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title: 'Senior Manager, Engineering, Lister at Apartment List'
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# Senior Manager, Engineering, Lister at Apartment List

- **Company:** Apartment List
- **Location:** Within the, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list/am9icG9zdDpOZ71YiLcSkXZwdFBWasM8

## Job description

## About this role

As Senior Manager, Engineering for the Lister team, you'll lead the engineering behind how property partners get their listings onto Apartment List and get value back out. Through Lister, we turn partner data from across the property management landscape into accurate listings, and turn renter interest into revenue for our partners.

Reporting into the Head of Engineering, you'll play a pivotal role in executing product strategy for the Lister domain, setting the engineering vision, roadmap, and delivery across three pods, each supported by a team lead who owns day-to-day execution.

Our ideal leader is both a strong operator and a strategic one: a player-coach who brings deep expertise in backend services and data pipelines that partners depend on, and knows how to apply AI to move faster. You stay close enough to the code to keep the technical bar high while growing the engineers and championing the partners the team serves.

You'll thrive here if you're comfortable where the inputs come from external systems you don't control and no two behave alike. You embrace that messy reality, build clarity where there was none, and lead with steadiness through ambiguity and change.

Here's what you'll do as part of the team

- Own the outcomes of the Lister domain end to end: delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and the health of the team that carries it.
- Set and defend a committed quarterly roadmap across three pods, including an explicit list of what the team is not doing and why.
- Develop the team's leads. Grow their scope from project leadership toward broader ownership, and coach the engineers under them.
- Hire, mentor, and retain a high-performing team across levels, and address underperformance directly when it appears.
- Stay hands-on. Review code, drive architecture decisions on the pipeline and partner integrations, and pick up work when the situation calls for it.
- Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Partner Success, and Finance to translate ambiguous partner and regulatory pressure into scoped engineering work.
- Own the intake process for the domain. Classify incoming partner escalations, data quality reports, and feature asks, and push back when the answer is no.
- Be accountable for the reliability of the systems the team owns, including on-call health, incident response, and the operational completeness of new services.
- Represent Lister engineering to leadership: what shipped, what is at risk, what it will take.

Here are the skills and experience you'll need to be successful

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more.
- Experience managing through team leads or senior engineers, not just direct ICs.
- A track record of building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that other teams and external partners depend on.
- Comfort with messy third-party integrations. You have owned a system whose inputs you did not control, and you know how to build guardrails, observability, and reconciliation around data you cannot trust.
- Strong technical judgment. You can hold the architecture bar for a team you do not out-code, and you know when to dive in yourself.
- Experience partnering directly with Product Managers, Designers, and Analysts to shape roadmaps, not just receive them.
- A record of growing engineers, including promoting people and turning around underperformance.
- Clear written communication. You can explain a data pipeline failure to a partner-facing stakeholder and a business trade-off to an executive.
- Experience with Kotlin, Ruby, and Typescript, or the willingness to learn them.
- Experience building cloud-native applications, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.

Here's the Pay Range:

At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US base salary range for this position is:

- Zone 1: $249,000 - $302,000 TTC (including $219,000 - $266,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 2: $230,000 - $280,000 TTC (including $203,000 - $246,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 3: $212,000 - $257,000 TTC (including $186,000 - $226,000 base salary) + equity

This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.

We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.

## About Apartment List

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Apartment List is an AI-powered rental marketplace that matches renters with apartments they’ll love, while providing property managers a complete resident lifecycle platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $179M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Internet Marketplace Platforms (rental housing)
- Target customers: B2C (renters) and B2B (property managers, landlords)
- Mission: “Everyone deserves a home they love” — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)

## Products & Services
- **[Rental Search Platform]**: Free service for renters to search over 7 million apartment units across the U.S., with personalized matchmaking via AI quiz and curated listings. Type: Marketplace / SaaS.
- **[Resident Lifecycle Platform]**: AI-powered tools for leasing, engagement, and retention, including virtual leasing assistant (acquired Diffe.rent). Type: B2B SaaS.
- **[Home Bridge Connect]**: Social impact program providing free housing nights to families in crisis. Type: Non-profit initiative.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $40M; total funding of $179M across 7 rounds — [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Celebrity investors including Lizzo, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Andre Iguodala, Alex Rodriguez, and Daryl Morey — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)
- **Growth Signals**: 41M renters matched to date; 7M apartment units listed; headcount grew 8.8% YoY to 250 employees; acquired Diffe.rent (AI leasing assistant); transitioned to virtual-first company in 2020 — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑powered personalization**: Proprietary matching algorithm creates a “Perfect Match” for each renter, differentiating from standard classified listings.
- **Scale**: Largest free rental search platform in the U.S. with 7M units and 41M matches.
- **Remote‑first talent pool**: Virtual-first model allows hiring across 142 cities, 32 states, and 2 countries, enabling access to diverse talent.
- **Social impact**: Home Bridge program and DEI advocacy build brand loyalty and employee engagement.

## Strategic Focus
- Transitioning from a standard ILS (Internet Listing Service) to a full marketplace model.
- Expanding AI capabilities across the resident lifecycle (leasing, engagement, retention).
- Deepening partnerships with property managers and growing inventory.
- Maintaining a virtual-first culture to attract top talent nationally.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: 100% remote (virtual-first) with optional in‑person meetups. Employees live across 142 cities and 32 states — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Culture**: Named one of Built In’s “100 Best Companies to Work for” in the U.S. (4.6/5 rating). Emphasis on transparency, collaboration, and empowerment — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Perks**: Unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus additional paid time off; comprehensive health coverage; annual wellness week; career development & L&D programs; Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Black, Women, API, Latinx, and Pride communities — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Open roles include Senior Software Engineer, Data Scientist (GenAI), Staff Data Scientist, and Search Infrastructure Architect — [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list)

## Sources
1. [apartmentlist.com – Careers page](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
2. [apartmentlist.com – About Us](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)
3. [jobs.gem.com – Apartment List open positions](https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list)
4. [linkedin.com – Apartment List company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)
5. [apartmentlist.com – Homepage](https://www.apartmentlist.com/)

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