Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Perchwell is a modern real estate listings platform that empowers real estate professionals with a data-driven and connected platform. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to architect the next generation of our platform and design scalable APIs and services.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, primarily focused on backend services
• Expertise in distributed systems and designing scalable services on Kubernetes
• Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and message passing architectures (Kafka, Red Panda, gRPC/protobufs)
• Advanced backend service and API development skills using modern programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, Ruby)
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, and separation of concerns
• Experience with frontend technologies, including Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React
• Proven ability to design and implement solutions using various database types (relational, columnar, document, vector)
• Skilled at integrating observability and performance monitoring into all aspects of system design
• Ability to work across service, database, and infrastructure boundaries to address design and performance challenges

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