Software Engineering

Foundation • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Foundation is hiring great engineers to accelerate our core business, modernize homebuilding, and transform the experience of buying, selling, and owning homes. Foundation is an ex-Opendoor team transforming residential real estate. Foundation’s first product is the native customer experience platform for homebuilders — think “Shopify for Homebuilders.” We work with enterprise-scale homebuilders to deliver a modern digital customer experience, dramatically improving both their customer satisfaction and the productivity of their teams. We’re building for real businesses, real revenue, and real users who don’t have time for fragile tools. This role sits close to product and customers. You’ll ship across the stack, partner with design and go-to-market, and take ownership of meaningful slices of the platform — from early discovery to production hardening.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, shipping production software that real users rely on.
• Product-minded builder. You care about the “why,” not just the “what,” and you optimize for customer outcomes over internal elegance.
• Strong fundamentals + good taste. You write clear, maintainable code, choose sensible abstractions, and know when to keep it simple.
• Self-directed and accountable. You can take a goal and run with it — breaking it down, communicating tradeoffs, and delivering without constant oversight.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You enjoy the early-days energy: vague problems, fast iteration, and learning by building.
• Pragmatic about AI. You’re excited about what’s possible, thoughtful about what’s safe and useful, and eager to apply AI in ways that actually improve workflows.
• Collaborative communicator. You work well with designers, PMs, and non-engineers — you can explain, listen, and align.
• Quality and reliability mindset. You test appropriately, you care about observability, and you leave systems better than you found them.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in SaaS, workflow products, marketplaces, or enterprise-facing systems
• Experience modernizing legacy systems without breaking customers
• Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, permissions/security, and data modeling
• A track record of building internal tools that make teams dramatically more effective

Responsibilities

• Ship product that matters. Build features that improve how builders operate and how buyers experience the home buying journey — fast feedback, frequent releases, and measurable outcomes.
• Own problems end-to-end. Take ambiguous, high-impact problems from “what should we do?” to “it’s live, monitored, and loved.”
• Build calm, composable systems. Create software that’s easy to understand, extend, and operate — the kind of codebase that makes other engineers better.
• Bring AI into real workflows. Use AI where it genuinely helps users (and avoid it where it doesn’t), turning enterprise “forms and friction” into guided, intelligent experiences.
• Work close to customers. Learn how builders think, observe where their tools break down, and build solutions that feel obvious in hindsight.
• Raise the bar. Improve quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful refactors, better primitives, and good defaults.

What This Job Offers

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