Senior Fullstack Engineer

Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next.

Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 175 million visits per year. We’re proud to have been named a 2023 Best Place to Work by BuiltIn SF.

To date, we’ve raised over $178 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. Changing the way the world rents requires passion, bold ideas, and bright minds. Join us in building the future of renting, today!

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to write the code that underpins every single company initiative, critical to every new product, and have a massive impact on technology choices and product direction. You'll write the core services and APIs used across multiple platforms and two major brands (Zumper and Padmapper), and help craft the next generation of apartment finding technology!

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborating cross-functionally with Design, Product Management, Data Science, and other teams to build quality solutions
• Contributing to code reviews and technical design documents to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Developing new & maintaining existing UI in React/Redux
• Sustaining and innovating on Django web servers (an extensive JSON API) used by the website as well as native apps
• Building and refining internal tools and reporting (Fastly, Nomad, Grafana, Sumo Logic, to name a few)
• Helping scale and develop our growing AWS infrastructure

What We're Looking For

• A self-motivated do-er of things and solver of problems
• 4+ years experience in a professional engineering environment
• 3+ years of professional experience in the following tech stack:
• -React/Redux
• -Node.js
• -Javascript/Typescript experience
• -Python
• 2 - 3 years experience with SQL especially on Postgres
• Familiar with the Python libraries Django and SQLAlchemy
• Practiced in query optimization and general performance evaluation/tuning
• Skilled in the use and implementation of RESTful APIs
• Familiar and experienced with asynchronous programming
• Proficient behind a UNIX terminal
• Experienced with building and maintaining third-party API integrations

Bonus Stuff

• AWS (EC2, EMR, S3, SQS, SES, etc)
• Nginx
• Other programming languages (Java, Go, Bash)

What We Value

• Be Resilient: Work hard, while displaying passion, perseverance and commitment
• Continuously Improve: Be intellectually curious, problem solve, and move quickly while producing quality results
• Collaborate: Work well with others, share knowledge and contribute positively to culture and work environment