Join our rapidly growing PropTech company as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will balance your time between scaling our systems and driving new feature initiatives from concept to production. With product market fit established and a rapidly growing customer base, this is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative team.
Mission:
Backed by experienced industry executives, we are transforming the home buying and selling experience by leveraging data and intuitive design. We envision a future where every real estate professional will exceed customer expectations making every transaction seamless and transparent.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of innovative features from concept to launch, ensuring they meet user needs and drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
- Gather feedback and leveraging metrics to make rapid product adjustments.
- Collaborat with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and launch new features.
- Develop secure and reliable data pipelines and processing frameworks to support real estate agents with both client and third-party data.
- Prompt engineering to extract structured data and insights from existing data and generate hyper-personalized content.
- Building systems like latency-sensitive telephonic systems for natural conversations, accessing external data that lack APIs using web data extraction methods, event processing for live data enrichment, and leveraging the latest LLM techniques for consistent, reliable offerings at scale.
Our Culture:
We prioritize in-person collaboration for quick decisions and real-time teamwork. We know we win as a team so everyone helps each other succeed. We focus on customer needs and feedback, driving our development process. Transparency is key, as we openly share progress, challenges, and successes with our team and stakeholders
Must-Have Skills:
- 5+ years of professional experience developing software in languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience in data engineering, including the creation of secure and reliable data pipelines.
- Expertise in system architecture and API design for seamless integration.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable backend systems.
- Experience and Curiosity in Generative AI.
- Proficient in SQL for data manipulation and insights extraction.
- A bias to move quickly and an ownership mentality.
- A data driven mindset that uses metrics to measure success and guide decisions.
- Ability to rapidly test ideas to gather valuable customer insights.
- Located in Seattle (in-person collaboration is key to our success).
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience in PropTech or real estate technology.
- Previous startup experience.
- Familiarity with frontend technologies (React, CSS, JavaScript).
- Experience working on AI or machine learning systems.
Compensation:
- Competitive startup salary.
- Generous equity stake.
- Health insurance.
- Flexible Time Off policy.
- Commuting benefits.
- Office snacks and weekly catered lunch.
- Dog-friendly office (bring your own dog or enjoy petting others).
- Conveniently located in Pioneer Square, near light rail and the Sounder train.