Senior Software Engineer II - Frontend
Who We Are
Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision: empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry.
Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.
What We're Looking For
We’re looking for a seasoned Software Engineer with a passion for the frontend — someone who gets excited about elegant interfaces, robust architectures, and complex client-side state management. This is a unique opportunity to lead and shape the future of our frontend codebase. You’ll bring deep frontend engineering expertise and apply it to architect scalable, modular systems with best-in-class performance, testing, and maintainability. You'll own our frontend platform foundations, including development patterns, tooling, and build performance, enabling the rest of our team to move faster with confidence.
You’ll be the go-to expert on frontend engineering best practices, also working closely with design and backend teams on API best practices. This role is ideal for someone who has worked in complex frontend environments and is excited to bring those lessons to a growing, ambitious team. If you love geeking out over frontend design, code structure, and performance, you’ll thrive here.
What You'll Work On:
Lead the design and development of our next-generation frontend architecture
Implement high-quality user interfaces that are fast, beautiful, and accessible
Build complex state management systems that are reliable and easy to understand
Define and enforce frontend code standards, testing practices, and validation frameworks
Translate designs from Figma into modular, production-ready code
Own the frontend development process end-to-end, from technical planning through QA and release
Develop new client-facing features and interfaces
Partner with designers and backend engineers to create seamless experiences
Drive improvements in performance, maintainability, scalability, and overall FE code health
Tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards across our codebase
Help shape our engineering culture and frontend team as we grow
Required for this Role:
6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on frontend development
Strong proficiency in Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and modern JS frameworks, especially React
Experience working on large, complex single-page applications
Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, separation of concerns
Expertise with JavaScript build tools (e.g. Webpack, Vite) and how frontend code is packaged and delivered
Experience with modern testing frameworks like Playwright, Jest, Cypress, Mocha, or Chai
Experience working in a full-stack capacity (comfortable contributing to the backend code; experience with Ruby, Python, or Node)
Ability to translate visual designs into well-structured frontend code
A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
In this role, you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week.
Bonus Points for Any of the Following:
Contributions to open source or frontend engineering communities
Expertise in backend frameworks (e.g., Rails, Flask/Python, Express/Node)
Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, CloudFront, ECR, S3, Route53
Passion for developer experience and tooling
Deep experience with application observability
Design experience
Salary Range
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.
The compensation for this position is $170-$200K base salary + equity + benefits
Benefits
Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays
401K with a company match
Medical, dental, and vision plans
HSA and FSA options
Commuter benefits
Parental leave
Company-wide onsite or offsite each year
Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups
Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.