Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Built is an AI-powered platform transforming the way real estate is financed, developed, and managed. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Data Platform team in building customer-facing data product experiences, focusing on full-stack application development and collaboration with product teams to enhance user workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of Built’s application-facing data products platform, including product surfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend flows, and reusable patterns
- Build full-stack customer experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and related technologies
- Partner with Product to shape ambiguous ideas into useful customer workflows, challenge low-value requirements, and offer practical alternatives
- Turn data science prototypes, analytics concepts, and platform capabilities into production-grade product experiences
- Bring strong software engineering practices into a data-heavy team through technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns
- Help data engineers take on more software engineering work across frontend, backend, APIs, product decomposition, and production readiness
- Collaborate across Built where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or customer workflows
- Use customer signals, usage data, product feedback, support issues, and discovery learnings to guide engineering decisions
Skills
- Staff-level software engineering experience with a track record of leading ambiguous, customer-facing product initiatives from idea through production
- Strong product judgment, customer intuition, and ability to identify when a workflow or requirement does not create customer value
- Full-stack web application experience, with backend-leaning product engineering depth
- Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern web application architecture
- Experience with Python or demonstrated ability to work effectively in Python-based systems
- Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, reusable application patterns, and production backend systems
- Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with strong instincts for testing, readability, observability, and operational ownership
- Strong technical communication skills, including design docs, architecture discussions, and tradeoff analysis
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to challenge product direction constructively and mentor engineers without condescension
- Bias toward customer value over technology for technology's sake
- Experience building data-heavy product experiences, analytics products, reporting workflows, benchmarking tools, dashboards, or decision-support products
- Experience working with data engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, or teams that productionize data science prototypes
- Experience with AI or agentic product experiences
- Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Materialize, or similar data platform technologies
- Experience in fintech, lending, banking, construction, real estate, compliance-heavy SaaS, or other domains where trust and correctness matter
- Experience with product instrumentation, activation metrics, customer adoption, experimentation, or usage-based product iteration
- Experience mentoring engineers from adjacent disciplines into stronger software engineering practices
Benefits
- Equity
- Top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage
- An unlimited PTO policy
- Uncapped vacation [US ONLY]
- Health, dental & vision insurance
- Robust compensation package, including equity in the form of stock options
- Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development
- 401k with match and expedited vesting [US ONLY]
Company Overview
Built is an AI-powered financial operations platform for the real estate and construction industries. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://getbuilt.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Built has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.