Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer Groma is blending real estate and technology to unlock a new real estate asset class while making it easier for everyone, from institutional investors to the residents in our buildings, to participate in ownership. Our property technology platform uses AI to bring new efficiencies to the small unit count multifamily sector, enabling us to efficiently acquire, upgrade, and operate these 2-20 unit multifamily buildings and bring institutional performance to this massive but historically overlooked sector. Our investor technology platform makes owning these assets accessible to a broad array of investors, with bespoke vehicles available to institutional and family office investors and our flagship vehicle, the blockchain-powered GromaREIT, available to everyone, with a special focus on enabling ownership for the residents in our buildings. Visit www.groma.com to learn more about us. About the Role This senior-level role will join a small team of software engineers that build the digital infrastructure and products that power the company. These primarily include: Tools that are designed to make managing our large and growing real estate portfolio highly efficient. These are tools that we use to address the tactical challenges that arise from managing distributed real estate assets as efficiently as possible while still ensuring the best possible resident experience. We use many standard technology solutions, but also smart home technology and AI to solve and optimize many of our resident and maintenance tasks. Products that enable investors to initiate and manage their investments into Groma’s real estate funds. A primary goal of Groma is to make real estate work better for everyone. This means not only owning and managing it well, but also expanding ownership opportunities, with audiences ranging from institutional investors to the residents in our buildings. Infrastructure to express Groma’s property assets and investor share holdings in a blockchain environment. Blockchain is a powerful tool for us to increase transparency, investor access, and, over time, unlock new functionality to enable our holders to get the most possible value out of owning real estate. The most important traits for someone joining the team will be: Startup interest. We’re an early stage company and still have a lot left to figure out. We don’t yet have all of the answers, and you’ll be a part of finding them. Product mindset. As a startup, we need to be fast to identify and solve problems across the business. We expect engineers to be comfortable working directly with stakeholders throughout the business to understand their needs and build pragmatic solutions to them. Technical breadth. As a small team, it’s highly valuable for each member to be able to operate across the entirety of our technology stack. This means being willing and able to work on backend and frontend development, our blockchain infrastructure, or occasionally even some spreadsheet hacking. Desire to move fast. As an engineering team, we care about building reliable, secure, and easily-maintainable systems, but also strive to move quickly and are willing to make compromises where necessary to support the business. The core technologies that the team uses are: Languages: Python, Javascript, Solidity Frameworks: Django, React Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Postgres, Ethereum, Vercel This is a role for someone that can quickly ramp up to execute independently and effectively across the range of technologies described above. You do not need to be an expert in everything mentioned, but should be very comfortable building web applications in Django or a comparable framework and at least interested in learning the rest. About our Culture At Groma, we’re looking to build something big and are on a fast growth trajectory. While a healthy work-life balance is important to our team, we want to be upfront that there may be times when we expect com...