Founding Engineer (Backend: Node + Typescript)

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About Propify

We are a YCombinator and VC-backed API-tech company. Think "Plaid for Real Estate." We are making it easy for others to create unique products in real estate, a four trillion-dollar market.

About you

• You are intelligent and motivated — always looking to be challenged and to grow

• You love open communication and moving quickly

• You are passionate about developer experience, great system design, code org, readability and visibility

• You understand the power and importance of writing (good) tests

• You love innovation and enabling others to innovate for an industry in need

Experience

• You have informed opinions and experience creating and maintaining REST APIs

• 3+ years writing tests to support success and failure code paths

• Strong familiarity with how distributed systems work and how they differ from centralized systems

Technologies

• Strong NodeJS

• Strong Typescript

• Strong postgres or similar

• Strong AWS

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain REST API consumed by our customers

• Develop outage alerting system

• Create and maintain webhooks within a distributed system

• Responsible for the accuracy of API documentation

• Make constant improvements to query performance metrics

• Communicate changes, ideas, thoughts, failures, and improvements to the team

• Create and maintain 3rd party integrations

• Act as a developer advocate

• Troubleshoot and fix bugs

• Work as a team to support your fellow engineers in problem-solving and best practices

• Write tests for your own code and your teammates’ code when needed

• Perform code reviews

Bonus Points

• You have worked with SOAP APIs before

• You have experience integrating with any of the following systems: Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, MRI, Appfolio, Buildium, RentManager, ResMan

Benefits

• Remote always! (Work from an apartment in Boston or a yurt in Mongolia — as long as you have Internet, work from that place!)

• Healthcare (excellent company-provided healthcare plan with options to choose from).

• 401k (company-sponsored, professionally managed retirement plan).

• $2,500 toward a new computer of your choice

• Workspace budget (get up to $1,500 you can spend on items like chairs, desks, monitors, plants, etc.).