About HomeLight
HomeLight’s vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying. We provide software and services to home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents including HomeLight Agent Matching, the investor matching platform Simple Sale, HomeLight Home Loans, and HomeLight Closing Services. Each year, HomeLight helps hundreds of thousands of clients connect with top real estate agents, and it facilitates billions of dollars of real estate on its platform.
What You’ll DoBe a collaborative team player — learn from and contribute to your peers.
Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, efficient services to improve operational efficiency.
Identify and address areas for improvement in existing codebases through:
Refactoring
Unit/system testing
Automated deployment and operations
Provide constructive feedback on code from fellow engineers, ensuring: Style guideline adherence, Code accuracy, Testability and efficiency
Understand business requirements and collaborate closely with stakeholders (e.g., loan officers, real estate agents).
Work with cross-functional teams (marketing, platform, DevOps, data, product, analytics) to ensure technical decisions support broader business goals.
Make engineering and product decisions based on data and collaboration to drive operational efficiency.
1–3 years of professional engineering experience
At least 1 year of experience with Ruby on Rails
Experience with ReactJS
Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor)
Exposure to prompt engineering
Hands-on experience with service-oriented architecture (build, deploy, operate, maintain)
Strong background in relational and non-relational databases
Comfortable working on ambiguous and complex project requirements
Fluent in English, with strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience using observability and monitoring tools (e.g., NewRelic, CloudWatch, Sentry)
Experience with React Native
Exposure to Elasticsearch
Experience working with Docker
Background in startups or small engineering teams
Familiarity with the Amazon AWS ecosystem
The Perks
- Medical, Vision, Dental
- Parental Leave Benefits
- 401(k)
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Time-Off
- Volunteer Time-Off
- Catered Lunches and Fully-Stocked Kitchen Onsite
- Corporate Gym Membership
- Company Events: Annual Retreat, Happy Hours, & More!
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What We Do
Hi, we’re HomeLight.
We’re building the future of real estate — today.
HomeLight is the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform.
HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.
Why Work With Us
You'll be part of a tightly-knit team that is free of big-company bureaucracy, you can help make products that will affect people in the real world. You'll get to help shape product direction, own outcomes and learn from phenomenally talented colleagues.
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