Engineering Manager

What is 8020REI?

8020REI is a pioneering B2B data and SaaS platform that empowers professional real estate investors to generate consistent leads from Cold Call, SMS, and Direct Mail without spending more. We leverage AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to identify homeowners likely to sell at a discount, and we use a proven strategy to maximize our clients' ROI. As part of our network, we also operate alongside three sister companies: DMForce, 8020Recruit, and 8020CRM, each contributing specialized services to the real estate sector.

Core Values at 8020REI:

• Find a Better Way: We dig until we understand the real problem, then improve or innovate to solve it. Focused on the 20% that drives the biggest result.

• Have Each Other's Back: We work as a team. We support, step in, and go the extra mile to create a great experience for each other and our clients.

• Honor Your Word: We honor our promises, hold ourselves accountable, and do the right thing even when nobody’s looking.

• Own Your Growth: We're obsessed with personal growth and take pride in the work we deliver. Intrinsically motivated, we hold ourselves to a high standard and never coast.

• Bring Your A-Game: We take care of our recovery, health, and family time, and that’s why we show up focused, energized, and ready to perform at our best.

🎯 Role Overview

As an Engineer Manager, you will own the whole platform behind our product, back end and front end: everything that takes the data our data team publishes and puts it in front of every client. You make it reliable, fast, secure and worth what it costs, and you make sure we see a failure before a client does.

You are a strategic architect and an independent thinker who leads people well. You shape what we build, not just how: you question every request against the client's real need, propose the simplest design and refuse complexity that turns into debt. You lead a small team that uses AI to do more with less: we would rather have two great engineers using AI than a bigger team.

At least half your time is hands-on: architecture, design, reviewing code (including AI-written code) and building with AI agents. The rest is leading the team.

💡 Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform end to end. Design and evolve the architecture of our whole platform, back end and front end, that takes the data our data team publishes and serves it to every client. Write down each major decision and why, and remove old shortcuts instead of rebuilding them.

• Catch failures before clients do. Set up the alerts, testing and monitoring that surface problems before a client notices. After a serious failure, run a no-blame review, find the root cause (a missing test, alert, skill or owner) and fix it so it never repeats.

• Keep critical services up, fast and current. Run our critical services to clear targets for uptime and response time, and make sure every client gets newly published data within a day.

• Protect client data. Give every login only the access it needs, keep each client’s data apart, close security findings on time, and work with security specialists where it counts.

• Own cloud cost. Keep the platform bill within budget and bring the cost per paid client down every quarter, without slowing anything down.

• Challenge every request. Partner with Product to test each request against the client’s real need and its running cost, propose the simplest design, and put numbers on the tradeoffs. If Product uses 50 columns, we don’t serve 500.

• Build hands-on with AI. Spend at least half your time on architecture, design and code review, including AI-written code. Design and supervise the AI-agent workflows that let a small team ship more, and track how often releases ship and break.

• Lead a small, strong team. Coach instead of fixing it yourself, talk about performance in every 1:1, give hard feedback and act on poor performance. Build the smallest team that can deliver.

• Plan validated work and deliver it on date. Keep at least two quarters of validated work ready, and only build work that has been validated. Commit to a date for every piece of work. Count it done only when it is deployed, documented and in use. If a date is at risk, raise it and replan before it passes.

What success looks like

• Clients never find our failures first: we catch problems before they do, and none repeats.

• Critical services stay up, fast and current for every client.

• Infrastructure cost per paid client falls every quarter, within budget and without slowing anything down.

• Client data stays safe.

• The team always knows what to build next, and only builds work that has been validated.

• You commit to dates and keep them. Every piece of work has a date you own; if it is at risk, you say so before it passes.

✅ Qualifications

We look at what you have done, not your job title.

• You are an engineer: a degree in engineering or computer science (e.g. software, computer, or civil industrial engineering with IT). A master's degree is a plus.

• You have owned a system in production and run it: you have lived through failures, fixed them and stopped them from coming back.

• You build with AI coding agents today and review what they produce.

• You have led a team of at least two engineers for at least two years, as a manager or a tech lead, and given them hard feedback.

• You are curious: you have become an expert in something on your own, because you wanted to, not because someone asked you to.

• You question how things are done, you spot risks before anyone asks, and you only call a problem solved once you have proved the fix works.

• You commit to dates and meet them.

• Fluent English.

Nice to Have

Experience with a software product that serves many clients from one platform (B2B or B2C), working next to a data team, managing a cloud budget, working with security specialists, or real estate, proptech or fintech. Your technology stack does not matter.

Why Join Us?

At 8020REI, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of data analytics for the real estate investment industry. As a team member, you’ll have the opportunity to lead initiatives, work with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate with a dynamic team passionate about innovation and results.

📝 What We Offer:

• Competitive Base Compensation

• Profit Share Bonus

• Flex PTO (up to 26 days per year)

• Home Office Upgrade Bonus

• HMO Bonus

• Full-time Remote Work

• Opportunity for growth and team-building potential

• Ongoing support and budget to develop new skills

Join us at 8020REI and contribute directly to revolutionizing the real estate investment landscape!