Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
At PLACE, we're building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives. This is YOUR CHANCE to help power the web experiences used by thousands of real estate professionals and consumers every day. As our Senior Software Engineer, you'll partner with the Engineering Manager, product leaders, and design teams to build and scale high-impact full-stack applications across our ecosystem. You'll play a key role in delivering performant, reliable, and intuitive web solutions that support complex workflows and real-world use cases. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving real user problems, and believe in building scalable full-stack experiences, this is your PLACE. This is a hybrid role based in Bethesda, MD.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building web applications
- Proficiency in React and Next.js on the front end
- Proficiency in Nest.js (Node.js) on the back end
- Experience designing, building, and consuming GraphQL APIs in production
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Understanding of Serverless and Kubernetes for software development and deployment
- Strong grasp of core web and browser concepts, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Understanding of both relational and non-relational data models
- Ability to diagnose and prevent performance problems
- Clear communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to build consensus with peers and keep stakeholders updated
- Positive, solution-oriented, self-motivated, and well-organized
- Comfortable in a highly agile, intensely iterative environment, including on a geographically distributed team
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering, or another physical science (or equivalent experience)
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree
- Experience with the Spring Framework supporting Java-based services
- Experience in an enterprise or product-focused software company
- Experience on a remote or globally distributed team
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack features across PLACE products using React and Next.js on the front end and Nest.js on the back end, in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Design, build, and maintain GraphQL APIs and schemas that power front-end and cross-team needs, following best practices for performance, versioning, and schema governance
- Partner with Product Management, UX, Backend, and other stakeholders to scope, iterate on, and deliver new features end-to-end
- Write maintainable, high-quality code and champion team standards through thoughtful code review
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, partnering with DevOps/platform teams on deployment automation, environment management, and release processes
- Apply DevOps principles across the development lifecycle, using Serverless and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns where appropriate
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues across the stack, from browser rendering to API and data-layer bottlenecks
- Learn, collaborate, and teach fellow engineers, because everyone can contribute something new to the team
Benefits
- PTO as needed
- Comprehensive insurance coverage
- 401(k) match
- Stock option grants
- Stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
