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title: 'Product Engineer at The American Housing Corporation'
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# Product Engineer at The American Housing Corporation

- **Company:** The American Housing Corporation
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-housing/0de16af3-067d-4631-91f7-83932854ec02

## Job description

As a Senior Product Engineer, you will help build Alamo, the internal software platform that powers The American Housing Corporation’s manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, production, real estate, design, and operations workflows.

You will work directly with the people running the business to understand real operational problems, shape product solutions, and ship software that makes the company faster, clearer, and more capable. You will build tools that help architects design homes, help real estate teams identify developable opportunities, and help manufacturing teams turn those designs into physical products.

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong product instincts, excellent taste in user experience, and the technical depth to take ideas from ambiguous problem to reliable production system.

The role is based full-time in Austin, TX.

## What You’ll Be Working On

- Build product workflows for Alamo, our internal MES/ERP platform.
- Build software that helps architects design, configure, and refine homes from concept through production.
- Build tools that help the real estate team evaluate land, identify developable opportunities, and understand project feasibility.
- Work closely with manufacturing, supply chain, finance, design, real estate, and operations teams to understand their workflows and identify high-leverage product opportunities.
- Turn messy operational processes into simple, elegant, and reliable software.
- Own features end-to-end: discovery, design, implementation, rollout, iteration, and maintenance.
- Build polished user experiences using Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui.
- Develop backend services, database models, and APIs that support mission-critical operational workflows.
- Help define the product and design standards for internal software at AHC.
- Improve speed, quality, traceability, and decision-making across the business.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong fullstack engineering ability, especially with TypeScript, React, and relational databases.
- Excellent product judgment and a track record of building software that users genuinely adopt.
- Strong taste in user experience, information architecture, and workflow design.
- Ability to work directly with operators, understand their problems, and translate them into clear product requirements.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and making thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Strong communication skills and a high degree of ownership.
- Experience building internal tools, ERP, MES, inventory, logistics, manufacturing, construction, or operational software is a plus.

Additional Information

- The company provides comprehensive benefits, PTO, and participation in company equity programs.
- This is an in-person role for builders who want to work closely with the people using the software every day.
- No visa sponsorship.

## About The American Housing Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The American Housing Corporation is a vertically integrated real estate developer and housing manufacturer that industrializes homebuilding to deliver beautiful, attainable starter homes in America’s most dynamic cities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage, backed by venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Riley Meik (CEO), Bobby Fijan, Harris Rothaermel, and William Davis

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Housing manufacturing, real estate development, construction technology
- **Target Customers**: Homebuyers and renters seeking high-quality, moderately priced starter homes in growing U.S. cities; also partners with developers and landowners through joint ventures
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Saving the American Dream” by solving the “Missing Middle” housing crisis — bringing an abundance of beautiful starter homes to the nation’s most dynamic cities and neighborhoods

## Products & Services
- **Rowhomes (Proprietary Kit-of-Parts)**: A prefabricated building system designed for mass production, low-cost shipping (each component fits in intermodal shipping containers), and rapid on-site assembly (homes assembled in days). These are conventional, code-compliant homes available for purchase or rent.
- **Alamo (Internal Software Platform)**: An end-to-end orchestration platform that manages the entire development stack — from underwriting and site planning to factory production and on-site assembly.
- **Factory Manufacturing**: Custom machines and tools engineered in-house to automate production and ensure consistent quality for every major building component.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Pre-Seed round completed with 1 investor (amount undisclosed); individual real estate projects financed through private real estate capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “leading venture capital firms” (parent company); specific investors not disclosed. Notable alumni from: Meta, Aro Homes, Saronic Technologies, Hustle Fund, Starlight Labs
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount growth: +16.7% monthly growth, from ~10 employees to 14 (LinkedIn data)
  - First factory opened in Austin in 2025; pipeline includes Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Montana
  - 6 active job postings as of mid-2025 (despite -14.3% quarterly decline)
  - Strong hiring signal for engineering, design, and manufacturing roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical Integration**: Owns every step — land acquisition, factory production, logistics, software, and on-site assembly — giving unprecedented control over quality, cost, speed, and aesthetics
- **Proprietary Building System**: Kit-of-parts designed for mass production, shipping in standard intermodal containers, and assembly in days
- **Custom Software (Alamo)**: Orchestrates the entire development stack, creating a proprietary data and workflow moat
- **Factory Automation**: Custom machines and tools built in-house to automate production and ensure consistent quality
- **Focus on the “Missing Middle”**: Targeting a critical market gap — high-quality starter homes in dynamic urban areas — that traditional homebuilders and manufactured housing have not solved

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Factory Production**: Expanding factory capacity to produce components at volume
- **Geographic Expansion**: Active pipeline in Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Montana
- **Partnerships with Developers**: Joint ventures with landowners and developers to accelerate land acquisition and project development
- **Product Iteration**: First collection of rowhomes is in development (no custom homebuilding); aiming for purchase and rental availability upon completion
- **Hiring for Core Engineering**: Actively recruiting Senior Software Engineers (Alamo), Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, and Architects to build the technology and factory systems

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: “Housing is the cornerstone of the American Dream” — a mission-driven team of engineers, builders, and architects tackling one of the world’s most neglected engineering frontiers
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in Austin, TX; roles span Design, Manufacturing, Engineering, Software, and Real Estate. The company emphasizes “building beautiful things that shape the lives of millions”
- **Engineering Focus**: Opportunity to work on complex problems at national scale — from custom factory automation and mechanical engineering to building a full-stack software platform (Alamo) that orchestrates real estate development
- **Team Profile**: Small, founder-heavy team (5 founders out of 14 total); lean, high-autonomy environment; talent drawn from Meta, Aro Homes, Saronic Technologies, and Hustle Fund
- **Perks/Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the Austin HQ and factory presence suggest a hybrid/onsite model for manufacturing and engineering roles; software roles may offer flexibility
- **Notable**: Company has a strong engineering culture — job postings for Senior Software Engineer, Director of Mechanical Engineering, and Lead Mechanical Engineer, Building Shell

## Sources
1. [americanhousing.com](https://www.americanhousing.com/)
2. [americanhousing.com/faq](https://www.americanhousing.com/faq)
3. [americanhousing.com/careers](https://www.americanhousing.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - The American Housing Corporation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-american-housing-corporation)
5. [Ashby Jobs - The American Housing Corporation](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-housing)

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