Head of Product Engineering

Title :  Head of Product Engineering

Department :  Product

Reports to :  Chief Executive Officer

Location :  Scottsdale, Arizona

About Wise Pelican

Wise Pelican is hiring a  Head of Product Engineering  to help us reinvent our software development department as AI-first. You'll lead a small, high-velocity team of recent graduates, training them in modern vibe coding practices while delivering high-quality, high-impact features that our real estate customers love.

This isn't about joining an existing team?it's about building something new. You'll have full ownership to hire, mentor, and scale a team of talented early-career developers, teaching them to leverage AI tools to ship 10x faster than traditional development teams. From defining product strategy to architecting systems to building robust CI / CD pipelines that automate QA and deployments, you're going to play a pivotal role in transforming how Wise Pelican builds and ships software.

Wise Pelican is an innovative leader in real estate marketing solutions, empowering real estate professionals with cutting-edge tools and services. As a growing company with a global workforce, we foster a dynamic, inclusive work environment that promotes growth, innovation, and collaboration.

This position is a full-time role located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

What Will You Do?

• Build & lead the team :  After you get your footing- hire and onboard a small cohort of talented recent-grad developers; mentor them into high-output, product-minded builders; establish best practices for AI-first development using tools like Claude Code and Cursor; and create a culture of shipping, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Be your own Product Manager :  Define what to build and why, collaborate with customers and stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities, make trade-offs based on business value and user impact, translate vision into actionable specs, and iterate on real usage metrics.
• DevOps & infrastructure :  Build and maintain CI / CD that automates testing, QA, and deployments; implement infrastructure-as-code; create monitoring / logging / alerting; and reduce friction so the team can ship multiple times per day.
• Hands-on development :  Lead by example; architect and build full-stack systems in our Angular + Node.js + MongoDB stack; design RESTful APIs, data models, and AWS cloud infrastructure; set code-quality standards for the AI-assisted era; and run pragmatic code reviews.

What Big Things Will You Own?

At first?

Once you get your footing?

Who Are You?

Where Can You Easily Impress Us?

What?s In It For You?

401(k) at tenure milestone :  We hope you?ll want to stop working here one day. This should help.