Founding Head of Engineering - Abstract

Remote, U.S.

Title and settlement is a $17B-a-year industry, and $3.5–5.0B of it is back-office spend that runs on fixed, manual labor. Across roughly 20,000 independent title and settlement service providers processing 5.5M+ real estate transactions a year, back-office teams do overwhelmingly rules-based work: extracting data from contracts, classifying documents, ordering vendor services, tracking exceptions, and recording files post-closing. This workforce is retiring, and we are building the national platform that converts its fixed-cost labor into a variable, AI-powered cost structure: faster closings, fewer errors, lower cost per file.

The prize is bigger than the spend we replace. The company that absorbs this work doesn't sell software to the title industry, it becomes the operating layer the industry runs on, with the margin structure of software and the revenue of the services it replaced. We are building this operating layer from inside the industry. Our CEO runs one of the largest independent title operations companies in the country and has opened its workflows, team, data, and hundreds of customers to us, accelerating and derisking our build from day one.

• Demand is already flowing. Our CEO is an industry pioneer who operates a major title agency network with existing assets, relationships, customers and revenues. Your work is to rebuild an AI-native system and absorb existing volume and scale, not to find the first customers.
• Studio backing. Stackpoint, the venture studio behind a portfolio of vertical AI real estate companies, is our first investor and operating partner: founded by repeat entrepreneurs who have built unicorn tech companies, Stackpoint provides capital, engineering support, and a deep network of real estate operators and executives.
• Multiple growth levers. New states, adjacent services on the same rails, and partnership models that let established operators run their volume through our platform. Each lever compounds the others.
• True influence from day one. Youʼll shape strategy, product, culture, and execution from the beginning.

You’ll be Abstract's technical leader. You’ll lead three engineers at mixed levels, from early-career to principal, and shape how the team grows from there. This is a hands-on, player-coach seat that spans architecture, code, evals, and how the team operates. You’ll take the first version of the platform, built with Stackpoint's studio team, and extend it to new lines of business and new agencies.

Together with the founding engineers, you’ll set the technical foundation every future engineer builds on. You’ll report to our Head of Product & Operations and work closely with our CEO.

• Own the architecture and the technical bar
• Lead system architecture, data models, and platform direction with the engineering team, and make the call when the team doesn’t converge.
• Decide what to build, buy, or integrate, and when a prototype has earned the investment to scale.
• Keep the platform reliable and cost-efficient as volume grows and we expand to new agencies and states.
• Set the engineering standards the team works to: code review, testing, and deployment.
• Ship agentic AI that holds up on real transactions
• Lead how the team builds extraction, classification, and retrieval over messy title and settlement documents, including integrations with the legacy software, portals, and email- and file-based workflows the industry still runs on.
• Own the evaluation system and guardrails: measure accuracy and confidence before anything ships, and decide what work goes to human review.
• Build the human-in-the-loop product
• Lead the build…