Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

What we do and why we do it

As the leading end-to-end investment platform for single-family rental homes (SFR), our mission is to reinvent the rental housing ecosystem for the benefit of all. We successfully merge our passion for helping investors build wealth through real estate with cutting edge technology that transforms the way they do it.

How it’s going (and growing)

With a talented team of 750+ Roofsters, our collaborative, can-do culture is what fuels our growth. In 2022, we closed on our Series E, raising $240 million, and have offices in the Bay Area and New York City. Our growth includes recent acquisitions of Stessa (financial and asset management software), RentPrep (tenant screening and placement service for landlords), and Mynd (property management platform for both Retail and Institutional investors). In 2025, Roofstock took an ownership stake in Casago (short-term rental management services), expanding our platform to support both long-term and short-term rental investment services.

Join us!

About the Role

Mynd is a tech-enabled property management and real estate investment business division serving more than 18,000 homes across 26 markets. We help individual and institutional investors buy, renovate, market, manage and sell single-family homes. And we help our residents find safe, spacious, and low-maintenance homes from which to launch their lives.

We bring together talent and expertise from real estate and tech to build a proprietary platform that is unmatched in our industry. Powerful workflows, AI tools and intuitive consumer apps help our teams deliver great service, make life easy for residents, and give investors powerful portfolio insights at their fingertips. We’re making it possible for a new generation of Americans to dream their way - decoupling the homes they live in from the homes they invest in.

We're looking for a talented Product Engineer for Property Services team who is passionate about a deep understanding of the product, stakeholder needs and focuses on the business value to produce the best quality engineering solutions. If you have a proven track record of building robust web applications, solving complex technical challenges, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, SMEs, designers, and engineers to build and ship user-facing features efficiently.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Java/Kotlin, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and compliance.
• Architect and optimize financial transaction processing workflows, including payment processing, bank integrations, and fraud detection mechanisms.
• Define and implement best practices for backend architecture, focusing on durability, scalability, and security, particularly in distributed systems/services.
• Design and implement gRPC and REST APIs to support web applications and integrations, ensuring robust, well-documented, and efficient data flow.
• Strengthen application security through best practices in authentication, authorization, and data protection, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Improve application performance, monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to maintain high system availability and responsiveness.
• Contribute to backend infrastructure development and cloud-based services (AWS).
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry best practices, driving continuous improvement in development processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development with Java/Kotlin in a senior or lead role.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong proficiency in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience with database design and query optimization.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services.
• Proficiency in scaling backend systems, optimizing performance, and implementing caching strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS (RDS, SQS, ECS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Strong understanding of observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices.
• Understanding of security best practices, sensitive data protection, including authentication, authorization, and compliance with industry standards such as SOC.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design teams.

• Java/Kotlin, gRPC, SOA/microservices, Liquibase, Hibernate
• AWS ECS Fargate, AWS SNS/SQS, AWS Aurora MySQL
• DDD, TDD, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD
• Docker, Terraform, Datadog, Github Actions, Pagerduty
• AngularJS, Python, HTML, CSS, TypeScript

Conditions

• You speak English fluently
• You are an independent engineer (not a part of the agency) and able to work ~40 hours/week Monday-Friday and be available 9am-12pm Pacific Time Zone
• You're committed to being available until noon Pacific time zone (not particularly working - answering in Slack and participating in occasional meetings)
• Camera and microphone are required during the interview, once hired during team meetings/discussions/etc
• Remote work with a distributed team of engineers located across the Americas and Eurasia
• Must be eligible to use Deel, the platform we use to manage contracts and weekly payments.

Location

Remote, International; open to Argentina and Portugal