[Remote] Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clever Real Estate is a real estate technology company focused on improving how people buy, sell, and manage real estate. The Staff Full Stack Software Engineer will own customer and operational problems end to end, building reliable solutions across Python/Django and React/TypeScript while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and using AI tools throughout the engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Own full-stack product and operational initiatives from problem framing through implementation, launch, and production validation
• Turn ambiguous requirements into practical plans, milestones, and shippable increments
• Build and maintain reliable applications using Django and TypeScript
• Make sound decisions about architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, testing, security, and production operations
• Use AI tools throughout investigation, development, testing, debugging, and review to deliver materially better outcomes
• Validate AI-assisted work rigorously and recognize when direct engineering judgment is required
• Work directly with Product, Design, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand the underlying problem and define successful outcomes
• Communicate progress, decisions, risks, and blockers proactively
• Diagnose production issues, restore service responsibly, and drive follow-up improvements that reduce recurrence
• Improve the systems, tooling, and engineering practices that help the broader team move faster and produce better work

Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development experience with Python and Django
• Experience building user-facing applications with React and TypeScript
• Demonstrated ownership of meaningful production outcomes
• Experience designing and integrating APIs, relational data models, and third-party services
• Strong understanding of automated testing, security, data integrity, failure handling, and maintainable software design
• Experience diagnosing production behavior using logs, metrics, traces, profiling, and other forms of operational evidence
• Meaningful experience using AI tools in a professional engineering workflow
• Ability to explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, and measurable results
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote, cross-functional environment
• 100% Remote within the United States
• Experience in a lean product organization where engineers work directly with business or operational stakeholders
• Experience with marketplaces, matching, routing, lead management, workflow automation, or other multi-sided products
• Experience building integration-heavy systems involving CRMs, communications platforms, webhooks, asynchronous jobs, or third-party APIs
• Experience with PostgreSQL, background-processing systems such as Celery
• Experience delivering complete features across both backend and frontend systems
• Experience with production incidents, migrations, concurrency, data-quality problems, or other high-consequence workflows
• Experience turning successful AI workflows into reusable automation, tooling, or team practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Paid Time Off: 18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
• Professional Development: Annual budget for learning and career growth
• Tenure Sabbaticals: Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
• Clever Product Benefit: Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
• Work-From-Home Stipend: Support for your remote workspace
• 401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline
• Parental Leave: 6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness Benefits: Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation

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