Staff Backend Software Engineer, Perchwell

$200-245k

Offers equity

React

AWS

Kubernetes

CSS

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Ruby

Rust

Golang

Expert level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

Data & workflow platform for residential real estate

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Data & workflow platform for residential real estate

21-100 employees

PropertyB2BMarket researchReal EstateBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Be an early applicant

$200-245k

Offers equity

React

AWS

Kubernetes

CSS

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Ruby

Rust

Golang

Expert level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

21-100 employees

PropertyB2BMarket researchReal EstateBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

To empower agents with the next generation of tools to serve their clients and grow their businesses to new heights.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ years of software development experience, primarily focused on backend services, with comfort working on frontend technologies
Expertise in distributed systems and designing scalable services on Kubernetes
Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and message passing architectures (Kafka, Red Panda, gRPC/protobufs)
Advanced backend service and API development skills using modern programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, Ruby)
Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, and separation of concerns
Experience with frontend technologies, including Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React
Proven ability to design and implement solutions using various database types (relational, columnar, document, vector)
Skilled at integrating observability and performance monitoring into all aspects of system design
Ability to work across service, database, and infrastructure boundaries to address design and performance challenges

What the job involves

As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend on the team, you’ll architect the next generation of our platform
By designing the foundational platform for our product services, you’ll help us accelerate our expansion across the real estate industry
Using your frontend and architecture expertise, you’ll create modular, performant product services and UI’s that will scale as we integrate with hundreds of client systems into the future
You will collaborate closely with Engineering leaders Jon Moniaci, Joe Kondel and others in Product, Data, and QA
Architect and develop the next-generation data platform. Design a system for high-throughput data and event-driven services
Design scalable APIs and services. Implement authentication/authorization solutions as well as core service domains like geospatial and search
Build and maintain reliable and performant infrastructure. Utilize Kubernetes, Cloud services, and other tools to drive observability best practices
Work with cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical initiatives. Collaborate with others in Engineering, Product and Data to achieve our goals of building a unified data platform

Our take

The real estate industry was initially slow to get on the tech drive, but the last few years have seen a groundswell of demand from professionals for tools that allow them to save time and labour doing the “background” work that leads to closing transactions. Perchwell’s end-to-end workflow platform capitalises on this.

Its services allow real estate agents, mortgage brokers and multiple listing services (MLSs) to more easily manage distributed data, access market research and work with clients via one API. Perchwell launched in 2015 and showed encouraging growth in New York City, eventually winning the custom of the Real Estate Board of New York, as well as major private companies like Sotheby’s.

Founded in New York, Perchwell received $25 million from the Multiple Listing Service company REcolorado in 2024, after expanding the former's customer base to REcolorado clients in 2022. The aim for Perchwell now is to accelerate the growth of its customer base, whilst developing its AI data and workflow capabilities for real estate agents.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2024

$25m

SERIES B

Oct 2022

$15m

SERIES A

Total funding: $55m

Company benefits

Health, dental, vision, spending accounts
401K match
Unlimited time off
Annual On-site Events in NYC
Maternity leave
HSA and FSA options

Company HQ

SoHo, New York, NY

Leadership

Brendan Fairbanks

(Founder & CEO)

Former Investment Banking Analyst at Deutsche Bank and former Private Equity Associate at First Reserve.

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