Software Engineer

About Orchard

Orchard is radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety, and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard has reimagined the end-to-end experience of buying and selling, from innovative home search tools to find the perfect home to the ability to buy a new home before selling your current one. Orchard customers manage the entire experience through a personalized online dashboard, while also getting the support of best-in-class Orchard real estate agents. 

Headquartered in New York City with teammates across the US, Orchard has 150+ employees. We have financing from top-tier investors including Revolution, Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas and Juxtapose, who have also backed the likes of Pinterest, Airbnb, Shopify and Sweetgreen. We're proud to be recognized by Crain's, Inc. 5000, Glassdoor, Parity.org and Built In on their lists of best places to work.

About the Role

Orchard’s engineering team values clarity, collaboration, and ownership. Our Consumer team builds the systems behind Orchard’s website and the tools that help agents reach new customers. We focus on helping people explore homes, book consultations, and connect with our agents.

Our site serves over 150k unique visitors each month and sees about 700k pageviews. The team partners closely with marketing, product, and design to support new campaigns, track performance, and ensure the site is fast and reliable at scale.

You’ll work on the backend systems that make this possible. That means building and improving APIs, data services, and integrations that support both customers and agents. Your work will touch many parts of the systems our team owns. We build and maintain the services that bring new customers into Orchard, from the public website and intake flows, to scheduling and consultation booking. We also support the tools that help our agents work with those customers, like managing and syncing leads, powering outreach, and maintaining privacy and consent systems that keep customer data safe and compliant.

You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business stakeholders to plan and ship projects. The team is small and moves quickly, so you’ll have real ownership and visibility in your work. We use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude in our daily work, and look for engineers who are curious about how these tools can make development faster and more effective.

This is a full-time hybrid role based in our New York office (2 days per week).

What You'll Do Here

• Build and maintain APIs and backend services that power Orchard’s website and internal tools. Most of our stack uses Qwik on the frontend and Python with Postgres and OpenSearch on the backend, though some other services use Angular and Go.
• Work with product and design to turn ideas into clear, well-scoped projects.
• Debug and improve core services to make them faster and more reliable as we prepare for national growth over the next 12-18 months.
• Ensure our systems can scale smoothly as our user base continues to grow.
• Write clean, tested code that’s easy to understand and maintain.
• Help improve developer workflows, testing, and documentation.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the systems you build.
• Work with a small team that values communication, trust, and practical solutions.

We'd Love to Hear From You if You Have

• At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer focused on backend development.
• Strong skills in Python or other backend languages, with solid knowledge of APIs and databases.
• Experience with tools like AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, or CircleCI is a plus.
• Strong debugging and testing habits, and experience working in shared codebases.
• Regularly use AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude - or are genuinely curious and eager to learn how to use them effectively.
• A low-ego, problem-solving mindset. You take ownership and improve what you touch.
• Interest in a hands-on team where engineers ship quickly and have real impact.

For NYC residents only: The pay range for this position in New York City is $130,000-$150,000/year. The actual base pay offered may vary within the range provided depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Stock options and other incentive pay may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law. Please note that the range provided is applicable only to New York City-based. Base compensation may vary if the work location is outside of New York City.

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