Staff Software Engineer
owlueSalt Lake City (UT)
Staff Software Engineer
Posted 5 days ago
owlueSalt Lake City (UT)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
About OwlueOwlue is a seed-stage company that already earns revenue. We automate property tax appeals end to end: finding over-assessed homes, valuing them, building the evidence and filing. The filing is the easy part. The hard part is building a case an appeals board will accept, for thousands of homes, in counties that each record and value property differently.
The role:
Most appraisers have never written a line of code. Most engineers have never defended a comp grid. We're looking for someone who has done both. You'll build the engine that does what a good appraiser does, at scale. Every county is its own puzzle. King and Kitsap in Washington look nothing like Miami-Dade and Broward in Florida, and the model has to know the difference.
What you'll do:
- Own county valuation models end to end, from raw county data to the evidence packet a homeowner files
- Select comparable sales the way a reviewer would: same class, close in time and distance, and bracketing the subject on the features that matter
- Measure adjustments from the market instead of assuming them: time trends, condition, view, waterfront, site, basements
- Encode the rules of each jurisdiction: gross adjustment limits, the subject's own recent sale, and the fields a county doesn't record
- Write the grid and the narrative the way a board of equalization expects to read them
- Work alongside the engineer who built our first county models and directly with the founders
What we're looking for:
- Experience as an appraiser or assessor, or in property tax consulting. You know what paired sales analysis is, why bracketing matters, and how a hearing actually goes.
- Production coding experience, comfortable in Python and SQL. You've built models, not just used them.
- When a number looks wrong, you want to know why.
Nice to have:
- Mass appraisal or CAMA experience
- IAAO coursework, USPAP, or a designation (MAI, SRA, CAE)
- Regression or hedonic modeling
What we offer:
- Full-time W2, remote anywhere in the US
- Meaningful early-employee equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible PTOHow to apply Send your resume or LinkedIn profile, along with one paragraph about a valuation you had to defend: what the other side argued and how you held your number.
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