Senior Software Engineer II - Frontend

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.

We’re looking for a seasoned Software Engineer with a passion for the frontend — someone who gets excited about elegant interfaces robust architectures and complex client-side state management. This is a unique opportunity to lead and shape the future of our frontend codebase. You’ll bring deep frontend engineering expertise and apply it to architect scalable modular systems with best-in-class performance testing and maintainability. You'll own our frontend platform foundations including development patterns tooling and build performance enabling the rest of our team to move faster with confidence.

You’ll be the go-to expert on frontend engineering best practices also working closely with design and backend teams on API best practices. This role is ideal for someone who has worked in complex frontend environments and is excited to bring those lessons to a growing ambitious team. If you love geeking out over frontend design code structure and performance you’ll thrive here.

• Lead the design and development of our next-generation frontend architecture

• Implement high-quality user interfaces that are fast beautiful and accessible

• Build complex state management systems that are reliable and easy to understand

• Define and enforce frontend code standards testing practices and validation frameworks

• Translate designs from Figma into modular production-ready code

• Own the frontend development process end-to-end from technical planning through QA and release

• Develop new client-facing features and interfaces

• Partner with designers and backend engineers to create seamless experiences

• Drive improvements in performance maintainability scalability and overall FE code health

• Tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards across our codebase

• Help shape our engineering culture and frontend team as we grow

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on frontend development

• Strong proficiency in Typescript JavaScript (ES6+) HTML5 CSS and modern JS frameworks especially React

• Experience working on large complex single-page applications

• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity scalability separation of concerns

• Expertise with JavaScript build tools (e.g. Webpack Vite) and how frontend code is packaged and delivered

• Experience with modern testing frameworks like Playwright Jest Cypress Mocha or Chai

• Experience working in a full-stack capacity (comfortable contributing to the backend code; experience with Ruby Python or Node)

• Ability to translate visual designs into well-structured frontend code

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  

In this role you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week.

• Contributions to open source or frontend engineering communities

• Expertise in backend frameworks (e.g. Rails Flask/Python Express/Node)

• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2 RDS CloudFront ECR S3 Route53

• Passion for developer experience and tooling

• Deep experience with application observability

• Design experience

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 $170-$200K base salary + equity + benefits

• Flexible 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.

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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