Senior Software Engineer

Wise Pelican • Scottsdale, AZ

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Wise Pelican is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help grow its Development team. This is a full-time, onsite role in Scottsdale, Arizona, reporting to the Head of Engineering. The engineer will turn product and AI ideas—particularly those related to Wise Pelican’s real estate marketing product—into useful, production-ready solutions that improve customer work and company outcomes. The role combines hands-on software development, customer engagement, product thinking, and ownership of projects from discovery through adoption and ongoing improvement.

The Senior Software Engineer will work with the Head of Engineering, cross-functional leaders, customers, and internal teams to identify valuable opportunities, clarify ambiguous problems, and deliver full-stack applications and AI-supported workflows. The role also establishes lightweight practices for scoping, deployment, documentation, feedback, and measuring outcomes. Over time, the engineer will own a portfolio of customer-facing and internal initiatives, develop reusable implementation patterns, and help shape and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering foundation and evidence of having shipped working software beyond coursework, tutorials, or prototypes that have never served a paying user.
• Ability to build production applications with Python, TypeScript, and React.
• Understanding of full-stack development fundamentals, including APIs, databases, testing, debugging, deployment, authentication, and cloud-based systems.
• Ability to work through technical problems independently and recognize when to seek context, support, or a second opinion.
• Ability to communicate with customers, executives, developers, and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and changing expectations before they become surprises.
• Interest in understanding how a business works and connecting technical decisions to revenue, adoption, efficiency, risk, and customer outcomes.
• Comfort starting with unclear problems, asking direct questions, organizing work, and creating a reasonable path forward.
• Thoughtful use of numerous AI development tools.
• Motivation to build and deliver solutions rather than only recommend what others should build.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or deploying production systems involving LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience working directly with customers through implementation, solutions engineering, technical consulting, product development, or a similar role.
• Experience at an early-stage or bootstrapped company with limited process, specialized teams, or resources.
• Experience with marketing automation, CRMs, HubSpot, real estate technology, workflow automation, or data-heavy SaaS products.
• A demonstrable project in which the candidate identified a problem, built and launched a solution, and assessed whether it worked.

Responsibilities

• Identify product and AI opportunities connected to revenue, customer success, efficiency, or long-term company value.
• Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand workflows, identify underlying problems, and translate business needs into technical plans.
• Build full-stack solutions with Python, TypeScript, and React, including product features, internal tools, integrations, data workflows, and AI-supported applications.
• Own projects from discovery and prototyping through testing, production deployment, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Define success measures before development and evaluate whether completed solutions achieve intended business or customer outcomes.
• Make practical decisions about scope, speed, maintainability, security, and technical quality.
• Turn successful customer-specific or internal solutions into reusable components, documented playbooks, and scalable product capabilities.
• Bring lessons from customers and real-world deployments into the broader product roadmap.
• Keep stakeholders informed, surface risks early, and provide enough structure to keep important work on track across departments.
• Learn Wise Pelican’s product, technical architecture, business model, customer workflows, and current AI initiatives.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering to define the initial purpose, priorities, success measures, and working model for the Senior Software Development function.
• Review product and AI ideas and prioritize projects with a clear path to revenue, user success, or operational leverage.
• Take a prototype, stalled initiative, or high-priority business problem through to reliable production use.
• Establish lightweight standards for project discovery, technical scoping, deployment, documentation, feedback, and outcome measurement.
• Own a portfolio of internal and customer-facing initiatives from business problem through measurable result.
• Build reusable tools, integrations, and implementation patterns that make subsequent projects faster and more valuable.
• Help decide whether customer needs should remain tailored solutions or become part of the core product.
• Help shape and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function, including its goals, processes, responsibilities, and future hiring needs.

Benefits

• Major medical insurance.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Three weeks of paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and seven company holidays per year.
• Professional development stipends.
• 401(k) at a tenure milestone.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed