Technical Lead

Tech Lead (path to CTO)

Must be based in the Midwest, ideally Indianapolis or Chicago (remote with travel)

Hampton North is partnering with a profitable, fast-growing company in the real estate and property management space to hire their first in-house technology leader. They're a small, well-funded team that already works with thousands of members nationwide. Now they're building a platform to bring purchasing, spend visibility, and rebate tracking into one place, and they need someone to own it.

Compensation: $170-200 base

Location: Remote with travel, but MUST be based in Midwest (ideally Indianapolis or Chicago)

Unable to provide sponsorship

It's a stable, cash flow positive business with a leadership team that's serious about technology and wants someone who can lead it.

What you'll do

• Own the platform roadmap and architecture, turning business needs into clear requirements and priorities
• Lead delivery with an established external engineering team, review technical decisions, and flag risks early
• Drive a CRM/backend migration, website rebuild, and mobile app development
• Work with partners on data integrations for purchasing, spend reporting, and rebates
• Get in front of customers and their IT teams, on site when needed
• Set direction for internal tech (collaboration tools, AI, cybersecurity) and help decide when to build an in-house team

And what you'll need to have

• A software engineering background and experience shipping production software
• Enough technical depth to evaluate architecture, APIs, and data integrations
• Familiarity with TypeScript and React Native (web folks keen to work on mobile are welcome)
• Strong communication: you can go deep with engineers and explain things simply to non-technical executives
• Good product judgment and comfort making tradeoffs with incomplete information
• A generalist mindset and a willingness to own things well beyond a narrow job description