Jordan Krey
Director of Engineering · RentRedi
Director of Engineering at RentRedi, with more than 20 years designing scalable SaaS platforms and guiding teams through complex architectural challenges. Previously at Datavant, SingleOps, Buildium, and Citigroup, and the author of a long-running blog on engineering careers.
About
Jordan Krey is Director of Engineering at RentRedi, an engineering leader with more than 20 years of experience designing scalable SaaS platforms and guiding teams through complex architectural challenges. At RentRedi he fosters technical excellence through mentorship, empathy, and collaboration.
He has built the same kind of platform before, on the same side of the market. At Buildium he joined when the company had around 50 employees, served as Senior Director of Engineering defining product and technology strategy, helped increase payments revenue by over 400 percent, and helped lead the company to a $580 million acquisition. He then served as VP of Engineering at SingleOps and Director of Engineering at Datavant. Earlier he held multiple lead engineer roles at Citigroup, where colleagues credit him with bridging business needs and technology solutions.
He writes publicly about the part of engineering that is not code. His blog KREY{Z} is an engineer's guide to people, office politics, and career growth, with posts on estimation, stakeholder management, production support, defensive code, and why a software engineer should understand the business. Off the clock he explores emerging tech and spends time outdoors with his family.
What Jordan is known for
Scaling a property management platform through its growth years once already, and coaching engineers to own their careers rather than only their tickets.
Expertise
Experience
Engineering leadership at the health data logistics company.
Appointed in August 2021 to accelerate research and development on the business management platform for arborists and landscape professionals.
Joined at around 50 employees and defined product and technology strategy. Helped increase payments revenue by over 400 percent and helped lead Buildium to a $580 million acquisition.
Held multiple lead engineer roles, directing cross-functional projects and bridging business requirements and technical delivery.
Education
Property management software has to do more than look good on the surface. It needs to be reliable, scalable, and built around the way landlords and tenants actually use it, especially when it comes to something as critical as payments. Having spent more than 20 years building SaaS platforms, including years scaling a property management platform at Buildium, I have seen firsthand how important the underlying technology is to creating a product that customers can depend on as their business grows.— Jordan Krey, Director of Engineering, RentRedi
