Manager, Software Development

Position Overview

Green Street is building cloud-native data platforms that power industry-leading Commercial Real Estate (CRE) intelligence. We are looking for a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for ingesting, transforming, and delivering high-quality data used by clients and internal research teams worldwide.

This is a player-coach role (~50–70% hands-on coding) where you will balance technical leadership, team development, and delivery ownership. You’ll work closely with product, data, and engineering partners to build scalable systems that process complex datasets from a wide range of public and private sources.

 

What It’s Like to Work Here

• A collaborative, transparent engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement
• Emphasis on Agile practices, paired programming, and automated testing
• Opportunities to work on high-impact, data-driven products
• Flexibility to move across teams and projects as the organization grows
• A team of passionate engineers solving complex, real-world problems

Why Join Green Street?

You’ll play a key role in shaping the systems that power one of the fastest-growing technology platforms in the CRE space—working with a team that values ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Job Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership

• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of our data platform, including ingestion pipelines, ETL processes, and database architecture
• Contribute hands-on to system design and development (Python, AWS-based services)
• Lead architecture and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
• Establish and enforce best practices for testing, observability, and code quality
• Drive adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and quality

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
• Hire and onboard engineers to support team growth and long-term scaling
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence
• Support a highly transparent and inclusive team environment

Delivery & Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent projects in an Agile environment
• Partner with Product Managers and Technical Project Managers to define scope, priorities, and delivery plans
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication
• Ensure consistent, predictable delivery with high-quality outcomes

Data Platform Ownership

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines and ingestion systems
• Ensure high standards for data quality, integrity, and availability
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Support both client-facing products and internal research workflows

Candidate Profile

What We’re Looking For

Core Qualifications

• 7 - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3 - 5 years leading engineering teams
• Proven track record of delivering complex, data-intensive systems in a cloud environment
• Strong hands-on experience with backend development and system design
• Experience designing and building data models and working with relational and/or non-relational databases
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects from concept through delivery in Agile environments

Technical Experience

• Strong proficiency in Python and data processing libraries (e.g., NumPy, Pandas)
• Experience with modern data orchestration and pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow)
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS) and containerization (Docker)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, version control (Git), and automated testing practices
• Strong database and query optimization skills (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Leadership & Collaboration

• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to balance technical depth with execution and team leadership

Nice to Have

• Experience in FinTech, data platforms, or Commercial Rea