Engineering Manager, PermitFlow
$180-250k
+ Equity
AI pre-construction platform built for construction and trades
Posted today
AI pre-construction platform built for construction and trades
101-200 employees
Posted today
$180-250k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make pre-construction seamless, empowering builders to start projects faster with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for strong technical leaders who thrive in high-ownership, high-ambiguity environments
- 5+ years in software engineering, including 1+ year in engineering leadership
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams in startup or high-growth environments
- Strong system design and architecture fundamentals (scalable web or distributed systems)
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and turn unclear problems into structured execution
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High standards for engineering quality, reliability, and performance
- Deep technical fluency - comfortable engaging with code review, architecture, and tradeoffs
- Bonus: experience in workflow-heavy, enterprise SaaS, or infrastructure products
- Bonus: exposure to complex regulated environments (construction, logistics, government systems, etc.)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and scale a high-performing engineering team building the core infrastructure behind PermitFlow
- This is a builder-leader role. You will own both people leadership and technical execution in a fast-moving environment where systems are complex, ambiguous, and deeply connected to real-world outcomes
- You will report directly to our VP of Engineering. Our VP strongly values hands-on technical leadership - the best-fit EMs here are deeply technical, strong communicators, and comfortable staying close to architecture, system design, and the codebase to make high-quality technical decisions
- You will be expected to drive your own roadmap end-to-end from technical direction and execution planning through delivery and customer impact - ensuring what your team builds consistently performs in production and delivers real value to users
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, raising the bar for ownership, quality, and execution speed
- Build strong engineering culture through clear expectations, 1:1s, feedback loops, and career development
- Define technical direction across architecture, scalability, reliability, and long-term system evolution
- Own roadmap planning and execution from definition through delivery and customer impact
- Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate ambiguous real-world problems into scalable systems
- Drive delivery of critical infrastructure used across thousands of jurisdictions
- Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and engineering efficiency
- Play a key role in hiring and developing engineers and future leaders
Our take
Aiming to release value in the construction market, PermitFlow is an AI-powered construction permit application and management platform. It exists to simplify the pre-construction process for builders and owners, enabling them to move forward with projects more easily.
The company offers a standardized permit application workflow through which users can easily prepare and submit permit applications, receive approvals, and respond to municipal comments on one single platform. This saves time, reduces errors and shortens municipal review cycles, ultimately speeding up the time taken to permit.
Through the deployment of advanced technologies, PermitFlow has kept up with the needs of a changing market, benefitting builders and stakeholders across the nation. As AI has advanced, so too have the company's algorithms, bringing in new functionalities such as voice AI agents that can schedule an inspection as soon as a project is permitted.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2025
$54m
SERIES B
Feb 2024
$31m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90.7m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
- Company issued laptop
- Home office & equipment stipend
- Lunch & Dinner provides via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen
- Commuter benefits
- Team building events
- Unlimited PTO
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Francis Thumpasery
(CEO)Previously served as Senior Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company. Co-founded mBulance.
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