Staff Software Engineer at Permitflow

🚀 About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is building AI agents for the $1.6T construction industry. We’re creating the leading pre-construction platform, starting with the $12B permitting market.

Our platform automates the slow, manual permitting process for builders, handling everything from jurisdiction research to application preparation, submission, and real-time tracking. By turning fragmented regulations and workflows into structured, intelligent systems, we help contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We've raised over $36.5M with Kleiner Perkins leading our Series A, with participation from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures. Our backers include founders and executives from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, Uber, and more.

We are a team of architects, engineers, permitting experts, and product builders who know the pain of pre-construction firsthand and are committed to solving it. Demand is growing faster than we can keep up, and we’re looking for top talent to help us scale.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

✅ What You’ll Do:

• Full Stack Development: Architect, design, and implement robust and scalable full-stack solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, understand user needs, and translate them into technical solutions.

• Front End Development: Develop responsive and intuitive user interfaces using React and Typescript. Ensure a seamless and visually appealing user experience across various devices and platforms.

• Back End Development: Build and optimize server-side components using Node.js. Work with databases, particularly Postgres, to design and implement efficient data storage and retrieval solutions.

• System Architecture: Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the construction management platform. Make high-level decisions regarding technology choices, scalability, and system integrations.

• Leadership and Mentorship: Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and contribute to the professional growth of the development team.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical solutions and business objectives. Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Continuous Learning: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in full-stack development. Evaluate and recommend new tools and frameworks to enhance the platform's capabilities.

🙌 Qualifications & Fit:

• Extensive experience in professional fullstack development, ideally most of which you’ve spent in startups

• Extensive experience working within our tech stack, which is listed above

• You sweat the important details and strive for excellence in your work

• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects

• A record of identifying valuable projects, communicating the strategy for them, and executing on them autonomously

• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building is a polished product meets their needs

• Habit of introspection and understanding what’s helped you be successful in the past

💙 Benefits:

• 📈 Equity packages

• 💰 Competitive Salary

• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage

• 💻 Company issued laptop

• 🍽️ Lunch & Dinner provided via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen

• 🚍 Commuter benefits

• 🎤 Team building events

• 🌴 Unlimited PTO

✏️ Interview Process:

• 20 minute recruiter screen

• Take-home coding assessment (2-3 hours)

• 1 hour live-coding interview

• 1 hour system design interview

• Culture interview with Hiring Manager

• Reference checks

• Offer!