Senior Software Engineer Job at HomeLight (San Francisco Bay Area)

Senior Software Engineer

HomeLight

Location:
United States , San Francisco Bay Area

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

We’re building the future of real estate — today. HomeLight is the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey, whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring an on-time, easy close. HomeLight facilitates billions of dollars of real estate on its platform every year. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying for all. Our team breaks barriers every day while staying committed to HomeLight's goals and core values, which is a crucial element to our shared success.

Job Responsibility:

Be a team player, collaborate, and learn from those around you
Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant services
Identify gaps in current codebases and solutions to continually improve coverage on them through refactoring, unit testing, system testing, automating deployment, and operations
Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
Maintain a clear understanding of business requirements and work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and the reasons behind them
Work with teams across the organization, including marketing, platform, devops, data, product, and analytics, to think beyond the technical implications of your design decisions
Make smart engineering and product decisions based on data analysis and collaboration

Requirements:

5+ years of professional experience working as an engineer
2+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails
3+ years of experience with one of the frontend frameworks: React.js, React Native
Hands-on experience integrating or building AI features into business workflows
Experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining service-oriented architecture
Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies
Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements
Demonstrates proficiency in English, with the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
Experience with observability and monitoring systems (NewRelic, Cloudwatch, Sentry)

Nice to have:

Experience with React Native is a plus
Exposure to ElasticSearch
Experience working with Docker
Experience working on a small team, ideally at a startup
Familiarity with the Amazon AWS ecosystem

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 05, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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