At PLACE, we're building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives.
This is YOUR CHANCE to help power the web experiences used by thousands of real estate professionals and consumers every day. As our Senior Software Engineer, you'll partner with the Engineering Manager, product leaders, and design teams to build and scale high-impact full-stack applications across our ecosystem. You'll play a key role in delivering performant, reliable, and intuitive web solutions that support complex workflows and real-world use cases. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving real user problems, and believe in building scalable full-stack experiences, this is your PLACE. This is a hybrid role based in Bethesda, MD.
Who Develops You: VP, Software Engineering & IT Operations
You are a seasoned full-stack engineer with 5+ years of professional experience building web applications. You're at home in React and Next.js on the front end and Nest.js (Node.js) on the back end, and you've designed, built, and consumed GraphQL APIs in production. You've built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and you understand the value Serverless and Kubernetes bring to how software is developed and deployed.
You have a strong grasp of core web and browser concepts, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and both relational and non-relational data models. When performance problems show up, you know how to diagnose them, and how to prevent them in the first place.
You communicate clearly, in writing and out loud, and you build consensus with peers and keep stakeholders updated. You're positive, solution-oriented, self-motivated, and well organized. You're comfortable in a highly agile, intensely iterative environment, including on a geographically distributed team. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering, or another physical science (or equivalent experience) is expected; a master's is a plus.
Bonus points for: experience with the Spring Framework supporting Java-based services, enterprise or product-focused software company experience, and experience on a remote or globally distributed team.
Salary: $125,000-$150,000/year depending on experience.
We believe people do their best work when they're trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. That's why this role includes a "work from the PLACE you work best" approach: at home, in an office, or on the move (with availability during core EST hours). Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner, building the "PLACE" they are proud to call "my company."
PLACE is an end-to-end technology and business services platform designed to simplify the real estate lifecycle for both consumers and their real estate agents. We partner exclusively with leading real estate teams, regardless of brokerage, in 100+ locations across the United States and Canada. Some of the nation’s top producing real estate teams choose to partner with PLACE because, unlike many of the other tech companies in our industry, we feel cutting-edge proptech should support the hardest working agents instead of eliminating them.
At the forefront of our business is a consumer services model that takes the guesswork out of real estate. Clients of PLACE-powered agents will have access to a one-stop shop that streamlines the traditionally complicated process of buying, selling, maintaining, and investing in properties. Our upcoming products include in-house mortgage brokers, title and escrow services, an insurance portal, and a home improvement network referral system, among other exciting initiatives.
In addition, PLACE’s proprietary technology and business services platform helps agents offload up to 75% of their operations tasks so they can focus on being a key advisor to their clients. PLACE partners value relationships over transactions because we take care of team accounting, bookkeeping, human resources, in-house legal, design and marketing, videography, talent acquisition, business training and coaching. Agents within PLACE-powered teams have access to employee-like benefits that are notoriously unavailable to Realtors, even at the highest production levels.
Our industry is changing and we want to bring the best candidates along for the ride. We are actively recruiting for new PLACE partners, open positions within our headquarters team, and on behalf of existing PLACE partners across the US. If you want to contribute to changing the real estate transaction and homeownership process for the better, join us today.
