Backend Engineer

🎯 Our Mission

At Pulley, we are on a mission to make construction faster and more affordable. The most pressing challenges of the next decade — housing affordability, climate change, economic stability, and resilient infrastructure — require us to radically and rapidly rebuild the world around us. For new projects, permitting is a key bottleneck and an incredibly broken process — it’s different across thousands of cities, enforces over a million rules, and is still largely untouched by software.

We’re helping construction teams break ground on new projects as quickly as possible through faster permitting. If we can compress permitting times from months to hours, we can not only improve lives for millions of folks in construction, but we can also meaningfully increase the production of new housing, office spaces, businesses small and large, transit and energy infrastructure, and virtually all others types of construction.

👋 About Us

We are a passionate team of engineers building software for the built environment around us. Founded by Charlie Jacobson and Andreas Rotenberg in 2021, our team combines deep experience in real estate and construction with a track record of shipping software loved by millions of customers.

We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, BoxGroup, Fifth Wall, Operator, South Park Commons, Suffolk Construction and leaders from Plaid, Segment, Procore, ServiceTitan, Built, BuildZoom, and eero.

🏠 What We’re Building

We’re building the world’s first software platform for construction permitting — for any project, in any city. Our north star is speed; everything we do is in the service of helping our customers get their permits as fast as possible.

We serve some of the top developers, builders, retailers and architects in the industry to permit new apartment buildings, office space, homes, stores and much more!

🧑‍💻 The Role

We are hiring senior backend engineers to join the Pulley team and help us accelerate our product development. As a backend engineer, you will get to:

• Help construction teams break ground faster

• Work directly with the co-founders on product strategy

• Build relationships with our customers

• Own products and features end to end

• Shape culture and help build the team

• Work with our existing tech stack (TypeScript, GCP, Vercel) & build entirely new systems from scratch

We are looking for someone that will:

• Thrive in ambiguity and define the right problems to solve

• Translate complex customer needs into impactful product solutions

• Pair with design to meticulously craft great experiences

• Architect overall systems while making sensible tradeoffs

• Quickly learn new technologies and frameworks

• Write great software and have fun along the way!