Perennial Systems

Neighborhoods.com is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to lead a small team responsible for improving and maintaining our customer-facing websites. A successful candidate will have the technical experience to execute projects with little support, and has a willingness to analyze problems and suggest solutions for business stakeholders with a variety of demands.\n\nThis role and all interviews will be 100% remote. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.\n\nSalary range: $135,000-$145,000\n\n**What you'll be doing as a Lead Software Engineer:**\n\n- Migrate two existing websites, 55places.com and neighborhoods.com, to WordPress.\n- Ensure that caching is enabled via Cloudflare and that request routing prioritizes traffic to the WordPress sites over all other routes.\n- Improve performance of the new WordPress sites to exceed a target goal of 90 on standard performance tests: [https://web.dev/performance-scoring/](https://web.dev/performance-scoring/)\n- Integrate new websites with analytics, marketing and engagement systems, to allow tracking, acquiring and engaging with customers.\n- Develop new features or enhancements and fix bugs, in a prioritized manner, with the support of the product organization.\n- Communicate with stakeholders, product managers and technical leadership about ongoing efforts and team member activities.\n- Advise team members directly in calls or meetings and via pull requests regarding coding best practices and architectural decisions.\n\n**Requirements:**\n\n- Experience building, deploying, maintaining and ensuring performance of front-end user experiences under a timeline and with a team of developers to satisfy stakeholders.\n- Experience building user experiences in Wordpress with low response times for enterprise organizations.\n- Experience building and deploying back-end services to support front-end systems.\n- Experience leading teams of engineers\n- Expertise in Cloudflare caching and WordPress architecture applied to design, implement and deploy a Production-quality Wordpress solution\n- Technical skills required:\n - Wordpress Development (including Plug-ins, themes and templates)\n - Cloudflare experience implementing caching to improve response times for front-end systems\n - AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda)\n - PHP experience\n - CI/CD pipeline experience (Kubernetes)\n - Structured Database Design and Development (MySQL, etc.)\n - Git (branching strategies, pull requests and clean-up)\n\n**About Neighborhoods.com**\n\nNeighborhoods.com is the parent company of 55places.com, 55places Mortgage and its product namesake: neighborhoods.com. Together, our specialized online real estate marketplaces make a difference in the way people buy and sell their home. Our journey to fulfill our mission has just begun. If you’re looking for meaningful, impactful work that changes people’s lives, and having fun while you do it, we’d love to welcome you to the Neighborhood!\n\nJust some of our many benefits include:\n\n- Health, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance\n- 401k plan + company match\n- Donation matching program\n- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave\n- Company MacBook\n- Home office stipend for you to set up a productive and comfortable workspace at home\n\nEveryone is welcome at Neighborhoods.com. We uphold fair housing standards in everything we do and celebrate our team’s diversity of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or other legally protected status. Diversity of thought, backgrounds, and life experiences creates better business outcomes and positions us for exceptional growth. As the saying goes, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.\n\n