Senior Software Engineer I - 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.

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 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.

• 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, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

• Help shape our engineering culture and frontend team as we grow

• 5+ 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–and experience working with CDNs and optimizing frontend delivery performance

• 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

• Proficiency with 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

• Deep experience with application observability
  

In this role, you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week.

• Experience developing serverless React/Next.js applications

• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, CloudFront, ECR, S3, Route53

• Expertise in backend frameworks (e.g., Rails, Flask/Python, Express/Node)

• Passion for developer experience and tooling

• Contributions to open source or frontend engineering communities

• Design experience

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 $150-$185K base salary + equity + 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.

Compensation Range: $150K - $185K