Reporting to the Head of Marketplace Engineering, you will develop high-availability services that enhance the performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency of our marketplace operations. You will collaborate with teams such as Data Science and other technical experts to advance data-driven decision-making. Your role will also involve building and optimizing search algorithms focused on personalization and user experience, while new technologies to maintain high system performance.
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will influence the broader engineering organization through engineering best practices and collaborate with other technical specialists to improve developer experience.
Here’s what you’ll do as part of the team:
- Build and maintain the high-performance services that power Apartment List’s core platform.
- Work in a small team of like-minded software engineers. We expect you to be great, and we expect you to make us all better.
- Write robust backend services in Go and Ruby.
- See your ideas implemented in a product that helps renters find home.
Here are the skills and experience you’ll need to be successful:
- You have at least 4 years of experience in organizations with a solid engineering process and an emphasis on delivering highly scalable and highly performant services.
- You have incredible attention to detail and are able to implement creative and technically sound solutions to product challenges.
- You have experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- You have experience with relational database design and management.
- You tackle problems at all levels of software development, including feature implementation, software build and delivery processes, and developer productivity and velocity improvements.
- You have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals -- whether that comes with a CS degree or not.
- You are a constant learner, always on the lookout for learning and trying new technologies.
- You have experience with Go, Ruby, and Typescript programming languages – or a willingness to learn.
- While not a strict requirement, we would be very excited about experience with search engines (Elastic or Solr) and/or experience working with a data science team.
Here's the Pay Range:
At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US base salary range for this position is:
- Zone 1: $133,000 - $162,000 + bonus + equity
- Zone 2: $123,000 - $150,000 + bonus + equity
- Zone 3: $113,000 - $138,000 + bonus + equity
This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.
We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.
