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Homeward

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201 - 500 employees

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Real Estate • Finance • Fintech

Homeward is a real estate company that offers innovative solutions for home buyers and sellers. They provide services that allow clients to make cash offers on new homes before selling their current homes, thus avoiding the traditional contingency-based offers. Homeward enables a more flexible home-buying experience, supporting both home buyers and real estate agents with tools to secure homes in competitive markets by leveraging cash. The company focuses on providing market value offers for sellers and facilitating quick and smooth transitions to new homes for buyers, without sacrificing potential profits in traditional market sales.

📋 Description

• 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 • Leverage AI coding assistants and tools as a natural part of your daily development workflow — using them to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation • Design, build, and maintain AI-powered product features, including integrations with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and AI-driven automation

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ 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 • 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, what, and how to test • Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.) • Production experience with LLM APIs including prompt design and context management • General curiosity and comfort navigating the evolving AI landscape.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate • Computer reimbursement