Senior Backend Software Engineer

About this role

Join Our Team at RealWork

We’re RealWork, a team of builders and problem-solvers based in Austin, Texas. Our mission is to help home service professionals earn the trust they deserve online.

RealWork is the marketing engine behind thousands of contractors nationwide. We transform their best jobs into SEO-optimized stories, photos, and reviews that drive growth. Through integrations with leading field service platforms, we automate meaningful customer engagement after each job and use job content to help contractor’s online presence better reflect the quality of their work in the field.

RealWork is based 100% in the US and headquartered in Austin, TX.

The Role:

We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our small but growing engineering team. A great candidate will be able to demonstrate competency in Backend development, and will be at ease maintaining a Fastify + Mongo backend, working with ORMs and designing REST/RPC APIs. You’re a communicator who works with stakeholders to refine scope ruthlessly and works with other engineers to maintain a high accountability and quality bar. This role presents an opportunity to be hands-on with cutting-edge technologies while owning the full SDLC on a per-project basis in a fast moving and growing platform. The ideal candidate will have a high level of expertise in product development, data engineering, and systems architecture, with a particular focus on B2B solutions.

The Role of AI:

The elephant in the room. Every team is adopting AI and the conversation is inevitable. Here’s what to expect at RealWork. We view your human ability to solve problems, understand the technical ecosystem, take the lead, make cost/benefit tradeoffs *and communicate with other humans* as the real value markers of top-talent engineers - this was true before AI was a household term. The agent is good at researching, advising and typing. With that in mind we’ve developed a high-throughput, AI assisted,...