Job Description
### About Mainstay
Mainstay is the leading market intelligence platform purpose-built for buying, managing, and selling homes in the single-family rental industry. As an AI-native company, we turn complex data into clarity that helps the industry move forward with confidence. Founded within Opendoor, Mainstay launched as an independent company in 2024 and recently raised a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.
### About the Role
As a full-stack software engineer, you will have maximum agency, tight feedback loops with customers, and face numerous product challenges that directly translate to business value. You’ll design, build, and ship complex systems and tools that enable teams to execute at scale. Our products are built with Python, TypeScript, and React on AWS.
### Responsibilities
- Contribute to all phases of product development, from ideation and prototyping to implementation and iteration.
- Build and evolve both frontend product experiences and backend services that power them.
- Design reliable and scalable backend services to support new features in production.
- Modernize and automate legacy workflows in the real estate industry.
- Define and ship useful features in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Mentor and support the growth of other engineers on the team.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and operators to identify and solve customer pain points.
### What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years of experience building and delivering production-grade software, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, focusing on backend scalability and system reliability.
- Experience designing, building, and evolving scalable systems and services.
- Clear, concise communicator - essential for our remote, highly collaborative team.
- Proactive and ownership-driven - comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Customer-focused mindset with a drive to build solutions that solve real problems.
- Strong Python background; experience with TypeScript and React is also a plus.