HomeLight

Full Stack Engineer (D2C), San Francisco, CA

HomeLight$120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years as a software engineer
  • 2+ years of production experience with Ruby on Rails
  • 2+ years of experience with React.js or React Native
  • Hands-on experience with AI-powered feature integration
  • Experience with service-oriented architectures
  • Strong relational and non-relational database knowledge
  • Proficient in observability and monitoring systems

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build AI-powered product experiences
  • Design and maintain scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails
  • Develop modern frontend applications using React.js
  • Integrate AI-driven capabilities into business workflows
  • Architect systems combining traditional services with AI components
  • Improve code quality through automation and testing
  • Monitor production systems with monitoring tools

Benefits

  • Opportunities to experiment and prototype in engineering
  • Influence AI implementation across the organization
  • Culture that embeds AI into product strategy and engineering
Full Job Description
Who You Are:

We're looking for a product-minded, AI-native engineer who doesn't just ship features - but builds intelligent systems. AI is not an add-on here; it's embedded into how we design, build, and scale.

If you actively leverage AI to move faster, think in systems, and enjoy operating in ambiguity - this role is for you.

What You'll Do Here
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners to build scalable, AI-powered product experiences.
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant backend services using Ruby on Rails.
  • Build modern, responsive frontend applications using React.js (and React Native where applicable).
  • Integrate AI-driven capabilities into business workflows (LLM-powered features, intelligent automation, semantic search, copilots, or workflow agents).
  • Architect systems that combine traditional service-oriented architecture with AI components (model APIs, orchestration layers, evaluation loops).
  • Continuously improve code quality through refactoring, automated testing, system testing, and deployment automation.
  • Leverage AI development tools responsibly to increase velocity and maintain high-quality standards.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide thoughtful feedback on performance, scalability, security, and maintainability - including AI-generated code.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of business requirements and partner with stakeholders to design thoughtful, scalable solutions.
  • Collaborate across marketing, platform, DevOps, data, product, and analytics teams to ensure engineering decisions align with broader company goals.
  • Use data and experimentation to make informed engineering and product decisions.
  • Monitor production systems, including AI-driven features, using observability and monitoring tools.

What You Bring
  • 2+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
  • 2+ years of production experience with Ruby on Rails.
  • 2+ years of experience with React.js or React Native.
  • Hands-on experience integrating or building AI-powered features into business workflows (e.g., LLM integrations, AI-assisted user experiences, automation pipelines).
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining service-oriented architectures.
  • Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases.
  • Experience navigating ambiguous and complex project requirements with ownership and clarity.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring systems (NewRelic, CloudWatch, Sentry).
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • A product mindset with the ability to balance deterministic software systems and probabilistic AI systems.

Bonus Points For
  • Experience building AI copilots, internal productivity tools, or intelligent automation systems.
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, or AI retrieval patterns.
  • Exposure to Elasticsearch.
  • Experience with React Native.
  • Experience working with Docker and containerized environments.
  • Familiarity with the Amazon AWS ecosystem.
  • Experience working in a small, fast-moving team, ideally at a startup.
  • Contributions to AI-related side projects, prototypes, or open-source initiatives.

Why This Role Is Different
  • AI is embedded in our product strategy and engineering culture.
  • Engineers are encouraged to experiment, prototype, and rethink workflows through intelligent automation.
  • You'll help shape how AI is implemented across the organization - not just consume APIs.

Let's chat!

About HomeLight

HomeLight is a real estate technology company that provides a platform for home buyers and sellers to connect with top real estate agents in their area. The company was founded in 2012 by Drew Uher and has since raised over $500 million in funding. HomeLight's platform uses data and machine learning algorithms to match home buyers and sellers with the best real estate agents for their needs. The company also offers a suite of tools for real estate agents to manage their business, including lead generation, marketing, and transaction management.
Learn more about HomeLight
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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