VP, Engineering

Who We Are

Invitation Homes is a fast-paced evolving publicly traded REIT that is pioneering a new industry with over 80000 single family rental homes and a market capitalization of over $25 billion. We are a team of more than 1400 associates who come from all walks of life. We call different communities home but our shared values bind us together. Invitation Homes is a place where possibility lives.

A deeply-technical engineer at heart and excited about doing code and design reviews growing up-and-coming coders but can also manage a budget forecasting and resource planning. Comfortable working in a high-change high-growth environment and acting decisively to get things done without reckless abandon. Someone with an eye toward fostering a strong team culture especially in diversity and -ego and able to collaborate across all levels of the business and technology to build strong relationships in order to deliver a superb resident and associate experience. Organized accountable and action-oriented with the ability to both live and teach those skills.

Invitation Homes does not offer employment-based visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

What Youll Do

• Lead the technical vision for how we build the product and use technologies to inform our product roadmap across resident associate and investors

• Determine software roadmap for when to build custom applications vs. invest in purchased solutions vs. technical partnerships

• Hire develop and coach a high-performing diverse team of managers and engineers. Responsible for the growth and retention of high talent engineers thru both a creation of a proper technical track and external engagements

• Lead multiple teams focused on product engineering through a rapid growth phase of the company lifecycle

• Define goals and oversee engineering execution with an overall goal of excellence in code quality and seamless rapid code deployment

• Partner closely with the product management team to align the product and technical roadmaps

• Focus on scoping resourcing and capabilities in order to meet expected outcomes related to delivery and finances. Ability to deliver consistently on-time on-budget and on point related to quality.

• Select and manage vendors who provide ERP solutions in a manner which delivers high business value and technical assurances

• Select and manage vendors who provide engineering resources in a manner which obtains the best value for the spend while still ensuring implementation excellence

• Responsible for vendor negotiations specifically related to engineering outcomes staff augmentation models and skill assessment of assigned technical resources

• Review possible technical ventures to determine viability of platforms

• Be well respected internally and externally as a technical guru in both the specific space of single-family home rentals and more broadly software development

Who Were Looking For

• Bachelors Degree or related experience

• 15 years of experience in software development and architecture

• 10 years of experience managing engineering teams

• Knowledge of technical operational and cultural structures required to scale teams in a high-growth environment

• Strong technologist with knowledge of various architectural styles including layered monolithic client-server or component based

• Keen business acumen with ability to complete business cases including NPV and ROI related activities

• Knowledge or awareness of both core and modern languages such as: Javascript Typescript React Java Objective C Swift Kotlin C/ SQL

• Aware of IOT and IA evolving trends

Why Invitation Homes

We stand for flexibility opportunity and a home that people can make their own. Its as true for our associates as it is for our residents. Just like we help our residents live freer we liberate our associates careers too. Our associates know that at Invitation Homes goals matter potential is unlocked and careers thrive. Invitation Homes isnt just a work place it is a possibility place. Invitation Homes offers the below to each new associate:

• Competitive pay and an annual bonus program for all associates

• Generous paid time off plans including vacation accrual sick time volunteer time and standard and floating holidays

• 401k with matching company contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings

• Employee resource groups: Together with Women Asian Alliance Black Collective Juntos Gen Next and Open Invitation.

Invitation Homes truly is where possibility lives pour a new foundation here!

Salary Range

Compensation and Benefits

To attract and retain top talent were pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits including:

• Annual bonus program

• Health dental vision and life insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Generous paid time off plans include vacation accrual sick time standard holidays and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)

Invitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please contact us at .

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