Backend Engineer (Remote)

🚀 About PermitFlow

PermitFlow’s mission is to streamline and simplify construction permitting in the $1.6 trillion United States construction market. Our software reduces time to permit, supporting permitting end-to-end including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring.

We’ve raised a $31m Series A led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, Altos Ventures, and the founders and executives from Zillow, PlanGrid, Thumbtack, Bluebeam, Uber, Procore, and more.

Our team consists of architects, structural engineers, permitting experts, and workflow software specialists, all who have personally experienced the pain of permitting.

📌About the Team

We have a lean but mighty engineering team. We’ve done a lot with a little, but there’s much more work to be done to continue our fast-paced growth and we want you to be a part of that growth. You’ll help us get there by owning end-to-end projects, talking with customers, and ultimately supporting the growth of PermitFlow.

✅ What You’ll Do:

You'll work alongside the CTO and engineering team to develop the first construction permit application and management platform for builders. Our current team consists of engineers from Uber, Amazon, NerdWallet, OnDeck, Harvard, Stanford, and more. We are background and experience agnostic, and we encourage anyone to apply if they are passionate about joining a small team and working to solve a real-world pain point.

• Working directly with the founders and users to define the product and engineering roadmap.

• Owning and shipping features from inception to implementation.

• Developing, iterating, and refining extensible and flexible workflow tooling for permitting.

• Build exceptional user experiences that allow users to easily apply, track, and manage their permitting.

• Mentoring engineers and others around you to build a culture of technical excellence.

Our Tech Stack:

• Typescript

• Node.js

• Postgres

🙌 Qualifications & Fit:

• Strong experience in professional fullstack development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups

• Significant experience working within our tech stack, which is listed above

• You sweat the important details and strive for excellence in your work

• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects

• A record of identifying valuable projects, communicating the strategy for them, and executing on them autonomously

• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building is a polished product meets their needs

• Habit of introspection and understanding what’s helped you be successful in the past

💙 Benefits:

• 📈 Equity packages

• 💰 Competitive Salary

• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage

• 💻 Company issued laptop.

• 🎧 Home office & equipment stipend

• 🍽️ Lunch & Dinner provided via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen

• 🚍 Commuter benefits

• 🎤 Team building events

• 🌴 Unlimited PTO

✏️ Interview Process:

• 20 minute recruiter screen

• Take-home coding assessment (2-3 hours)

• 1 hour live-coding session with one of our engineers

• Final interview with Sam, our CTO and co-founder

• Reference checks

• Offer!