Staff Engineer

Furnished Finder • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Furnished Finder is the leading two-sided marketplace for monthly furnished rentals, connecting landlords with renters seeking stays of 30 days or more. Our diverse tenant base includes traveling medical professionals, corporate contractors, digital nomads, relocating families, academics, and more. With a growing network of 300,000+ listings and over 240,000 landlords nationwide, Furnished Finder helps renters find real homes in real communities—without booking fees or hidden costs. In 2025, Newsweek named Furnished Finder one of America’s Best Online Platforms, ranking us #1 in the Real Estate category. Founded in 2014, we continue to redefine flexible housing for the modern renter.
When you join Furnished Finder, you’re joining a leadership team with 70+ years of combined experience across real estate and travel. As we enter our next phase of growth, we’re looking for curious, motivated self-starters who are excited to learn, build, and grow alongside an industry-leading team. With roles based in Austin, TX (our HQ) and remote opportunities available, we’re growing quickly—and we’d love to meet you.
As a Staff Engineer, you will be a key player in the development and enhancement of our core platform services that power our entire digital marketplace from ecommerce to discovery to identity to communications and beyond. You will work with a team of talented engineers to build scalable and reliable solutions, ensuring a seamless experience for our users. This role requires an experienced engineer who has worked in multiple technology stacks in support of a service-oriented and data driven platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong background in building and scaling front-end systems and full-stack applications.
• Deep expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, or Angular); familiarity with Next.js and Node.js is a plus.
• Proven experience owning and leading frontend platform decisions end-to-end, from architecture and tooling choices to delivery and long-term maintenance.
• Experience with A/B experiments, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts in the context of frontend delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work creatively in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, design, and product teams.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of high-quality software across the full stack, with a primary focus on front-end architecture and user-facing experiences.
• Define and drive the architectural vision for our front-end systems, including component architecture, design systems, and state management patterns, while contributing to broader platform decisions around APIs and cloud infrastructure.
• Work closely with product managers and designers to translate requirements into intuitive, performant, and accessible user experiences.
• Advocate for continuous improvements in code quality, testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end), and development processes across the stack.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting best practices in front-end development and full-stack architecture.
• Stay current on the latest trends in front-end and full-stack development, integrating them into our projects as appropriate.
• Oversee the monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance of production systems, with particular attention to frontend performance and client-side reliability.

What This Job Offers

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