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David Careers

Backend Engineer: Senior and Staff

Posted 9 days ago

recruiting from scratchAustin (TX)
Software DevelopersCustom Computer Programming Services

SENIORITY

Lead

SALARY

$95,000 per year

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About the role

Backend Engineer (Senior 1 / Staff) Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Location: Remote (US) or Austin, TX (Hybrid / In-person)
Company Stage of Funding: Seed–Series A (~$7M raised, high-growth startup) Office Type: Hybrid (Austin preferred, remote US allowed)
Salary: $95,000 – $230,000 + Competitive Equity (role-dependent)
Company Description: Our client is a high-growth startup building a modern, AI-powered real estate ERP system designed to unify fragmented data and automate workflows across the real estate lifecycle. The platform enables property investors, vendors, tenants, and internal operations teams to manage complex real estate processes including leasing, sales, accounting, and maintenance coordination in a single system. Backed by ~$7M in seed funding from strong investors, the company is building at the intersection of real estate, enterprise SaaS, and AI-driven workflow automation, targeting a massive legacy industry undergoing digital transformation. With a fast-growing engineering team and strong product demand, this is a high-ownership role where backend engineers directly shape scalable systems used across mission-critical real estate workflows.
What You Will Do:
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend APIs and services powering real estate workflows
  • Write clean, minimal, and highly maintainable backend code
  • Build systems that support sales, leasing, accounting, and maintenance operations
  • Work closely with frontend, product, and design teams to ship end-to-end features
  • Solve complex scalability and concurrency challenges in production systems
  • Optimize backend systems for performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Debug production issues and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Contribute to architectural decisions across backend systems and infrastructure
  • Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
  • Ideal Background5–10+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Senior (5–7 years) or Staff-level (8–10+ years) depending on role fit
  • Strong experience in Java backend development
  • Experience building and scaling systems on AWSStartup experience (Seed–Series A strongly preferred)
  • Experience owning backend systems end-to-end in production environments
  • Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency)
  • Experience debugging and optimizing performance-critical systems
  • PreferredDeep expertise in Java and multi-threaded / concurrent programming
  • Experience with MySQL or relational databases at scale
  • Strong system design and architecture experience
  • Experience building REST APIs or backend services for enterprise applications
  • Exposure to React or full-stack environments (nice to have)
  • Experience in real estate, fintech, or workflow-heavy enterprise SaaS (bonus)
  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems
  • Experience working in high-ownership startup environments
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary: $95,000 – $230,000 (level-dependent)
Equity: Competitive (varies by seniority and impact level)
Remote-first within US or hybrid in AustinHigh-ownership engineering culture with small, tight-knit team Direct impact on a fast-growing AI-powered real estate platform Opportunity to work on complex backend systems at scale Early-stage upside in a seed–Series A company
Why Join: This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing startup modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented industries—real estate. You will be building the backend systems that power critical enterprise workflows including leasing, accounting, and property operations, all within a high-performance engineering environment. If you are a strong backend engineer with deep Java expertise, a startup mindset, and a passion for building scalable systems from the ground up, this role offers significant ownership, technical depth, and impact.

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