Sr Software Engineer

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JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position – No agencies (See notes below)

LOCATION: Remote (TimeZone: BST, CST, EST)

HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $40 – $120 USD / HR

ESTIMATED DURATION: 40Hrs/Week – Long Term, 6-month project

Who they are 

Our client is a real estate syndication platform that helps syndicators streamline equity raising, automate operations, and reach more investors
It is a marketplace between small syndicators and investors
Our goal is to help everyone achieve financial freedom through real estate investing
We have been growing at 80-100% week over week

They believe we will be the most dominant real estate syndication software within 2 years
In the last 1,5 years, we built a solid product, achieved product market fit, and we will raise a seed round in 1-2 months (so yes, we will be venture backed)
We will be a 1BB+ company one day if we execute correctly
 

They are engineering driven (founder was an engineering manager from Silicon Valley), are obsessed with talent density, and want to hire the best engineers possible who are also highly collaborative
 

They are also highly entrepreneurial and personal finance minded
We believe that our employees will one day go on to create their own companies, invest in real estate, and want to grow their wealth and achieve financial independence in their own right
 

What would you do? 

  • Tech spec, implement, and productionalize critical features
  • Improve operational efficiency such as monitoring, metrics, dashboards
  • Help define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
  • Technical leader of large projects from idea to efficient execution with high quality and reliability
  • Effectively communicates with the team and other stakeholders to achieve results
  • Actively participates in team technical discussions
  • Designs, builds, or improves a set of team-owned components or services
    Executes with high quality and reliability on projects requiring deep understanding of team codebase and technologies

Our tech stack

  • Python / flask on the backend
  • React / Redux on the frontend – note you do not need any frontend experience
    The role is backend
  • Amazon Aurora postgres for database
  • S3 for document storage
  • Github for codebase and Heroku for deployment

Who are we looking for?

  • For better or worse, we like folks with deep algorithm skills
    Yes, those are the people who did TopCoder or LeetCode and that’s fine
    Candidates who love solving puzzles
  • We prioritize folks who take the initiative to go out and make something on their own
    If candidates had done a side project, please tell us about it
  • They are orthogonal to each other, you either are highly algorithmic or you have a passion for tinkering with projects, you don’t need both
    This is a full-time, fully remote role
    Ideally, you are located in North America, but we are open to other time zones on a case-by-case basis

Benefits & Perks

  • You own the end to end of a project
  • Competitive pay for all, and substantial equity if you are senior
  • Learning and development resources
  • Flexible work schedule, with an open vacation policy
  • A kind, thoughtful team who cares about your well-being
    We believe that’s a true statement because most of our team is through a seed pool of employees who then refer their previous tech leads / co-workers to join us
  • Learn about real estate! For example, here is a brown bag with an introduction to real estate investing for techies
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