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Freemodel

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Real Estate

Freemodel is a company that specializes in managing and financing home renovation projects to maximize pre-sale value for homeowners. They handle the entire renovation process, including design, management, and funding, allowing properties to sell faster and for more money, with no upfront cost to the homeowner, who pays at closing. The company works closely with local project directors who understand regional preferences and collaborate with real estate agents and homeowners to optimize the home's selling potential. Freemodel showcases their ability to deliver high-quality renovations efficiently, providing a strong return on investment.

11 - 50 employees

🏠 Real Estate

💰 $19.5M Series A on 2023-01

📋 Description

• Own the backend stack • Lead design and implementation of backend services in Go on AWS. • Make core architecture decisions around serverless vs. containerized services, data stores, and APIs. • Keep our system reliable, observable, and cost-efficient. • Provide day-to-day technical leadership to a 4-5 person team. • Help engineers break down work, make tradeoffs, and ship on time. • Run lightweight processes (standups, planning, retros) without heavy bureaucracy. • Work closely with the engineer who splits time between iOS/Flutter and backend. • Ensure our APIs, contracts, and releases are smooth for mobile clients. • Collaborate with product and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and scope. • Encourage and model effective use of AI coding and productivity tools. • Identify where AI can accelerate development, testing, debugging, and documentation. • Own production readiness: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems. • Improve developer experience: CI/CD, infra as code, testing strategies, and tooling. • Help maintain a healthy engineering culture: clear communication, kindness, high standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience building backend services in Go (or strong in a similar language plus a willingness to get deep into Go quickly). • Solid understanding of modern API design, data modeling, and distributed systems basics, specifically GraphQL. • Practical experience deploying and operating systems on AWS. • Comfort with core services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB/RDS, S3, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM). • Experience with serverless patterns is a plus, but strong AWS experience alone is acceptable. • Experience leading a small engineering team or being the de-facto tech lead. • Able to manage priorities, set expectations, and give clear feedback without layers of process. • Actively uses tools like ChatGPT/Claude/Copilot or similar in real work. • Clear written and verbal communication; can explain tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• 11 holidays • Unlimited PTO • Equity options • We also offer compelling healthcare benefits • 401(k) plan with match. • Laptop • Hybrid work environment