Software Engineer at Orchard

About Orchard

Orchard is radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety, and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard has reimagined the end-to-end experience of buying and selling, from innovative home search tools to find the perfect home to the ability to buy a new home before selling your current one. Orchard customers manage the entire experience through a personalized online dashboard, while also getting the support of best-in-class Orchard real estate agents.

Headquartered in New York City with teammates across the US, Orchard has 150+ full time employees and 400+ real estate agents (1099). We have financing from top-tier investors including Revolution, Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas and Juxtapose, who have also backed the likes of Pinterest, AirBnb, Shopify and Sweetgreen. We're proud to have been recognized by Crain's, Inc. 5000, Glassdoor, Parity.org and Built In on their lists of best places to work.

About the Role

Orchard’s engineering culture is centered around product empathy and autonomous teams with high feature ownership. Engineers take ownership of feature development end to end. This means we partner with Product Managers and Designers to solve ambiguous business problems and have a high degree of collaborative input before writing code. We strive to keep common infrastructure and dependencies simple (or only as complex as necessary), to keep the coordination costs of infrastructure deployments low, and support lean & nimble product engineering teams. 

This is an exciting opportunity to play an instrumental role in making the home buying and selling experience frictionless for our customers! We’re looking for engineers that are passionate about building delightful tools supporting internal teams and our growing team of Real Estate Agents, designing scalable architecture, and integrating different data sources and services. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience working on a team and maintaining web applications.

This is a full-time role on our Platform team that will report into the Engineering Manager and will be based in New York or commutable to the New York office 2 days per week.

What You'll Do Here

• Build and continuously deploy internal tools for our real estate Transaction Coordinators and Agents. Our stack is a React front-end with Node and Python backends + Postgres.
• Prepare for national growth over the coming 12-18 months, establishing a repeatable market launch strategy and ensuring platform scalability for our growing user base.
• Work with stakeholders to design and architect solutions to our business problems.
• Help maintain API integrations and data pipelines that enable our partnerships.
• Participate in an on call rotation and help improve our monitoring and debugging.

We'd Love to Hear From You if You Have

• At least 2 years of experience working on a team as a software engineer.
• Experience working on web applications with JavaScript and Node/Python preferred.
• Experience working with a team to plan, prioritize, build, and deploy code regularly using CI/CD tools.
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills to work across diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• A low ego and can-do attitude; willingness to admit mistakes and work to remedy them.
• Familiarity with React, AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, CircleCI a plus.

For NYC residents: The pay range for this position in New York City is $130,000-$150,000/year. The actual base pay offered may vary within the range provided depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Stock options and other incentive pay may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law. Please note that the range provided is applicable only to New York City-based applicants.