Senior Software Engineer, Back-end (LatAm)

About the opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.

Due to current team needs, we are only accepting candidates based in Latin America. This is intended to be a long-term contract position.

In this role you will:

• 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

What you'll bring:

• 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