Senior Backend Software Engineer
GreenLite Technologies
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Dec 12, 2024
The Company
Founded in 2022, GreenLite is revolutionizing development in America by streamlining the collaboration between developers, builders, and local regulatory authorities. GreenLite’s software powers its Private Plan Review offering, serving many of the nation’s largest public retailers, developers, and production home builders. By leveraging GreenLite’s technology, its customers save months on each project, significantly accelerating their timelines and staying within budget.
GreenLite is founded by experts in technology, development, and within the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry, and backed by leading venture capital firms. GreenLite is at the forefront of the privatization of construction permitting and plan review, reshaping a multi-hundred billion dollar industry.
GreenLite has raised nearly $40M from the country’s leading venture capital investors, including Craft Ventures, who led GreenLite’s $28.5M Series A. We’re well capitalized to achieve our mission of revolutionizing the plan review and construction permitting process across the country.
At GreenLite, we place value in our in-office culture - both the relationships and collaboration it builds and also the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a *hybrid workplace** putting GreenLite’s goals first while providing balance for our teammates.*
The Team
The engineering team is a tight knit group of passionate individuals driven by a desire to solve real problems for real people. This is a great opportunity to make a tangible impact, be a cultural founder, and grow your career. If you are motivated by solving meaningful problems, learning from talented peers, and growing in a collaborative environment where your work truly matters, this is the team for you.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will be very hands-on and play a crucial role in designing and developing scalable backend services that power our products. You'll take full ownership of features in a fast-paced and evolving environment, working with a modern technology stack.
Founded in 2022, GreenLite is revolutionizing development in America by streamlining the collaboration between developers, builders, and local regulatory authorities. GreenLite’s software powers its Private Plan Review offering, serving many of the nation’s largest public retailers, developers, and production home builders. By leveraging GreenLite’s technology, its customers save months on each project, significantly accelerating their timelines and staying within budget.
GreenLite is founded by experts in technology, development, and within the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry, and backed by leading venture capital firms. GreenLite is at the forefront of the privatization of construction permitting and plan review, reshaping a multi-hundred billion dollar industry.
GreenLite has raised nearly $40M from the country’s leading venture capital investors, including Craft Ventures, who led GreenLite’s $28.5M Series A. We’re well capitalized to achieve our mission of revolutionizing the plan review and construction permitting process across the country.
At GreenLite, we place value in our in-office culture - both the relationships and collaboration it builds and also the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a *hybrid workplace** putting GreenLite’s goals first while providing balance for our teammates.*
The Team
The engineering team is a tight knit group of passionate individuals driven by a desire to solve real problems for real people. This is a great opportunity to make a tangible impact, be a cultural founder, and grow your career. If you are motivated by solving meaningful problems, learning from talented peers, and growing in a collaborative environment where your work truly matters, this is the team for you.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will be very hands-on and play a crucial role in designing and developing scalable backend services that power our products. You'll take full ownership of features in a fast-paced and evolving environment, working with a modern technology stack.
- Design and develop scalable applications
- Orchestrate features and minimize conflicts when working with other senior team members on the same codebase
- Champion architectural discussions and make key technical decisions regarding backend systems and infrastructure
- Actively participate in product and design discussions, contributing your expertise to solve complex problems
- Define, apply, and champion coding standards to ensure our platform is maintainable, reliable, adaptable, secure, testable, and usable
- 5+ years of industry experience in backend software development
- Ability to design new systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Proficient in backend API and SQL databases like Postgres
- Self-starter with the ability to identify potential issues or areas of improvement and take action without needing direction
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate adaptability, and continuously seek to learn and solve new challenges independently