Engineering Manager, Voice AI Agents Platform at Vantaca+HOAi – Redwood City, California

Engineering Managers help build an inspiring workplace where talented people are empowered to drive amazing customer experiences and business results. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will own the engineering vision and execution for HOAi's Voice AI Agents—the intelligent voice and chat agents that function like experienced community association managers, handling complex multi-step processes autonomously across phone, email, and messaging channels.

You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people management to build and ship production-grade conversational AI that delights customers and transforms how the property management industry operates. This means writing code and reviewing architectures alongside your team while also coaching engineers, running rituals, and shaping career paths. You will leverage your strong engineering fundamentals in distributed systems and real-time infrastructure—paired with a sharp product instinct—to solve critical business problems, set direction for your team, and serve as a key collaborator on business strategy within the product and development organization.

You will influence best engineering practices through hands-on leadership and help scale our next phase of rapid growth. Specific areas for impact include building and scaling the Voice AI engineering team, architecting reliable agent orchestration and voice pipelines, and providing technical and strategic leadership to evolve our AI agents from reactive assistants into proactive, reasoning-driven autonomous workers.

We are looking for a dynamic leader and technologist with deep distributed systems expertise and a passion for building real-time products who pushes boundaries and thinks beyond expectations to inspire a talented team to do the same. This position involves managing a team of 4–8 engineers while remaining deeply hands-on—contributing to design, code, and architecture decisions daily.

This role is a unique chance to build something from the ground up—standing up a next-generation conversational AI agent platform today and shaping its evolution into a fully autonomous AI workforce that transforms how an entire industry operates. You'll need to understand real-time infrastructure (streaming pipelines, telephony, latency optimization), distributed systems at scale, and how these capabilities intersect with HOAi's broader AI platform. Prior AI/LLM experience is a plus but not required—what matters is the ability to learn fast and apply strong engineering fundamentals to a rapidly evolving domain. Working closely with product management and the leadership team, you will be a critical component to accelerating the innovation HOAi is bringing to customers with taste and speed.

We receive many resumes for our open positions and each one is reviewed by a human being on our recruiting team. We will compare your background with the qualifications and requirements for the position. If you are selected for an interview you will receive an e-mail from someone on our recruiting team with an @vantaca.com email address. It may take some time for us to review all of the applications so give us some time to respond. We appreciate your interest in this role.