Director of Engineering
Revive
Why this role exists
At Revive, technology is the foundation of how we help homeowners unlock wealth through real estate. Our platform connects renovation, financing, and selling into a single system that enables smarter decisions, better execution, and real outcomes. As the business scales, the complexity and importance of our technology increases—and getting it right becomes mission-critical.
The Director of Engineering role exists to ensure Revive’s technology scales with discipline, quality, and intention. This role owns the technical backbone of the company: architecture, APIs, backend systems, data flows, and the standards that govern how software is built and shipped. This is a role for a deeply technical leader who stays close to the code, makes hard architectural decisions, and builds systems and teams that move fast without breaking trust.
What you will do
- Own the overall technical architecture of Revive’s platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Set and uphold engineering standards across frontend, backend, APIs, and data systems
- Make high-impact technical decisions around system design, service boundaries, data models, and integrations
- Maintain deep familiarity with the existing codebase and actively contribute where appropriate
- Own the design and evolution of APIs and backend services that support multiple products and workflows
- Establish and enforce a high bar for code quality, testing, documentation, and production readiness
- Review complex pull requests and architectural changes, providing clear and constructive technical guidance
- Own the development and deployment pipeline, including CI/CD, environments, and release processes
- Ensure production systems are stable, observable, and resilient through monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Lead incident response and post-mortems with a focus on root-cause analysis and systemic improvement
- Balance speed and reliability by setting clear expectations for delivery and technical risk
- Lead, mentor, and develop senior engineers and engineering managers
- Drive hiring, onboarding, and technical evaluation to build a high-ownership engineering team
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to translate business priorities into technical execution
- Ensure engineering systems support accurate data collection, analytics, and reporting
- Use metrics and insights to inform architectural decisions, prioritization, and capacity planning
- Identify and proactively address technical debt and long-term scalability risks
Who you are
- A senior engineering leader who is hands-on, opinionated, and pragmatic
- Someone who thinks in systems and anticipates second- and third-order effects of technical decisions
- Comfortable making hard tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
- A clear communicator who can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical partners
- Calm under pressure, especially when systems break or priorities shift
- Deeply invested in code quality, developer experience, and operational excellence
- Motivated by building durable systems and strong teams, not just shipping features
Qualifications
- 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years in an engineering leadership role (Director, Senior Manager, or equivalent)
- Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript / TypeScript in production environments
- Deep experience with Node.js, Express, and backend service architecture
- Strong familiarity with React, Next.js, and modern frontend architectures
- Proven experience designing and maintaining APIs and data-driven systems
- Experience owning production systems, including deployments, monitoring, and incident response
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment practices
- Experience leading code reviews, setting engineering standards, and managing technical debt
About Revive Real Estate
Revive is a venture-backed proptech company built on the belief that the future starts at home. While most people see renovation as a project, we built it as a path to real wealth for homeowners. By connecting renovation with financing and selling, we create new ways to buy, sell, and unlock value, giving homeowners real control over their biggest asset.
At Revive, ownership is real and impact is visible. We move fast, challenge broken systems, and hold a high bar for clarity and outcomes. If you want to work on problems that matter and see your work translate into real-world change, this is where you will do your best work.
What we offer
- Competitive salary & benefits in a high-growth, VC-backed company
- Real ownership, clear accountability, and the authority to make decisions that matter
- Direct working relationships with Revive’s founders and senior leaders on initiatives that shape how the company grows
- The opportunity to design and build in a company where craft, clarity, and outcomes are valued
- A fast-moving environment where strong work leads to more responsibility and more opportunity
- Flexibility in how and where you work, paired with high expectations for impact
- A culture that values contribution, judgment, and follow-through over titles or tenure
Revive is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on contribution, capability, and alignment with how we work.