Full Stack Developer

About the role

WHY HILLPOINTE? Hillpointe is a fully integrated real estate development and investment management firm focused on developing market-rate workforce housing across the Sun Belt. Ranked at the top of NMHC's list of Builders and Developers, our team ensures best-in-class execution.

Built on its long and proven track record of real estate development, the firm’s investment approach is centered around its in-house general contracting expertise, enabling direct control of cost and delivery timeframe. For each project, Hillpointe directly controls land acquisition, land development, construction, procurement of building materials, asset management, and capital markets. This is more than just a job - it's a career-defining opportunity! At Hillpointe, you'll be part of a dynamic, innovative team that has tangible impacts on day-to-day operations and contributes directly to overall success.

Full Stack Developer

Hillpointe is hiring a Full Stack Developer to help build HPOS, the property management platform for our vertically integrated multifamily real estate business, from scratch. This is a greenfield engineering role. You will help establish the architecture, design the data model, ship the first services, and set the patterns the rest of the platform will inherit.

Expect a zero-to-one cadence. Design an API contract in the morning, ship a Postgres migration before lunch, push a Bicep change to staging by end of day. We optimize for engineers who can hold the full stack in their head, make sound architectural decisions, and ship working software at pace.

The Role at a Glance:

- Scope: Schema to UI: Database design, API contracts, frontend components, infrastructure. No tier is off-limits.

- Surface: Greenfield build: Property management platform built from scratch. Multi-tenant from day one. Operator tooling, leasing, accounting, capital markets.

- Cadence: Zero to one: Trunk-based development, short-lived branches, feature flags, working software in staging on a daily rhythm.

- Impact: Foundational: What you ship in the first year becomes how the platform works for the next ten.

Key Responsibilities:

- React surfaces: First-generation operator and resident-facing applications. React 18 with TypeScript, Vite, TanStack Query v5, React Hook Form, Zod. Component composition against the PDS Foundation design system. The patterns set here will be inherited by every surface that follows.

- Service layer: TypeScript services on Node 20 LTS with NestJS or Express. OpenAPI contracts shared with the front end through code generation. JWT and OAuth flows, RBAC enforcement, structured audit logs, request-scoped tracing. The shared libraries that every future service will depend on.

- Postgres data model: Multi-tenant schema design on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Tenant isolation strategy, normalization tradeoffs, index strategy from day one, audit trails baked into the data model. Migrations through Prisma or Knex.