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.
About the RoleAs a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the platform team, you’ll architect the next generation of our platform. By designing the foundational platform for our product services, you’ll help us accelerate our expansion across the real estate industry. Using your frontend and architecture expertise, you’ll create modular, performant product services and UI’s that will scale as we integrate with hundreds of client systems into the future.
You will collaborate closely with the VP of Engineering, Joe Kondel, and other senior leaders on Product, Data, and QA.
We are looking for teammates who are excited to work from our SoHo NYC office 3 days a week.
What You’ll Work OnArchitect and develop the next-generation data platform. Design a system for high-throughput data and event-driven services.
Design scalable APIs and services. Implement authentication/authorization solutions as well as core service domains like geospatial and search.
Build and maintain reliable and performant infrastructure. Utilize Kubernetes, Cloud services, and other tools to drive observability best practices.
Work with cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical initiatives. Collaborate with others in Engineering, Product and Data to achieve our goals of building a unified data platform.
10+ years of software development experience, primarily focused on backend services, with comfort working on frontend technologies.
Expertise in distributed systems and designing scalable services on Kubernetes.
Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and message passing architectures (Kafka, Red Panda, gRPC/protobufs).
Advanced backend service and API development skills using modern programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, Ruby).
Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, and separation of concerns.
Experience with frontend technologies, including Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React.
Proven ability to design and implement solutions using various database types (relational, columnar, document, vector).
Skilled at integrating observability and performance monitoring into all aspects of system design.
Ability to work across service, database, and infrastructure boundaries to address design and performance challenges.
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 $200-235K base salary + equity + benefits
BenefitsUnlimited 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: $200K - $235K
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What the Team is Saying
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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