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Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

HouseCanary

HouseCanary

Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Jan 19, 2024
HouseCanary is creating a more efficient real estate marketplace, where its trusted property valuations help consumers and investors enjoy a frictionless experience in buying, financing, and improving their homes. By working directly with institutional investors, HouseCanary already powers more than $200 million in real estate transactions each month. Through partnerships with leading financial institutions, HouseCanary’s ComeHome platform will enable consumers to close on more than $100 billion of real estate transactions this year. HouseCanary recently raised $65M in Series C funding as our team continues our hyper-growth. Founded in 2013, HouseCanary has built its reputation on developing unique analytics for the $30.7 trillion residential real estate market, based on big data and refined through machine learning. By combining this technology with its nationwide brokerage, HouseCanary is uniquely positioned to connect investors and consumers alike to the information that they care most about in an effort to modernize and streamline the home buying and home ownership process.
We are recognized on Built-in's Best Places to Work, including:
Colorado Best Places to Work
Colorado Best Midsize Companies to Work For
Colorado Best Paying Companies
SF Best Midsize Companies to Work For
We are Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces Honoree 2022
Are you ready to take your engineering skills to the next level? Join our exceptional team as a Senior Software Engineer and become an integral part of our cutting-edge development process. We're looking for someone with a solid understanding of Golang. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining our current platform, developing new services, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our applications. With us, you'll be empowered to showcase your expertise, work on exciting projects, and make a significant impact in a dynamic and fast-growing company. Join us today and be part of a team that thrives on innovation and the pursuit of excellence.
Note that we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

What you'll do:

  • Develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance software across the HouseCanary platform
  • Understand the business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
  • Collaborate with frontend engineers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
  • Identify and troubleshoot backend issues; optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability

What you need:

  • 5+ years software engineering experience
  • Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications and microservices
  • Strong knowledge of the Go programming language and its paradigms, constructs, and idioms
  • Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
  • Experience building applications on AWS with EC2, ECS, S3 and RDS
  • Advanced level SQL knowledge
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and deal with shifting priorities
  • Ability to sit/stand at a workstation for up to 8 hours per day

Bonus skills:

  • Knowledge of Python and Django
  • Terraform and infrastructure as code
  • Experience with vulnerability management and best practices for patching CVE’s
  • Previous experience in the real estate, financial services, or similar data-intensive industry

Why work for us:

  • 100% Remote Work (in the United States)
  • 100% Company-paid healthcare premiums
  • Generous PTO
  • 10 Company observed holidays
  • Flexible schedule
  • Paid parental leave
  • Mobile phone stipend
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • AD&D insurance
  • STD insurance
  • LTD insurance
  • Voluntary Life insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (medical, dependent care, commuter)
  • Health Savings Account
  • Pet Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Emergency Travel Assistance
  • Corporate Discounts
  • and more!
NOTE: We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States, however, we are not able to sponsor visas at this time.
We strongly encourage people of color, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. HouseCanary is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).