Engineering Manager, Platform

About Vantaca

Powered by AI, Vantaca's vision is big! We are the leading AI-native community management performance platform that enables owners and operators, community management teams, boards and associations to work smarter, faster, and with unprecedented insight. More than just accounting and management software, Vantaca is intelligent business operating software that leverages artificial intelligence to automate routine work, surface actionable insights, and help our customers increase revenue, efficiency, flexibility, and control.

Built on modern cloud architecture with a single-platform design, Vantaca combines comprehensive functionality that adapts to 100% of business processes with AI-powered automation that learns and improves over time. Our proactive AI capabilities don't just report on what happened; they predict what's coming and recommend what to do next. From intelligent document processing and predictive analytics to automated workflows and conversational interfaces, we're transforming how community management companies operate.

With seamless integrations across the software and banking ecosystem, we're building the intelligent hub for community management where AI doesn't just assist, it anticipates. Vantaca is focused exclusively on community management and is the trusted technology leader defining the AI-powered future of the community association management industry. We're building something fundamentally different, and our customers are experiencing the competitive advantage that comes from working with truly intelligent software.

Vantaca just achieved unicorn status with a $1.25B valuation, so it's safe to say we're past the "scrappy startup phase." We're not just building a successful company-we're building the category-defining platform that will transform how an entire industry operates.

Overview

Community association management is one of the last industries that software hasn't really fixed. Tens of thousands of managers are buried in manual work, including tracking violations, chasing payments, fielding homeowner requests, etc. All within an industry that serves 75 million Americans and is still largely run on spreadsheets and phone calls.

Vantaca is changing that. We're the AI-first platform purpose-built for this industry. 6.5M doors, 550+ management companies, $1.25B valuation, 100% YoY growth, and we've only just started. AI agents already run the back office for our customers. We're building the platform layer that every product team and every AI agent depends on, for the first time. The Engineering Manager, Platform, shapes it rather than inherits it.

What You'll Own

Identity & Access Management

* Design and deliver a centralized IAM layer, including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and multi-tenant identity, which is used across all Vantaca surfaces and API consumers.

* Greenfield with org-wide reach once shipped.

API infrastructure & developer experience

* Build the gateway, versioning, and contracts that internal teams and external partners depend on, and own the developer experience of consuming them.

* Time-to-first-call, SDK quality, sandbox, and documentation are part of the bar, not an afterthought.

AI orchestration layer

* Own the orchestration layer that governs how AI agents plan, reason, and execute across platform APIs.

* This includes tool routing, execution lifecycle, rate limiting, quota enforcement, and the reliability contracts that make autonomous agent workflows trustworthy at scale.

Engineering standards & security

* Set and champion cross-team standards for quality, testing, and security, embedded in how the platform team works and how other teams adopt platform services.

Team leadership

* Lead and grow a platform engineering team.

* Hire AI-native engineers, build high trust, and partner closely with product engineering leads across the org.

Requirements

Platform & API craft

* 7+ years in software engineering; 3+ years managing engineering teams

* Hands-on experience building developer platforms, API gateways, or internal platform services consumed by multiple teams at scale - thousands of daily active consumers across a multi-tenant system

* IAM expertise: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, RBAC, multi-tenant identity at scale

* API design discipline - evolvable contracts, versioning, rate limiting, and a genuine opinion about developer experience

* Distributed systems fundamentals: queuing, event-driven patterns, observability, SLIs/SLOs

* Strong relational data modeling and correctness under scale

AI Native Development

* Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) - this is a baseline, not a differentiator

* Deep experience designing and operating AI orchestration systems: agent planning loops, tool routing, execution lifecycle, and failure recovery

* You write specs before code and use AI to execute them - agentic development is your default workflow, not an experiment

* LLM production experience: cost/latency tradeoffs, evals, observability at scale

* Polyglot and…