Backend Engineer: Senior 1

About Us

We’re looking for a backend developer who will be a key member of our tight-knit team. You will be responsible for building Services & APIs by writing code that is clean, minimal, and easy to understand.

A typical day involves working with Frontend, Design, and Product teams to solve issues that are massively scalable. Our software is used by property investors, vendors, tenants, and our operations team.

Join us to solve fundamental problems in real estate sales, leasing, accounting, and maintenance coordination.

We're looking for someone who

• Loves clear, concise, readable code
• Obsesses over continuous personal and technical improvement
• Strikes the optimal balance between rigor and velocity
• Offers multiple solutions and chooses the most appropriate
• Crafts solutions from both full specs and loosely-defined requirements
• Has empathy, a collaborative spirit, and the ability to think like a user
• Has a startup mentality: ready to solve big problems with a small team
• Has a strong work ethic

Requirements

• 5 - 7 years of experience with Java and AWS (Mandatory)
• Experience in and excited to join a high-growth, fast-paced startup (seed-Series A) (Mandatory)
• CS degree or similar from a top university (Mandatory)
• Extensive knowledge of data structures and algorithms (Mandatory)
• Ability to write concurrent code that utilizes our multi-core servers (Mandatory)
• Experience debugging code, solving problems, and fixing performance bottlenecks (Mandatory)
• Curiosity about real estate space (Nice-to-have)

Stack and Tech Culture

• Java, React, CSS, MySQL, AWS
• Github peer reviews, Jira, Slack
• In-person and remote whiteboarding when team members are away from Austin
• Avoid premature optimization: simple, fast solutions

Role Responsibilities

• Building robust and scalable APIs
• Writing clean, minimal, and easy to understand code
• Working with Frontend, Design, and Product teams
• Solving massively scalable issues
• Solving fundamental problems in real estate sales, leasing, accounting, and maintenance coordination