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Senior Software Engineer, Front-end (LatAm)

Homeward is a new kind of home finance company. We help homebuyers make more competitive cash bids and buy before they sell.

Homeward

Employee count: 201-500

AR, BR + 3 more

About Homeward

Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.

We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them.

About the opportunity

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

This is a full-time, contract position, not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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 working 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 the development process within an agile development team
  • Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team

What you’ll bring

  • 6+ years of non-internship professional front-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 front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JS
  • Deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue (We use React + Redux, with Jest Cypress for testing)
  • Experience working with TypeScript
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Scrappy determination and flexibility - from updating email and CMS 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
  • Deep working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools
  • Possess a high bar when it comes to quality - knowing when to test, what to test, and how to test

Value-Driven Employee Experience

THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

Brazil +/- 0 hours, and 4 other timezones

About Homeward

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It all started with an agent. Our CEO and Founder, Tim Heyl, became a real estate agent in 2009 and quickly rose to be the city's number-one real estate agent by The Austin Business Journal at just 24. His company, The Heyl Group, achieved Inc. 5000 recognition five times and was ranked as a top 25 agent team by The Wall Street Journal Top 1,000. Through this experience, Tim saw a fundamental problem: the real estate process felt broken. He consistently encountered sellers who had to endure months of waiting to find a buyer, often leaving them unable to even make an offer on a new home until their current one sold. We watched our clients navigate the immense stress of months filled with showings, the hassle of moving twice, or even worse, the heartbreak of missing out on their dream home. This wasn't the exciting, joyful experience that moving should be; instead, it was filled with anxiety and rushed decisions that sometimes led to regret.

Unlike many investors and technology companies aiming to displace agents, we at Homeward believe that good agents are an integral part of the solution. This conviction inspired Tim to build Homeward in 2018, with the core goal of empowering agents with a better way to serve their clients. We created a solution designed to remove the uncertainty and stress from buying and selling homes. Our innovative approach, which includes The Homeward Offer, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title, provides a seamless, bundled experience. We enable homebuyers to make more competitive cash bids and even buy their new home before they sell their old one. This model quickly gained traction, and following incredible adoption and positive feedback from buyers, sellers, and agents, prominent firms like Blackstone, Credit Suisse, and Norwest invested hundreds of millions to help us expand our services across the US. We're a fully remote company, headquartered in Austin, TX, with team members all across the United States, dedicated to making homeownership more accessible and less stressful.

Employee benefits

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Home-office stipend for remote employees

Stipend for remote employees to set up their home office.

Health & wellness

Homeward employees have medical, dental, vision, and counseling coverage.

Disability insurance

Provides income replacement if an employee is unable to work due to illness or injury.

Equity

Every full-time member of our team gets an equity grant. We all own a piece of our success.

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