Software Engineer 🏘️ Jobs

🏡 What is Dwelling?

Dwelling turns renters into homeowners. 🔑

We've built a new way to get you into that first home - unlucking additional $$$ to put towards the main hurdle of getting into a house - your downpayment. On average, we find our buyers up to $15,000 - often enough to completely cover their downpayment, closing costs, and get into a a home for $0 out of pocket. 🤯

• 💰 So far, we've uncovered over $40 million for prospective buyers. 💰

Our team comes from early roles at Uber, Betterment, Orchard, Redfin, and more. At Dwelling, everyone is an owner, people are open to feedback, and decisions are made through a data-driven logical process.

Our investors have built or funded some of the biggest names in tech including Ramp, SpaceX, Opendoor, Plaid, Wealthfront, Monzo, Notion, Intuit, Roofstock, Tinder, AngelList, Figma, and more. And many of them are still in the trenches building the next wave, as founders of companies like Wave, Ada, Properly, and Ramp.

We’re shaking up two of the largest and least innovative industries in the world - real estate and finance - at the same time. It's no small task, with regulation, compliance, high stakes, and entrenched players around each corner. But overcoming these challenges means we’ll put a generation on a path to owning real estate – historically the key pillar of wealth and financial freedom in the country.

🧑💻 How we work

We're fully remote across North America, and you're able to work from virtually anywhere in the world. Slack, Almanac, Zoom, and email are our main tools of collaboration. When it's safe, we may add local office options in cities with more than one local Dweller.

You'll be responsible for driving projects from concept to completion in an environment of autonomy and creativity. And since we're early, you'll have an opportunity to shape not just our product, but our culture: who you work with, and how we all work together.

🏗 Full Stack Engineer

The evolution of our technology has just begun. As an early member of the team, you’ll have a big voice in all engineering decisions. Right now we’re focused on gathering information on how to solve our customers' problems and the stack is relatively simple: React, Node.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Heroku.

While fundamentally a full-stack position, we're looking for someone who particularly enjoys working with the frontend. We’re currently all-in on building out our MVP, and there's a ton of work to be done in architecting the frontend, and building out beautiful consumer-grade interfaces. That’s where you’ll spend the bulk of your time to start. But we also have our fair share of work in backend land.

Here are some things that you’ll be doing day-to-day:

• Building interfaces that are fast, secure, responsive, and accessible to all types of users
• Helping translate product specs into models/views/controllers, and providing ideas on different ways of structuring a feature
• Investigating problems in the production app and isolating issues to fix
• Providing feedback on a GitHub pull request, or responding to feedback left for you
• Taking ownership of a feature and building out all parts of it – from data modeling to CSS
• Helping define product features by closely collaborating with our co-founders and Head of Product
• Writing automated tests, testing the app on all major browsers/platforms, and making performance optimizations across the stack

✅ About You

We're looking for a product-minded engineer – someone who actively engages with the 'why', and has the thirst for using technologies to leapfrog human problems. Someone with a strong track record of bringing products to life. You should have some experience in a backend framework (like Node, and with the staples of full-stack web development: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

You have some expertise in frontend tools. You take pride in building pixel-perfect UIs quickly, and you love developing interactive elements. You get a kick out of improving rendering performance – slow pages, heavy images, clunky animations make you cringe.

We don't use formal education as a hiring filter. You might have a Computer Science degree or you might not. We care about what you can do and how you do it, not about how you got here. A history of conscientious, thoughtful work speaks volumes.

An early stage startup has to strike a balance between moving fast, and building for the long haul. So we're looking for someone who can minimize scope, prioritize ruthlessly, and implement rigorously.

You take ownership and you see things through. You can take a stand yet commit even when you disagree.

You enjoy learning new things in your field like tinkering with something brand new like Three.js, or building side projects in crypto, but also believe in continuing to master the basics.

You don’t need heavy direction. You enjoy the grey. You like open-ended problems, and thrive in the face of uncertainty – the elements of a startup environment.

✨ Benefits

• Cool t-shirts and swag (bit biased) Also, help all your friends buy homes for less. 👌
• Meaningful, early equity
• Can work remote from anywhere in North America, as long as you have a fast internet connection
• Annual company retreat for personal growth and development
• Small team = lots of autonomy
• Remote-first culture
• Work laptop and monitor
• Unlimited vacation (with a mandatory minimum)
• Budget for training and education

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