Technical Lead Manager

About Us:

Homebound is on a mission to make it possible for anyone anywhere to build a home using technology. Created by an experienced team of construction real estate design and technology experts Homebound is transforming the residential construction industry by improving the costly and inefficient process of building a home.

Weve created an entirely new way to build homes with technology powering every stage from start to finish to provide a seamless experience for our customers. Homeowners across the country can choose where they want to live select a home plan thats perfect for them then personalize and buy it all online. Homebound has raised $150M in capital from leading venture capitalists like Google Khosla Thrive Ventures and were scaling quickly in places like Texas Colorado and Florida. Come build your future with us.

Were hiring a Tech Lead Manager (Staff) to lead a small team building the platform that is modernizing homebuilding. This is a leadership-track role for a senior engineer ready to grow their scope and impact. Youll stay hands-on as a technical leader while directly managing a team of 24 engineers.

The role blends deep technical ownership with people leadership. Youll set technical direction for your domain ship production-grade code and be accountable for the growth output and delivery of your team. The work spans the full stack and covers both internal tools that power construction operations and customer-facing experiences for homeowners and trades.

Were a remote-first team. Youll work from wherever you do your best work with regular offsites to get together in person. Youll own entire product areas make real technical decisions and work directly with engineering leadership product and design to take features from concept to production.

Technical Leadership:

• Set technical direction for your domain. Contribute to architecture decisions API contracts and data models that shape how our systems scale and evolve.

• Design build and deliver features across the platform. You own the full lifecycle from technical design through deployment and monitoring.

• Stay hands-on. Write and deploy high-quality production-grade code on a regular basis.

• Raise the bar across engineering. Review designs improve developer experience and help other engineers work through complex problems.

People Leadership:

• Directly manage a team of 24 engineers. Hold regular 1:1s give clear and actionable feedback and lead growth and performance conversations.

• Own your teams delivery. Drive planning prioritization and execution and be accountable for outcomes.

• Coach and develop your engineers. Help them grow their skills scope and careers and create the conditions for them to do their best work.

• Partner with product and design to translate messy real-world processes into clean reliable software and to make tradeoffs that balance speed and quality.

• Help grow the team. Recruit interview and raise the bar on who we hire.

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of shipping products that land real-world impact.

• Experience as a tech lead team lead or engineering manager. Youve led projects and/or people whether formally or informally and prior direct management experience is a strong plus.

• Built and delivered full-stack features across modern web technologies. Our stack includes TypeScript Node React GraphQL PostgreSQL and AWS. We care more about your ability to learn and build than checking every box.

• Actively using AI coding tools (Claude Code Cursor etc.) in your daily workflow. You can explain how they change the way you approach problems and how youd bring that leverage to a team.

• Demonstrated leadership and ownership. Mentoring engineers influencing technical direction and being the person people depend on.

• Designed systems that balance quick iterations with long-term reliability and maintainability.

• Partnered with product design and non-technical stakeholders to define requirements make tradeoffs and deliver outcomes. Not just code.

• You want to grow your scope and impact through leadership both technical and people.

• You care about the people on your team. Their growth their output and their experience.

• You take ownership and seek autonomy over your work and outcomes.

• Youre excited to build and lead within a small nimble high-impact team.

• You are self-directed. Comfortable prioritizing your own work and your teams with minimal oversight.

• You communicate clearly and proactively. Especially in writing.

• Youre humble good-natured and bring positive energy to your tea

Our Commitment:

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If youre excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above we encourage you to apply please submit an application with your resume on the Careers page.

Homebound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex orientation national origin age disability genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal state or local law. Homebound considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Our Compensation Philosophy:

Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. Please note that the salary range displayed on each job posting may vary by state. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that each job posting includes a general description of any other compensation offered for the position in addition to the salary range displayed on the job posting. You can find information about our benefits here.

Required Experience:

Manager