Principal Software Engineer, Tomo
Front End
$190-220k
Digital mortgage platform
Open for applications
Digital mortgage platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To remove the hassle, stress, and frustration from buying a home.
Role
Who you are
- A history (5+ years) of delivering meaningful software projects to production – from conception through design, delivery, and iteration
- Experience with delivering high-quality customer experiences on large consumer-facing websites, including a deep understanding of front-end technology stacks and how to use them to produce performant, satisfying, well-crafted user experiences
- Understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous deployment, and automated testing
- Expertise with React and/or Next.js
- To be inquisitive, ready to engage in vibrant debate, make difficult decisions quickly, learn continuously and mentor your teammates to do the same
- Has empathy for users and enjoys building customer-facing products that improve the home buying journey— discovering, touring, buying and owning!
- Brings their own unique background and experiences to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives
- Accepts the ambiguity of startups and is eager to collaborate with others to determine what needs to be done to drive a project forward
- Contributes wherever they can provide the most value, even if it’s not their area of expertise
- Wants to hone their craft as a software engineer and is excited to learn new technologies
- Eagerly mentors and collaborates with other members of the team
- Enjoys working with a geographically distributed team (US)
Desirable
- Expertise with SEO, site performance, and tools like PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse
- Experience with AWS and cloud-based deployment and operational contexts
- Experience in working on fintech or home lending technology systems
What the job involves
- Building high performance customer experiences using a combination of React, Next.js, Tailwind, Typescript, Storybook and a mix of client- and server-side rendered pages
- Lead scoping and definition for team project work
- Supporting deployed systems in production as part of an on-call rotation
- Driving healthy software engineering practices – including code review, automated testing (95% code coverage), and continuous delivery
- Working closely with user experience designers in promoting accessibility best practices, design languages and brand recognition efforts
- Partnering with other engineers to define API contracts and the structure of the backend, server, and client components
Our take
Tomo is a fintech startup looking to revolutionize the real estate industry, which has been lagging behind other crucial modern sectors in terms of leveraging the potential of new technological developments. Tomo’s ambition is strong, and whilst it's keeping its horizons broad, the company is starting with a mortgage and transaction platform aimed at making the transaction process smoother for both estate agents and consumers.
The founding members of Tomo are both former executives at the real estate database giant Zillow, and their impressive seed funding includes backing from Trulia co-founder Pete Flint and Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff. This level of confidence and experience puts the company in good stead within the increasingly competitive real estate tech industry. What's more, Tomo is smart to place equal emphasis on the buyer as well as the seller - this distinguishes its platform from more seller-centric offerings like Zillow Offer and OpenDoor.
With impressive seed funding and investor confidence, coupled with experienced leadership and a potentially massive market, Tomo is well-positioned to deliver on its ambitious promise.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$20m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $170m
Company benefits
- We strive to anticipate your needs in order for you to be a healthy, motivated, and happy team member. We provide a variety of competitive benefits including (but not limited to):
- Competitive compensation packages that include equity for all
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for you and your dependents with some plans 100% covered
- Work-life balance and a generous paid time off policy
- In order to support teammates who become parents, Tomo provides paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Greg Schwartz
(CEO)They studied at Hamilton College before working at DoubleClick, Yahoo!, and CNN Money for a combined 8 years. They spent 13 years at Zillow Group, leaving their President role in January 2020 to co-found Tomo that October.
Carey Armstrong
(COO)After a degree in English at Harvard, they worked as a Forrester Senior Industry Analyst for half a decade before taking an MBA and spending 3 years at BCG. They then worked for Zillow Group from 2013 to 2020, when they founded Tomo with Greg.
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