About RentSpree

RentSpree is the nation's leading home rental software. Our award-winning product suite simplifies the entire rental journey—from applications and screening to payments and lease management. Our mission is to bring transparency, efficiency, and trust to agents, landlords, and renters alike.

With over 3 million users, partnerships with 300+ leading real estate companies and MLS platforms, and nine years of consistent growth, RentSpree is at the forefront of proptech innovation. Our award-winning solutions deliver automation and real-time insights that make renting faster, easier, and more secure for our customers.

RentSpree is a proud Forbes' Best Startup Employer and we were also ranked one of BuiltIn Seattle’s Best Places to Work. As one of the fastest-growing property tech startups in the U.S., we’re looking for talented problem-solvers to contribute meaningful impact as we scale.

Chief Technology Officer - Seattle, WA (hybrid)

RentSpree is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our global engineering teams in Seattle and Bangkok. In this strategic role, you’ll partner closely with our COO (Head of Product) and Chief Experience Officer to drive the development and execution of forward-thinking solutions aligned with our product vision. This is a high-impact position requiring hands-on leadership. You will play a key role in shaping RentSpree’s technical direction and infrastructure to support innovation and operational excellence.

We value continuous learning, experimentation, and staying at the forefront of emerging technologies and methodologies. If you have a proven track record of effectively leading globally distributed teams and making a meaningful impact, we’d love to connect.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage approximately 65 engineering, data, security, and IT team members, distributed evenly across Seattle and Bangkok in a hybrid working environment.
• Collaborate closely with the COO (Head of Product) and Chief Experience Officer to shape and deliver on the company’s product vision and strategic goals.
• Actively participate in product planning, roadmap development, and execution, ensuring alignment between technical strategies and business objectives.
• Foster high-performance team execution with a strong sense of urgency, determination, and a passion for achieving excellence.
• Actively participate in product planning, roadmap development, and execution, ensuring alignment between technical strategies and business objectives.
• Drive excellence in software engineering practices, promoting innovation, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain hands-on involvement as necessary, proactively unlocking technical challenges and enabling team members to excel.
• Oversee the company's technical infrastructure, ensuring robust security, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, accountability, and mentorship across a global, hybrid organization.

Our job descriptions evolve with our business needs and priorities. In addition to the description above, your role may include additional tasks, projects and team support as needed.

Skills You Bring

• Proven experience as CTO, VP of Engineering, or senior technical leadership role a part of an executive team driving strategy in a high-growth tech environment.
• Deep expertise in software engineering, architecture, infrastructure management, and cloud-based solutions.
• Mixed experience both leading smaller companies to scale, and understanding what works at mature companies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead globally distributed teams, ideally in a hybrid or remote-first culture.
• Strong critical and strategic thinking skills, with experience aligning technology initiatives to business objectives and product roadmaps.
• Effective collaborator, able to navigate conflict in a productive manner and the ability to partner across departments with executives and product leaders and staff to deliver cohesive results.
• Hands-on leadership style, comfortable engaging directly with complex technical challenges to empower team effectiveness.
• Excellent communication and change management skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong emotional intelligence, positive energy, with exceptional leaderships skills and the ability to flex to differing employee needs and perspectives.
• Thoughtful, kind, respectful, and a model of integrity and good will.

Qualities You Practice

These encompass our guiding principles and startup culture competencies:

• Take full ownership and accountability: Drives projects from idea to execution, with pride, urgency, and a “do what it takes” mentality. Allowing your team to do the same by empowering, developing, and recognizing them.
• Collaborate with clarity, candor, and respect: Communicate openly and courageously, offer and receive feedback well, and build trust through transparency and reliable partnership.
• Strive for excellence while staying humble: Driven with a bias for action, hold a high bar, think critically, and continuously look to improve.
• Bring a versatile, proactive mindset: Adapt to evolving needs, anticipate challenges, take initiative, be resourceful, and embrace opportunities to achieve high quality results.
• Innovate and learn fast: Experiment, learn from failure, and seek opportunities to introduce new methods or diverse ways of achieving results.
• Engage in healthy debate and commit as a team: Contribute ideas, challenge constructively, and align quickly for decisive action.

Why Join Us? Our Award-Winning Benefits & Culture

As a fast-growing startup, our culture is built on collaboration, curiosity, and the drive to build something meaningful together. From most comprehensive benefits starting on day one to an environment built on trust, respect, and belonging, we make sure our team feels supported every step of the way. Here’s what we offer:

• Competitive Compensation & Equity Options: Share in the value we’re creating—your work makes a real impact. Dependent on background and experience, you can expect your total cash compensation to be between 325,000-400,000.
• Team-First Culture: Join a group of talented, supportive teammates who inspire each other to do their best work and celebrate every win.
• Learning & Development: Ongoing support for your growth through resources, coaching, and career development opportunities.
• Health Coverage: Comprehensive employee + dependent medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA/FSA options. Plus, enjoy additional health perks like access to Headspace Care+, gym membership discounts, and much more — because your well-being matters, inside and out.
• Plan for your future: Life, disability, and Simple IRA retirement plan with company match to support your future.
• Flexible Vacation Policy: We trust you to take the time you need to rest and recharge.
• Holidays: Enjoy 12 holidays throughout the year, as a part of our commitment to honoring culture, history, and time to recharge.
• Events & Recognition Programs: Time to connect, celebrate, share ideas, and enjoy weekly meals together, in-person and remotely.
• Business Expense Allowance & Internet Reimbursement: Get the tools and support you need to do your best work.
• Parental Leave & Fertility Support: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, wherever you are in life.
• Additional benefits: Group legal benefits and tax support with RocketLawyer.

Ready to Build Something Big?

We’re a team of talented, kind, and supportive people who take ownership, move with urgency, and strive for excellence. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and take on exciting challenges, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t meet every requirement!

EEO Statement

RentSpree is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. RentSpree makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.