Senior Software Engineer

| Greater NYC Area
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About Common

Common is the nation’s leading residential brand and operating platform that designs, leases, and manages multifamily properties that appeal to today's renters. Through smart design and tech-enabled property management, Common delivers exceptional experiences to thousands of residents in coliving, microunit, and traditional apartments in cities from coast to coast. Founded in October 2015, we are the preferred choice for renters looking for a stress-free apartment from a trusted brand, and for real estate owners seeking reliable, above-market returns. 

We challenge ourselves every day not just to think about ways to make city living better, but to activate those ideas in meaningful ways. Our team is comprised of real estate professionals, designers, engineers, salespeople, marketers, member service representatives, and so much more. We work collaboratively, value self-startership, and embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality to ensure our work is done and done well. Common sits squarely at the intersection between technology and real estate, working every day to build quality residential solutions that bring positive change to the world’s rental housing crisis.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Common’s team. With over 17,500 units signed and under development and over $110 million in global venture capital investment, Common is expanding it’s reliable, renter-first property operations to 26 cities across the world. 

To follow the latest Common news, get to know our community of residents, and learn about what it’s like to work at Common, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. To see more open roles and hear from Common employees check out our Careers Page.

About the Role

 

Common is seeking a Backend Software Engineer who is excited about building the future of city living and developing a best in class experience for our tenants. You will develop solutions to complex problems in a highly regulated industry through extensible, maintainable, and robsust services. Our current digital product charter is to build software to support the next 100,000 tenants living in Common. We still have work to do and you will have an important impact in developing our core platform.

The ideal candidate is highly technical and has a background developing core services and API’s. You believe clear is better than clever, lack ego, love learning, and have previously worked on a team which delivered high quality and intuitive solutions. You believe in taking calculated risks and bringing data to the conversation. You are excited about rethinking the rental and tenant experience and already have ideas for how to make it better.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop backend features, services, and API’s on our core platform
  • Write well tested maintainable code while continuously delivering value to the business
  • Be responsible for the lifecycle of a project from drafting a technical specification, to releasing in production, and everything in-between
  • Provide peer feedback on pull requests and technical implementations
  • Participate in internal engineering talks, mentorship, interviewing, and stewarding our technical standards
  • Help shepherd and iterate on our engineering culture and values
  • Triage bugs, track software defects, and ensure their timely resolution

Qualifications + Requirements 

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • A degree in computer science is preferred but not required. However, you should have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals.
  • Intermediate or advanced knowledge of at least one object oriented or scripting language
  • Experience designing database schemas and writing raw SQL
  • High emotional intelligence, empathy, self-awareness, and optimism
  • Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Understanding of programming patterns and software development principles
  • Familiarity with domain-driven design
  • Strong communicator, collaborator, and relationship builder 
  • Bonus: Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, or Heroku
What We Offer

Common truly values our employees and wants to do everything to ensure that our employees are not only happy and professionally fulfilled, but also that they have the opportunity to be healthy. Because of this, we are committed to providing a number of affordable and valuable health and wellness benefits for our employees such as:

  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • FSA + HSA options
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Company-paid STD/LTD
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401k plans

Additional benefits such as equity, paid holidays, commuter transit benefits, job training + development opportunities + a great wellness program are also available. And as always, we are regularly evaluating our offerings to ensure employees' needs are being met.

Common is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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