Senior Backend Software Engineer, Perchwell

Rails

$170-200k

Offers Equity

React

AWS

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Backbone

RDS

Rails

Ruby on Rails

REST API

Senior and Expert level

New York

More information about location

3+ days a week in office (Soho, Manhattan, NY)

Data & workflow platform for residential real estate

Be an early applicant

Data & workflow platform for residential real estate

21-100 employees

PropertyB2BMarket researchReal EstateBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Be an early applicant

$170-200k

Offers Equity

React

AWS

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Backbone

RDS

Rails

Ruby on Rails

REST API

Senior and Expert level

New York

More information about location

3+ days a week in office (Soho, Manhattan, NY)

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

BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience collaborating on software development projects
2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails (our current technology)
Experience with front end development frameworks with preference for React and Backbone
Past experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
Appreciation for (and the ability to create) simple and beautiful UI
Question assumptions, experiment with new technologies, and find the development of a reliable and maintainable system just as exciting as we do

Desirable

Expertise with the following technologies:
Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL
Rails fundamentals: ActiveRecord/ActiveQuery, ActionController, ActionMailer
Delayed job or other message queue implementations
CoffeeScript
AWS services including: EC2, RDS, CloudFront, ECR, S3, and Route53, or PostgreSQL
Implementing RESTful APIs and, in particular, OData-compliant services
Working with omnichannel communication APIs (incl. email, SMS, push notifications, etc.)

What the job involves

We are looking for an experienced full-stack or backend engineer to take part in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle
As part of our small team of developers, you'll collaborate with everyone on building out the team, process, & tech stack as we work on growing both our team, business and technology
Projects We've Tackled in the Past:
Developed workflow solutions from the ground up that allow agents to create and edit property listings for some of the most valuable properties across multiple real estate markets
Developed an interface to allow users to export custom reports for their clients, allowing them to choose what information to include and how to display it
Engineered an advanced search and filter system allowing users to find apartments and analyze the most accurate real-estate dataset in New York
Blazing fast real time analytics on the property market driven by Elastic Search
What You'll Work On:
Develop new client-facing features and interfaces
Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
Mature our existing tech platform to prepare it to scale with our future growth plans
Help us define a healthy and effective development culture that balances the need to move quickly with planning for the future
Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
Take ownership over QA and release cycles of your work as part of a you-build-it-you-run-it practice

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 labor 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 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 accelerating 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

(CEO)

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

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