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Head of Engineering

Career Renew
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California, USA
$200,000 - $260,000 yearly
Aug 03, 2026

Job Description

Job Description
Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Head of Engineering - this is a hybrid position in San Francisco. Salary range: 200-260K USD base plus benefits plus equity.
We are making permitting unremarkable. The US is short 4–7 million homes, and the permit process is among the slowest parts of building them. We spent thousands of hours with hundreds of staff and applicants across 50+ municipalities before a line of code was written. We're building toward an agentic system that fundamentally changes how local government works, starting with permitting.

We've raised $5M from top-tier investors, we're profitable, and we have more customer demand than we can keep up with. Our customers include San Francisco, New York City, Sonoma County, and the State of Delaware.

Why this role now

We have product-market fit and a team of distributed senior/staff engineers (all working PST timezone), but no one owns engineering execution end-to-end. Sales and NRR are accelerating rapidly, and engineering needs to match.


We've built the company as an AI-native engineering org: a lean team using aggressive AI leverage to out-ship bigger competitors. It's a fundamentally different operating model, and it needs a player-coach to run it.


What you'll do

  • Own what ships, how fast, and how reliably. End-to-end accountability for engineering output, on timelines we stand behind. You stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and earn your team's trust.

  • Align technical decisions with business goals. Make architectural calls that builds and protects our competitive moat: user experience, data modeling, and data centricity.

  • Make the hard calls the company needs. Cut scope, hold a high bar, and optimize for what Infilla needs to win.

  • Get real velocity from AI tools. Every engineer has access to whatever they need. Your job is making that access pay off in what ships. No AI slop.

  • Build the operating system for engineering and the team that runs it. Code review, on-call, incident response, security. The basics exist. You make them good. Raise the hiring bar as we grow selectively. You own both the bar and the team's size.


What success looks like

Engineering is not a bottleneck to the business’s growth and is a competitive advantage. This means:

  • Engineering is shipping fast, not fighting tools or process

  • Delivery is predictable: we can commit to customer timelines and hit them

  • There isn’t a tradeoff between speed and quality of what gets shipped

  • We've shipped capabilities no government software company has shipped before

Requirements:
7+ years of experience as a strong IC engineer and recently led teams at an early-stage B2B start-up (Mandatory)
Non-negotiable to have operated in a 10-20 person company before (Mandatory)
Led a distributed engineering team of 5+ at an early-stage B2B startup (Mandatory)
Experience building user-facing products at the application layer and ideally strong fluency with data modelling and production data systems (Mandatory)
GovTech or regulated industries (e.g., health tech, fintech), former founders or founding engineers, or at data-centric product companies (e.g., Hex, Amplitude) (Nice-to-have)
Strong technical fundamental and shipped production code in the last 6 months (Mandatory)
Fluent across the stack including React, Node, Postgres, AWS, and Terraform (Mandatory)
Ability to be an intellectual sparring partner with leadership including accepting direct feedback and pushing back when genuinely disagreeing (Mandatory)
Interfaced with external stakeholders/customers and able to translate technical concepts to non-technical individuals in a concise manner (Mandatory)
Genuine and/or demonstrated excitement to solve the specific domain problem of the housing crisis / boring government software (Mandatory)
Why candidates should join us

  • A Broken System, a Clear Fix – The US is short 4–7 million homes and the permit process is one of the slowest parts of building them. Local government has never had a modern system of record, let alone an agentic one. Infilla is building it – AI-native, purpose-built for the people who actually use it, and is already running it i

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