Software Engineering Manager at Vantaca+HOAi – Wilmington, North Carolina

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.
What Makes Vantaca Exciting We are rethinking software development from first principles in a post-Scrum world. We are building with AI coding agents daily and expect you to lead your team in adopting these practices effectively. Modularity in our systems allows AI agents to operate effectively.
Agentic Development: We run multiple coding agents in parallel, manage work across git worktrees, and coordinate through orchestration systems. Our team uses Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and at times other agent coding platforms. We are scaling spec-driven development to improve alignment between stakeholders within the software developmentlifecycle and improve cycle times to delivery as well as quality.
AI Engineering: We believe in architecting our codebases and systems—microservices, interfaces, etc.—to be AI-accessible. This means building for testability, observability, and modularity. Where possible, we use AI to build the factory and not just the product: writing commands, agents, AGENT.md files, and structuring our systems for synchronous and asynchronous agent collaboration. The Opportunity
As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of 4-8 engineers building next-generation features for both our core Vantaca platform and HOAi's autonomous AI agents, serving thousands of community associations and millions of homeowners. This is a hands-on leadership role: you own your team's delivery, develop your people, maintain technical standards, and continuously improve how we work.
Your responsibilities span technical leadership (architecture decisions, code review, production quality), people leadership (1:1s, career development, mentorship), cross-functional collaboration, and delivery (owning outcomes, iterating on process).
You'll drive technical excellence while fostering an environment where diverse engineering talent delivers breakthrough innovations that eliminate entire workflows for community management companies, not just speed them up. Your team's work directly impacts customers who have already achieved results like processing 600 budgets in under 10 hours (previously 1,200 hours) and automating 95% of invoice workflows. This is engineering that transforms industries. What we’re driving toward
Our teams are organized around rapid, collaborative product development focused on client success. We measure outcomes, not activities:
Throughput & Cycle Time: Shipping value faster through continuous iterationQuality: Reducing defects through testability and automated validationAI Enablement: 100% team adoption of agentic development practicesProcess Evolution: Forward-thinking adoption of AI to enable increased capabilitiesacross engineering and product
We believe desired outcomes and team/customer constraints define our process—not methodology orthodoxy.
Technical Leadership

• Own technical design, architecture decisions, and end-to-end delivery for your team's domain
• Provide substantive code review feedback that improves quality and unblocks teammates
• Monitor and reduce production defects
• Maintain technical standards while pushing the envelope with emerging technologies

People Leadership

• Conduct regular 1:1s focused on career development and removing obstacles
• Mentor engineers on technical skills, AI adoption, and professional growth
• Balance empathy with accountability, set clear expectations and follow through
• Build a team that wins together: collective outcomes over individual achievement

Delivery & Process

• Own your team's delivery and commitments
• Ensure the team is aligned and has clarity on what we're trying to accomplish
• Unblock work and remove obstacles proactively
• Iterate on process continuously as desired outcomes and team/customer constraints define our process

AI-Native Development

• Use AI coding agents daily in your own technical work
• Establish team standards for effective AI use: agentic coding patterns, context engineering, agent orchestration
• Enable the team to run multiple agents in parallel and manage complex workflows

Qualifications
Required

• 5+ years software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams
• Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar)
• Track record of delivering software that solves real customer problems
• Ability to work cross-functionally and act as a change agent

Technical Experience (Preferred)

• .NET 8+, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server
• Azure (Functions, Service Bus, Application Insights)
• Microservices, event-driven architecture, REST APIs

Background (Preferred)

• Consumer software experience (user-facing products)
• Experimentation techniques and A/B testing experience
• Zero-to-one product experience

AI-Native Experience (Valued)

• Led teams through AI tool adoption
• Experience with agentic development patterns and agent orchestration
• Understanding of how to structure codebases for AI effectiveness (testability, modularity, automated validation

Mindset

• Energized by building products that solve real customer problems at scale
• Collaborative approach to problem-solving; you elevate the team around you
• Growth-oriented—you see challenges as opportunities to learn and improve
• Excited about AI/ML innovation and its potential to transform industries

Core Values

• Always Growing: Likes change and enjoys finding new ways to improve their knowledge and the platform. Always ready to learn quickly about emerging AI technologies and infrastructure patterns, helping themselves and the team grow.
• Win as a Team: Builds trust and works together by making sure everyone communicates well. Actively involved in daily platform work, working closely with engineering teams, listening to their infrastructure needs, and celebrating technical successes together.
• Accountability Starts with Me: Notices platform problems and takes personal action to solve them. Takes ownership of platform performance, reliability, and the success of internal customers building on the platform.
• Unwavering Commitment to Customer Experience: Regularly talks to internal customers (product teams, engineers), taking personal responsibility to understand what they need from the platform, address infrastructure concerns, and make their development experience better with improved platform capabilities.
• Innovate Boldly: We challenge the status quo and push technical boundaries to create meaningful change. We act with urgency and purpose, knowing that platform innovation drives our AI-native product success.

Why You Should Join Our Team

• AI-First Product Culture - Build the intelligent infrastructure that powers AI innovation at scale
• Our eNPS is +68! (Google it, that is great)
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision kick in day one
• Unlimited PTO (with a requirement for employees to take a minimum of one continuous week per year)
• 401K with Company Match
• Remote Flexible - come to the office when needed
• Great parental leave benefits
• Named on Inc 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies
• Named on Inc 5000 Vet 100 Private Companies list multiple years in a row
• Winner of Coastal Entrepreneur Award, Technology Category
• Active employee-led Culture Committee
• Ongoing industry and professional development trainings available to all employees
• Multiple leaders on the executive committee recognized as 40 under 40 recipients for contributions to business and community
• We're playing offense to win! Our product market fit and our world-class employees make us the leader in our space. We're building something cool and people like it here

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.