Senior Software Engineer, Back-end (LatAm)

About the opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.

Due to current team needs, we are only accepting candidates based in Latin America. This is intended to be a long-term contract position.

In this role you will:

• Develop, design, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools in agile environment
• Write automated unit and integration tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
• Participate in code reviews to assess overall code quality and flexibility
• Have a good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies, specifically scrum and/or Kanban
• Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with peers in crafting and implementing the technical vision
• Communicate and work effectively with distributed cross functional teams
• Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur with peers - follow through on details and drive issues to closure
• Work towards continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team
• Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team
• Leverage AI coding assistants and tools to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation
• Design, build, and maintain AI-powered product features, including with LLM API integrations, RAG pipelines, and AI-driven automation

What you’ll bring:

• 6+ years of non-internship, professional back-end development experience
• Deep understanding of web development and best practices
• Strong organizational skills and discipline in both following and appropriately challenging conventions
• Scrappy determination and flexibility (from updating email templates to building complex web apps)
• A build, test, learn mindset, with a bias toward quick, calculated action and a focus on business outcomes
• Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
• Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.), and the judgment to review and verify what they produce.
• You read code as well as you write it. You regularly review others’ pull requests and can spot bugs, edge cases, performance problems and design issues in code you didn’t write.
• Experience with background jobs and asynchronous processing (e.g., Celery) designed to be safe to retry.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and partner data: auth, retries, rate limits, webhooks, and validating data you don’t control.
• Clear written and spoken English; comfortable talking through your reasoning with a US-based team.

Nice-to-have:

• Production experience with LLM APIs, including prompt design and context management
• Familiarity with hexagonal / ports-and-adapters architecture or domain-driven design
• Real estate, mortgage or prop-tech experience

Compensation:

• Competitive hourly rate
• Computer reimbursement