Senior Software Engineer, React/Rails

ROOFSTOCK

What we do and why we do it

As the leading end-to-end investment platform for single-family rental homes (SFR) our mission is to make real estate investing radically accessible cost effective and simple. We successfully merge our passion for helping investors build wealth through real estate with cutting edge technology that transforms the way they do it.

How it’s going (and growing)

With a talented team of 600+ Roofsters our collaborative can-do culture is what fuels our growth. Early last year we closed on our Series E raising $240 million and have offices in California Texas and New York as well as many remote opportunities. Our growth includes recent acquisitions of Great Jones (full-service property management)  Stessa (financial management software) to empower customers with a seamless way to acquire manage and track their investment properties on one platform Rent Prep (tenant screening and placement service for landlords) and Mynd (property management platform for both Retail and Institutional investors).

Stessa is a product within Roofstock that helps real estate investors run their rental property business. We are seeking an accomplished Senior Full Stack Engineer with extensive expertise in Ruby on Rails and React to lead and mentor our passionate and collaborative team. If you have a proven track record of building robust web applications solving complex technical challenges and thrive in a fast-paced environment we want to hear from you!

Engineering Pod: Financial Management Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with our talented Product Design and Engineering teams to design build and ship user-facing products

• Lead the design development and deployment of high-quality web applications collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Architect and implement innovative features and functionalities to enhance user experience.

• Evaluate and improve the performance durability scalability and security of existing applications

• Leverage A/B Testing Test Driven Development Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and other best practices

• Conduct and facilitate code reviews to maintain high code quality and adherence to standards.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers guiding them in best practices and architectural decisions.

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry best practices driving continuous improvement in development processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Extensive demonstrable experience working with Ruby on Rails and React in a senior or lead role.

• Strong proficiency with database systems (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) and experience in database design.

• Experience building and shipping web applications and supporting them in production.

• Experience consuming producing and designing RESTful web services.

• Familiarity with modern web technologies development technologies (HTML/CSS/ES6) and one or more SPA Framework.

• Proficient with version control systems (e.g. Git).

• Deep knowledge of agile development methodologies and experience in project management.

• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or in a team setting.

• Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools.

• Knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud services.

• Previous experience in a start-up or agile environment.

• Experience with React Native mobile development.

Technologies we like

• React Ruby on Rails Python HTML CSS TypeScript REST

• AWS - EKS SQS RDS Lambdas ECS API Gateway SageMaker and a lot more

• Terraform Elastic Github Actions

Location

This position is classified as remote but our ideal candidate would reside in either Eastern or Pacific Time Zone.

Compensation

$156500 - $243225 annual base salary. The compensation range may be adjusted based on experience and location.

Pay Transparency

Our compensation reflects several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position represents the expected salary for this position.  Ultimately in determining your pay it will be based on several factors including location job-related knowledge skills experience and other job related factors.  Roofstock is a total compensation company the base salary is only part of our total compensation package.

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.

Roofstock is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Roofstock we make all employment decisions including hiring evaluation termination promotional and training opportunities without regard to race religion color sex age national origin ancestry sexual orientation physical handicap mental disability medical condition disability gender or identity or expression pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition marital status height and/or weight.