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We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts - accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.\nDespite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.\nAs the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.\nWe’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.\nBuilding the AI Infrastructure for Construction\nConstruction remains one of the largest real-world systems still operating on fragmented, manual infrastructure.\n\nEvery project in the U.S. moves through permitting and pre-construction workflows spread across ~20,000 jurisdictions - each with inconsistent rules, systems, and levels of digitization.\n\nThis creates one of the largest bottlenecks in the physical economy, delaying housing and infrastructure projects and costing billions in lost time and capital every year.\n\nPermitFlow is rebuilding this layer from the ground up - using modern software and AI systems to automate permitting end-to-end.\n\nWe are still early, and the core systems are actively being defined.\n\nThis is one of those rare moments where engineering decisions directly shape an emerging category.\n\nRole Overview\nWe’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and scale a high-performing engineering team building the core infrastructure behind PermitFlow.\n\nThis 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nYou will operate across systems, people, and execution at scale:\nLead and grow a high-performing engineering team, raising the bar for ownership, quality, and execution speed\n\nBuild strong engineering culture through clear expectations, 1:1s, feedback loops, and career development\n\nDefine technical direction across architecture, scalability, reliability, and long-term system evolution\n\nOwn roadmap planning and execution from definition through delivery and customer impact\n\nPartner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate ambiguous real-world problems into scalable systems\n\nDrive delivery of critical infrastructure used across thousands of jurisdictions\n\nImprove system reliability, observability, performance, and engineering efficiency\n\nPlay a key role in hiring and developing engineers and future leaders\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re looking for strong technical leaders who thrive in high-ownership, high-ambiguity environments.\n5+ years in software engineering, including 1+ year in engineering leadership\n\nExperience building and scaling engineering teams in startup or high-growth environments\n\nStrong system design and architecture fundamentals (scalable web or distributed systems)\n\nAbility to lead through ambiguity and turn unclear problems into structured execution\n\nStrong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nHigh standards for engineering quality, reliability, and performance\n\nDeep technical fluency - comfortable engaging with code review, architecture, and tradeoffs\n\nBonus: experience in workflow-heavy, enterprise SaaS, or infrastructure products\n\nBonus: exposure to complex regulated environments (construction, logistics, government systems, etc.)\n\nWhy This Role Matters\nThis is not a maintenance role - it is a systems-building role at the foundation of a category being created in real time.\nPermitFlow sits at the intersection of:\nfragmented real-world regulatory infrastructure\n\nhigh-friction physical economy workflows\n\nemerging AI systems capable of automating end-to-end complexity\n\nThe systems built here directly impact how quickly housing and infrastructure projects move from idea to execution.\nThis role offers rare leverage: your decisions will shape both the engineering organization and the core product surface area at an early but rapidly scaling company.\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company\n\n100% company-paid base medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees + healthcare FSA\n\n401(k) savings plan\n\nUnlimited PTO and paid family leave\n\nHome office & equipment stipend\n\nDaily in-office lunch and dinner provided\n\nCommuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking)\n\nIf you want to build complex systems connecting software to real-world infrastructure and help define a category from the ground up, we’d love to talk.\nInside PermitFlow: The Team Transforming Construction Permitting\nPermitFlow provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or family status, as protected by applicable law.\nWe are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. 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