Join Our Team at RealWork Labs!
Hello there! We're RealWork Labs, a dedicated crew of innovators based in Austin, Texas. We're in the business of helping home service providers build online trust with homeowners, and we're pretty good at it, if we do say so ourselves.
We've built a hyper-local content platform that allows service providers to easily share their work through videos, reviews, and photos tied to their job site location. It's all about quality and trust with us, and we're proud to say our platform has proven its worth by helping our clients establish a strong online presence and build trust with their customers.
RealWork Labs is based 100% in the US and headquartered in Austin, TX.
The Role:
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our small but growing engineering team. A great candidate will be able to demonstrate competency in Full-stack development, and will be at ease maintaining an Express + Mongo backend, working with ORMs and designing RESTful APIs. This role represents an opportunity to heavily influence product, workflow, and fundamental engineering principles on a current, relevant and flexible product as it grows to national scale. The ideal candidate will have a high level of expertise in product development, data engineering, and systems architecture, with a particular focus on B2B solutions.
The Product:
Our platform helps home service businesses attract new customers by capturing and broadcasting photos and videos showcasing their work. Our product is primarily TypeScript and React with a MERN-stack backend. We put an emphasis on keeping the codebase evergreen and focused on best practices while balancing stability and ease of use for the development team.
The Interview Process:
Tired of the 10-round interview gauntlet? So are we. We have a simple, straightforward interview process that takes less than 4 hours of your time - total. Sick of Take-Home Assessments and Algorithm Exercises before you ever get the chance to talk with someone? Us too. You can opt to show off something awesome you've built instead. Let's get to the point, and see what we can build together.
Responsibilities & Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to help define and refine product requirements given input from a cross-functional set of stakeholders
- Ability to convert behavioral and UX specifications into a set of technical requirements and scopes then lead a development team to execute those scopes
- Strong coding experience required - you’ll be hands on with the product. Professional experience building products with TypeScript, React, NodeJS and MongoDB is preferred.
- Experience maintaining and adding new products into AWS or a similar cloud infrastructure is preferred
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs with best practices around error handling and reporting
- Experience writing distributable client applications / SDKs is preferred
- Previous experience building products in a startup environment is preferredBachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred
- Mobile experience in Expo/React Native or fully native apps, a bonus
Our Benefits:
- Startup environment within a stable, industry-leading company
- Competitive salary, bonus structure & equity
- Collaborative, Low-Ego Team
- Generous Health, Dental, Vision, and Parental benefits
- New company provided MacBook Pro
- Hybrid / Remote Flexibility
- Flexible PTO and Work Hours
RealWork Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, and federal law or ordinance.
Top Skills
What We Do
A simple solution for your business, and a revolution in field software.
RealWork Labs is redefining the way home service business interact with their customers and grow their online footprint. We make it easier than ever before for field-based businesses to show off the high-quality work their teams produce every day. Our mobile platform helps hundreds of businesses across the country reach new customers in a few simple steps.
CAPTURE: Take Back Control
Generate real, relevant content from your team members on location. This content demonstrating your quality work will go on to enrich every aspect of your online presence, as well as drive you more new business on places like Google and Facebook, all without the need of expensive black-box services like SEO.
CHECK-IN: Rethink Word of Mouth Marketing.
Checking in to job sites tells Google and other search engines where you’re working, contextualizes your photos and reviews, and gives you organic credit at the local level. So, the next time someone nearby searches for your service, you show up where it matters most.
Take your Google reviews to the next level. Match your Google reviews to those job sites. Give homeowners the confidence your reviews are real and you’re the best service provider for the job. Your business happens out in the field, not around the office. Our platform understands that.
BROADCAST: Social Proof is the future.
Our software will take the photo, the video, the Google review, and advertise it to the friends and neighbors directly around your check-in point.
This social proof material, driven by your staff and their great work, makes you the neighborhood provider of your services. Immediately show others that you service their area and you’re referred by someone they most likely know. Ultimately, this creates an endless cycle of referrals for your business!
Simply put, leave a “digital yard sign” at your jobs driving more work your direction once you’ve left.
Why Work With Us
We're a software company based 100% in the US and headquartered in Austin, TX. As a business culture, we follow First Principle Thinking, which seeks to challenge what we think we know, throw out assumptions, and start with every problem from the ground up to build true solutions.
You’ve never seen anything like this, or what's to come.
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