Senior Software Engineer 2

Who We Are

Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market  research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision:  empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry.

Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

What We're Looking For:

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 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.

• 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.

• 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:

• 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.

Required for this Role:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience collaborating on software development projects

• 2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails development, with a deep understanding of Rails fundamentals (ActiveRecord, ActiveJob, ActionController, ActionMailer)

• Proficiency with data modeling, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) workflows, and background jobs (e.g., Sidekiq, DelayedJob, or Resque)

• Past experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers

• Strong systems thinking and debugging skills, with a passion for performance, reliability, and maintainability

• Question assumptions, experiment with new technologies, and find the development of a reliable and maintainable system just as exciting as we do

In this role, you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week. 

Bonus Points for Any of the Following:

• Expertise with the following technologies:

  • Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL

  • Delayed job or other message queue implementations

• Implementing RESTful APIs and, in particular, OData-compliant services

• Working with omnichannel communication APIs (incl. email, SMS, push notifications, etc.), particularly Twilio's APIs.

• Experience building and maintaining internal developer tools, APIs, or integrations that improve data quality or platform reliability

• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines from ingestion and transformation to persistence ideally within a monolithic Rails application or a service-oriented architecture

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools (AWS, Docker, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines) to support scalable platform work

Salary Range:

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.

The compensation for this position is $170K-$200K base salary + equity + benefits

Benefits:

• Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays

• 401K with a company match

• Medical, dental, and vision plans

• HSA and FSA options

• Commuter benefits

• Parental leave

• Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

• Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups

Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.