About Rental Beast

Rental Beast is a real estate tech firm that aims to simplify every part of the leasing process with an end-to-end SaaS solution. Our platform includes a comprehensive database of rental listings, a full CRM, and a native application tool. We primarily help real estate agents, and we partner with major multiple listing services and national brokerages, including Coldwell Banker, Century21, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Long & Foster, Better Homes & Gardens, and many others.

Job Summary:

The mission of the technology team is to move ideas from vision to deployed business capability with high quality, scalability and timely delivery, wrapped in a repeatable and predictable workflow, using as much reliable automation as possible. We are very much focused on finding the most suitable technologies and tools for the job and applying them in the optimal configurations to achieve our business goals.

Our tech team is small, versatile and highly skilled: everyone is involved with, and critical to, projects that have major business impact. You will drive the development of projects and features that will get serious use in high value business situations. While our team members have primary responsibilities and expertise, we are looking for multifaceted talent who have the skill set and the desire to be able to work across multiple areas of the platform.

The company is growing fast; engineers will be able to grow their skill sets, responsibilities and positions. We assume that all team members are responsible for developing, supporting and evolving unit tests, keeping the code repositories well maintained and active participation in all Agile scrum ceremonies.

Currently, we are looking for a senior-level frontend software engineer with significant design and implementation experience who is highly motivated, self-driven and will take on the following responsibilities:

• Design, code, test and debug new product enhancements at the UI and API layer for our commercial software products stack.

• Drive maintainable and reusable solutions that are both secure and adhering to acceptable performance benchmarks.

• Collaborate with Product and UI/UX team members in the design of modern UI and presentation layers across multiple platforms.

• Conduct code reviews / PRs for peers.

• Embrace, implement and evangelize test automation (and automation in general) as part of the fabric of the team, including unit testing.

• Collaborate with back-end developers with a focus on designing and building decoupled interfaces, components and services accessed through a secure API layer

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on defining industry best practices, including design patterns, technology adoption and leveraging advanced cloud capabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or other equivalent degrees.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in developing commercial, web-based applications

• 6+ years of applied knowledge of modern user-centric design and UI development including SPA with heavy experience in React.

• 3+ years of experience building API endpoints in Ruby/Rails including controllers, actions and routing.

• Required programming skills: React, Ruby / Rails, Javascript, HTML5, CSS

• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID.

• API development experience, plus tools such as Postman, Swagger.

• Experience developing Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy products.

• Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum product development and its related collaboration and issue tracking tools (JIRA).

• Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model including Git/Github, Jenkins and CI pipeline automation tools.

• Experience working for a SaaS commercial software product company requiring software product usage and high availability in a 24/7/365 model.

• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness for continual learning.

• Must be willing to mentor junior developers.

• Must be willing to remediate code written by others.

• Team player attitude with a focus on the success of the team is a MUST.

• Must be able to work in a structured development environment and follow coding standards and design patterns.

• Proactively collaborates with other teams/team members across time zones with the upmost professionalism, tact and resolve.