Job Description

Who We Are

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 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.

What You'll Do Here

• 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.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional experience working as an engineer.


• 2+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, along with either Go, Python (Django), Next.js/Node.js (JavaScript) 


• 3+ years of experience with one of the frontend frameworks: React, Vue.js, Angular, Svelte.


• 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).

Bonus points for

• 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.

The Perks

• Medical, vision, dental, and paternity/maternity benefits.


• 401(k)


• Commuter benefits


• Flexible time off policy


• Catered lunches and snacks


• Corporate gym membership


• Company events: happy hours, bowling, bocce league, etc.

Let’s chat! 

The following compensation information is provided to comply with job posting disclosure requirements in Colorado, New York, Washington, and California.
Base Pay Range: $130,000.00 - $160,000.00, base pay will vary depending on several factors, such as the position, location, qualifications of the individual, market conditions, and other operational business requirements.

HomeLight is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request, and any accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

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