
Associate Engineer, Neighborhood Alerts
Location: Remote, Raleigh or Charlotte, NC
We’re looking for an Associate Full-Stack Engineer to join the Neighborhood Alerts team—a Home Solutions business that delivers timely, locally relevant alerts to homeowners. This role is a great fit for an engineer who is excited to build expertise in backend development while also growing into full-stack contributions, helping to build reliable systems that utilize cutting-edge cloud technologies.
You’ll work on scaling and optimizing a system that leverages Ruby on Rails, Go, AWS, GCP, and third-party platforms like Iterable, to ensure fast, accurate, and personalized delivery of alerts. As part of a cross-functional team, you’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business colleagues to build features that reach over 8 million monthly active homeowners, and drive meaningful growth for the business.
Your Day-to-Day
- Develop and maintain backend services for Neighborhood Alerts using Ruby on Rails, Go, and cloud services such as AWS EKS and GCP Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Monitor and orchestrate event-driven data pipelines that help deliver timely alerts to homeowners.
- Utilize a variety of database technologies (DynamoDB, BigQuery, Postgres, Redis) to deliver product features and enable business analytics.
- Build and maintain email templates, enabling personalization and ensuring compatibility with a variety of email clients.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to help introduce new features and tackle challenging problems.
- Write clean, well-documented, and testable code, and contribute to continuous improvement in our engineering practices.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and brainstorm sessions.
- Investigate, identify, and resolve high-impact bugs to help improve overall quality of the product.
About You
- 1-2 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend or full-stack roles.
- Strong working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Go, as well as experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Interest in flexing into frontend/full-stack development and strong working knowledge of HTML/CSS.
- Problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to learn new technologies.
While we’re looking for some specific experiences and skillsets, nothing is more important than a strong curiosity and a passion for learning and creating.
About Us
Launched in Fall 2017, Home Solutions targets the rapidly digitizing home services vertical and matches homeowners with the right service provider to meet their needs. Our purpose is simple: Simplify Home Services. We aspire to transform the way homeowners and end-service providers engage. Through our media, alerts, and brand solutions, Home Solutions has a proprietary audience of 47M+ homeowners and prime real estate in search engines. We are on a mission to make homeownership easier by creating high quality content that pairs consumers with providers in a range of related categories.
Home Solutions was incubated within Three Ships, a growth equity firm that launches and invests in digital companies, builds great leadership teams, and helps them rapidly scale. The Three Ships portfolio includes several businesses and over 50+ websites that help consumers navigate choices through online marketplaces. Headquartered in Raleigh and Charlotte, we are always looking to find the right people to help us continue to grow this business and place a high value on teammates with a growth mindset and a "get after it" mentality.
Why You Should Join Us
- Results: Home Solutions is the fastest-growing marketplace company in the home services category.
- Opportunity: Home services is a $600 billion market that largely still operates like it’s 1999. During the next decade, we anticipate a huge digital transformation in the category, and marketplace companies will lead the way.
- Ownership & Impact: We seek talented people with the desire to own and run parts of the business that drive company performance. Leadership is fully aligned and incentivized around our growth-focused mission.
- Exposure & Learning: You will have a front-row seat in growing a business. Your teammates have built and sold companies, managed 100s of employees, and run campaigns with Fortune 500 brands. The opportunity to build new skills and learn from smart people is endless.
- Career Growth: There is no cap on growth, promotions, or the opportunity to own and put your stamp on important projects. Prove your value and you will be rewarded accordingly.
- Stability: We are privately owned, have no debt, and have significant cash to invest.
- Fun: The team has a high bar for excellence, but also a real interest in each other and making work fun.
The Package
We offer a competitive base salary based on experience. As a full-time team member at Home Solutions, you'll also enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including health, medical, and vision insurance, a 401(k) match, short-term disability coverage, and a cell phone reimbursement. Additionally, we support your well-being and growth with flexible time off, a bi-annual $500 Relax & Recharge bonus, a learning and development stipend, and a Charity Match program to give back to causes you care about.
EEOC Statement
All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other discriminatory factors. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this role. All offers are subject to a background check.
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