

We understand that there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for someone passionate, with grit and determination, who is excited to face the challenges of a rapidly growing startup. AirGarage is the type of company where you can grow exponentially, and we encourage you to apply to us even if you don't 100% match the candidate description.

AirGarage is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit, qualifications, and performance.  We will never discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, martial status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.