Homeward aims to take the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that buyers and sellers use to get certainty and convenience in the real estate market. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first, real estate start-up that partners with agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move — no matter the market. We offer bundled services across offers, Mortgage, and Title, making buying a home more seamless.
Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer four services -- Buy with Cash, Buy Before You Sell, Sell Before You List, and Backed by Cash, in the 7 states we serve -- Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.
As a remote company, we anchor to our three core values as a collective way to care for each other, represent our work, and reinforce our mission to make homebuying more accessible for all. Those are: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them
About The Opportunity
We're seeking a Back-end Engineer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.
This is a full-time, contract position, not eligible for visa sponsorship.
In This Role You Will:
- Develop, design, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools in agile environment
- Write automated unit and integration tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
- Participate in code reviews to assess overall code quality and flexibility
- Have a good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies, specifically scrum and/or Kanban
- Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with seniors and peers in crafting and implementing the technical vision
- Communicate and work effectively with distributed cross functional teams
- Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur with peers - follow through on details and drive issues to closure
- Work towards continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team
- Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team
What You’ll Bring:
- 3+ years of non-internship professional back-end development experience
- Deep understanding of web development and best practices
- Strong organizational skills and discipline in both following and appropriately challenging conventions
- Skilled with common back-end technologies and patterns such as ReST API development, asynchronous task management, and databases / data management best practices.
- Deep experience in one or more relevant back-end frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI
- Experience working with Python
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Scrappy determination and flexibility - from updating email templates to building complex web apps; you’re eager to learn and help the team succeed.
- A build, test, learn mindset with a bias toward quick, calculated action and a focus on business outcomes
- Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
- Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools
- Possess a high bar when it comes to quality - knowing when to test, what to test, and how to test
THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.
ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.
