Head of Engineering

Flock Homes, San Francisco or Denver +2

The role

Build Flock Homes 2.0 while scaling Flock Homes 1.0. That is the job in one line.

You will run engineering at Flock – the people, the roadmap, the architecture, the sprints, and a meaningful share of the code. We are a lean team, without a product manager, so you will also be the person responsible for translating business vision to product vision, and the person who says no when the answer should be no.

We want someone with strong opinions about what is worth building and the conviction to argue for them, who owns technical direction rather than waiting for it to be handed to them, and who holds a high standard for what is allowed to ship as version one. This is a player-coach seat today with a path to CTO for the person who earns it.

What you will do

What you will own in the first 12 to 18 months

Throughput. Continue to scale our core exchange fund’s existing infrastructure so that our funnel can handle five to ten times today's volume without five to ten times the people.

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Head of Engineering

Flock Homes, San Francisco or Denver +2

The role

Build Flock Homes 2.0 while scaling Flock Homes 1.0. That is the job in one line.

What you will do

What you will own in the first 12 to 18 months

Throughput. Continue to scale our core exchange fund’s existing infrastructure so that our funnel can handle five to ten times today's volume without five to ten times the people.

What you need

You have led engineers at a growth-stage fintech or financial infrastructure company, and you are ready to step up. You want real ownership of the technical direction of a company.
Still close to the code. You have written meaningful production code in the last year, and you want to keep doing so
You have shipped software where correctness mattered: payments, lending, brokerage, infrastructure, anything where a wrong line of code costs real money or real trust
You frame the problem before you solve it, and you make the people around you do the same
You have opinions about what should be built and the conviction to argue for them, including with the CEO and COO
You are calm under pressure and able to parse noise from signal
You are comfortable context switching rapidly: being the product manager, the architect, and a senior engineer in the same week
You want to be in an office, in person, with the team, five days a week. If you are not energized by that, this is not the role for you.

Who this is probably not

We say this to save everyone time, not to be difficult.

Someone whose last meaningful code was three or four years ago
Someone whose instinct is to seek consensus over progress
Someone coming from a large, highly institutionalized engineering org who has not operated with a small team and no safety net
Someone chasing whatever company or industry is hot, who is not motivated by Flock's mission, structure, and ownership

How we work

A few things that are true about Flock Homes and will be true about you if you join our team.

Excellence is the bar, everywhere. Acceptable work produces an artifact. Excellent work produces an experience: someone on the other end who trusts us more than they did before. We expect the second one, and we expect you to hold the team to it.
Know which doors are one-way. Some decisions can be walked back. Some cannot. We move fast on the reversible ones and think hard on the rest. We expect you to know the difference and to set the tempo accordingly.
Ship fast, but the core cannot break. We are an SEC-regulated investment product. We need to move fast but with intention.
Direct and honest. We say what we think, we disagree in the open, and we commit once a decision is made. We would rather hear an uncomfortable truth early than a comfortable one late.
Taste still matters. We use AI heavily and expect you to. But AI also makes it easy to produce something adequate quickly. The job is knowing the difference between adequate and good, and refusing to ship the former.
Small team, no hiding. Everyone at Flock does real work. There is no layer of management to disappear into. For the right person, this is a feature not a bug.

Head of Engineering

The role

What you will do

What you will own in the first 12 to 18 months

Head of Engineering

The role

What you will do

What you will own in the first 12 to 18 months

What you will do

What you need

Where we are today

Pay and benefits

About Flock Homes

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