Company

Pronto Housing’s mission is to make complicated affordable housing processes efficient and easy for everyone.

Founded in 2020, Pronto Housing ensures that a higher-quality of living is more easily accessible for the more than 11 million Americans facing housing instability, while helping owners meet their financial goals. Automating compliance for U.S. affordable housing programs, Pronto Housing eliminates manual data entry and increases transparency for property teams and renters.

For current and prospective residents, Pronto Housing's platform makes applying to a new building and completing annual recertification a quick, painless process, with automated information and documentation gathering.

For property teams, Pronto Housing's market-leading tools expedite lease-up by over five times the traditional compliance process.

• Terner Center for Housing Innovation’s Housing Lab in the 2022 cohort
• Top 25 Finalist for the Ivory Prize for housing innovation

Role Overview

As Engineering Manager, you will lead and support Pronto’s 8-person distributed engineering team, working closely with our colocated Leadership team to deliver high-impact technology solutions. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role that blends technical insight with people and process leadership

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and mutual support.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Partner with Product and executive leadership to translate business goals into technical strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Project Delivery: Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of both feature development and technical initiatives, balancing short-term execution with long-term architecture needs.
• Operational Efficiency: Own cost management across infrastructure, tooling, and third-party services, ensuring sustainable and scalable operations.
• AI Enablement: Champion the smart and ethical use of AI technologies to enhance developer productivity and product innovation.
• Process Improvement: Continuously refine development workflows, including agile practices, release management, and technical decision-making frameworks.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as a key liaison between engineering and other teams, facilitating transparent communication, clear expectations, and healthy prioritization of work.

Qualifications

• Technical Depth: Significant experience as a hands-on contributor (e.g., software engineer, tech lead), with the ability to evaluate code, architecture, and design trade-offs.
• Proven Leadership: At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, product-centric environment.
• Excellent Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills; capable of influencing technical direction and product outcomes across diverse stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to balance the needs of Product, Operations, Customer Success, and other departments to deliver pragmatic, well-aligned solutions.
• Execution & Adaptability: Track record of delivering projects from inception to production, with a pragmatic and flexible approach to technical challenges and team dynamics.
• Technical Environment: Familiarity with or interest in our tech stack — Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL (RDS), and AWS Lambda/serverless architectures.