Who We Are
Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision: empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry.
Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.
What We're Looking For:We are looking for an experienced full-stack or backend engineer to take part in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle. As part of our small team of developers, you'll collaborate with everyone on building out the team, process, & tech stack as we work on growing both our team, business and technology.
Projects We've Tackled in the Past:Developed workflow solutions from the ground up that allow agents to create and edit property listings for some of the most valuable properties across multiple real estate markets.
Developed an interface to allow users to export custom reports for their clients, allowing them to choose what information to include and how to display it.
Engineered an advanced search and filter system allowing users to find apartments and analyze the most accurate real-estate dataset in New York.
Blazing fast real time analytics on the property market driven by Elastic Search
Develop new client-facing features and interfaces
Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
Mature our existing tech platform to prepare it to scale with our future growth plans
Help us define a healthy and effective development culture that balances the need to move quickly with planning for the future.
Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
Take ownership over QA and release cycles of your work as part of a you-build-it-you-run-it practice.
BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience collaborating on software development projects
2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails (our current technology)
Experience with front end development frameworks with preference for React and Backbone
Past experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
Appreciation for (and the ability to create) simple and beautiful UI
Question assumptions, experiment with new technologies, and find the development of a reliable and maintainable system just as exciting as we do
In this role, you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week.
Bonus Points for Any of the Following:Expertise with the following technologies:
Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL
Rails fundamentals: ActiveRecord/ActiveQuery, ActionController, ActionMailer
Delayed job or other message queue implementations
CoffeeScript
AWS services including: EC2, RDS, CloudFront, ECR, S3, and Route53, or PostgreSQL
Implementing RESTful APIs and, in particular, OData-compliant services
Working with omnichannel communication APIs (incl. email, SMS, push notifications, etc.)
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.
The compensation for this position is $170K-$200K base salary + equity + benefits
Benefits:Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays
401K with a company match
Medical, dental, and vision plans
HSA and FSA options
Commuter benefits
Parental leave
Company-wide onsite or offsite each year
Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups
Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.
Compensation Range: $170K - $200K
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What We Do
Built on a state-of-the-art data engine, Perchwell empowers real estate professionals to do their best work, provide differentiated service to their clients, and close more deals.
Backed by Lux Capital, Founders Fund and some of the country’s leading MLSs, Perchwell is scaling its best-in-class solution to become the nation’s most powerful real estate platform for agents, brokerages and MLSs.
Mission: At Perchwell, our goal is to empower real estate professionals to provide best in class service to their clients. Our platform combines the best of clean data and intelligent software into a single platform. Perchwell helps innovative real estate professionals get work done.
Why Work With Us
Perchwellians are eager learners, conscientious collaborators, and supportive teammates who are obsessed with keeping our customers at the heart of everything we do.
If you’re curious, low-ego, outcome oriented, and operate with a bias to action, we’re very interested in working with you.
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