Software Engineer

About the role

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

We hire software engineers across levels under a single posting. Title, compensation, and scope are set during the process based on demonstrated competency, so apply once and we will place you at the right level. We are currently focused on mid- to senior-level hires, with room to move in either direction for the right candidate.

OUR MISSION

Boom is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding. Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and a number of integrations with the largest property management systems (PMS). Boom serves renters through the Boom App and property managers via the Boom Platform. Now serving thousands of renters, Boom is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting (ex-BCG, Rubicon). It is backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, Mischief VC (Plaid CEO Zach Perret's fund), and Gilgamesh Ventures (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey (CEO of Column, founder and former CTO of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings. Boom has been profiled by Inman, Business Insider, HousingWire, and more.

OPPORTUNITY

We recently announced our Series A, and we are growing engineering to meet the demands of our B2B partners and B2C users. The roadmap ahead spans new consumer and platform products, deeper PMS integrations, and an agentic operational layer for residential real estate. Credit, identity, income, and payment data flow through our platform every day, so the systems you build carry real consequences for the people who use them.

You will work closely with our founder, product and engineering leadership, our product team, and a growing group of senior engineers. We are hiring in Austin, TX, where our leadership and product team is based.

Our engineering culture is practical and close to the product. We care about shipping work that reaches real users, holding a high bar for quality, and communicating clearly. At our size none of that is settled, so the engineers who join now have a real hand in it: the standards we hold, the tools we adopt, how we use AI, and how we hire. If that sounds like how you want to work, we would like to hear from you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Every engineer here owns product in production. You will:

- Design, build, and maintain user-facing products and the backend systems that power our platform

- Contribute to and help evolve our core backend architecture, with attention to scalability and performance

- Own your services in production, including observability, on-call, and debugging real incidents

- Collaborate with product, operations, and leadership to align technical solutions with business needs

- Drive engineering practice through code review, testing, and documentation

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