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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. 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.
Despite 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.
As 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.
We’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.
Construction remains one of the largest real-world systems still operating on fragmented, manual infrastructure.
Every 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.
This 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.
PermitFlow is rebuilding this layer from the ground up - using modern software and AI systems to automate permitting end-to-end.
We are still early, and the core systems are actively being defined.
This is one of those rare moments where engineering decisions directly shape an emerging category.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and scale a high-performing engineering team building the core infrastructure behind PermitFlow.
This 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.
You 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.
You 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.
You will operate across systems, people, and execution at scale:
Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, raising the bar for ownership, quality, and execution speed
Build strong engineering culture through clear expectations, 1:1s, feedback loops, and career development
Define technical direction across architecture, scalability, reliability, and long-term system evolution
Own roadmap planning and execution from definition through delivery and customer impact
Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate ambiguous real-world problems into scalable systems
Drive delivery of critical infrastructure used across thousands of jurisdictions
Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and engineering efficiency
Play a key role in hiring and developing engineers and future leaders
We’re looking for strong technical leaders who thrive in high-ownership, high-ambiguity environments.
5+ years in software engineering, including 1+ year in engineering leadership
Experience building and scaling engineering teams in startup or high-growth environments
Strong system design and architecture fundamentals (scalable web or distributed systems)
Ability to lead through ambiguity and turn unclear problems into structured execution
Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
High standards for engineering quality, reliability, and performance
Deep technical fluency - comfortable engaging with code review, architecture, and tradeoffs
Bonus: experience in workflow-heavy, enterprise SaaS, or infrastructure products
Bonus: exposure to complex regulated environments (construction, logistics, government systems, etc.)
This is not a maintenance role - it is a systems-building role at the foundation of a category being created in real time.
PermitFlow sits at the intersection of:
fragmented real-world regulatory infrastructure
high-friction physical economy workflows
emerging AI systems capable of automating end-to-end complexity
The systems built here directly impact how quickly housing and infrastructure projects move from idea to execution.
This 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.
Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
100% company-paid base medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees + healthcare FSA
401(k) savings plan
Unlimited PTO and paid family leave
Home office & equipment stipend
Daily in-office lunch and dinner provided
Commuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking)
If 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.
Inside PermitFlow: The Team Transforming Construction Permitting
PermitFlow 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.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.
