Zeus - Flawless Stays.

We built Zeus Living so you can feel at home wherever opportunity takes you. Whether it’s for a month, a year or sometime in between, you can count on a thoughtfully designed home and a comfortable, easy stay. Our technology helps us select homes you’ll love in ideal locations at a good value, while our expert team handles all the details. Backed by Airbnb, Comcast, Bowery and Initialized Capital, Zeus has raised $90M in funding and is based in San Francisco and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. To date, Zeus has hosted more than 17,000 residents for a over 500,000 nights. For more information, visit zeusliving.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Zeus is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our engineering team of 20. You will be responsible for ensuring that engineering ships world-class products on time. We plan on aggressively growing our engineering team so you will also need to hire new engineers and manage the team through rapid growth. You will need to balance the day-to-day needs of shipping product with the long-term investments that will help the team scale.

What You'll Do

• Mentor engineers and engineering managers. Create a career ladder for engineering.
• Hire and retain engineers
• Be the face of engineering and communicate with product and business teams throughout Zeus. Constantly iterate on our engineering processes to serve the company best
• Lead architectural decisions
• Identify tech debt and develop a plan for paying it off
• Develop a clear protocol for handling bugs
• Own our testing guidelines and adapt as needed
• Maintain developer productivity/happiness: develop internal libraries, the Zeus way of doing things, and developer tools
• Plan projects with engineers and managers. We have an iterative style so break down big projects into 1-2 week milestones

Who You Are

• 15+ years experience as an engineer
• 10+ years experience as an engineering manager
• You have run teams of 10 to 50 engineers
• You are a servant leader
• You prefer an iterative, fast-paced development style
• You are pragmatic and flexible. You will adapt your process to what's needed by the company.
• You make everyone feel a part of your team
• You are approachable and welcome feedback
• You foster psychological safety
• You are detail-oriented and data-driven
• You have an ownership mentality. You balance what's best for engineering with what's best for Zeus
• BONUS: Experience in a company with extensive internal tools
• BONUS: Experience in an operations-heavy company
• BONUS: Experience with our tech stack of React/Rails/Postgres/AWS