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# Senior Software Engineer, Back-end (LatAm) at Homeward

- **Company:** Homeward
- **Location:** Latin America
- **Posted:** 2025-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/homeward/jobs/8191859002

## Job description

## About Homeward

Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.

We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. [Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them](https://www.homeward.com/about-us).

## About the opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.

Due to current team needs, we are only accepting candidates based in Latin America. This is intended to be a long-term contract position.

In this role you will:

- Develop, design, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools in agile environment
- Write automated unit and integration tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
- Participate in code reviews to assess overall code quality and flexibility
- Have a good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies, specifically scrum and/or Kanban
- Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with peers in crafting and implementing the technical vision
- Communicate and work effectively with distributed cross functional teams
- Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur with peers - follow through on details and drive issues to closure
- Work towards continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team
- Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team
- Leverage AI coding assistants and tools to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation
- Design, build, and maintain AI-powered product features, including with LLM API integrations, RAG pipelines, and AI-driven automation

What you’ll bring:

- 6+ years of non-internship, professional back-end development experience
- Deep understanding of web development and best practices
- Strong organizational skills and discipline in both following and appropriately challenging conventions
- Skilled with common back-end technologies and patterns such as ReST API development, asynchronous task management, and databases / data management best practices.
- Deep experience in one or more relevant back-end frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI
- Experience working with Python
- Scrappy determination and flexibility - from updating email templates to building complex web apps; you’re eager to learn and help the team succeed.
- A build, test, learn mindset, with a bias toward quick, calculated action and a focus on business outcomes
- Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
- Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools
- Possess a high bar when it comes to quality - knowing when, what, and how to test
- Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
- Production experience with LLM APIs including prompt design and context management
- General curiosity and comfort navigating the evolving AI landscape

Compensation:

- Competitive hourly rate
- Computer reimbursement

Value-Driven Employee Experience

THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.

## About Homeward

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Homeward is a home buying company that partners with real estate agents to provide cash offers and a seamless, integrated mortgage and title experience for buyers and sellers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded by institutional investors, hundreds of millions raised)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Tim Heyl

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Real estate technology and services
- **Target customers**: B2B (real estate agents) and B2C (home buyers and sellers); primarily serves the U.S. residential market
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We’re here to take the stress out of buying and selling homes.”

## Products & Services
- **Homeward Cash Offer**: A service that enables buyers to make all-cash offers, removing financing contingencies and giving sellers certainty. Type: Service (fintech-enabled real estate)
- **Homeward Mortgage**: An affiliated mortgage company that provides financing options to buyers, often integrated with the cash offer process. Type: Service (mortgage lending)
- **Homeward Title**: An affiliated title company that handles title insurance and closing services. Type: Service (title and escrow)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – hundreds of millions of dollars from institutional investors; over 50,000 home buyers and sellers referred by agents; $ billions in cash home purchases made by Homeward
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Norwest Venture Partners
- **Growth Signals**: Operates in 13 U.S. states; grew from 20 to 200+ employees during the pandemic; named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers (2022), BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work (2022), Inc. Best Workplace (2022); average agent & customer review of 4.7 stars on Google

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent-centric model**: Unlike many iBuyers, Homeward partners with agents rather than trying to displace them, creating strong channel loyalty.
- **Bundled services**: Combining cash offers, mortgage, and title under one roof reduces friction and saves time/money for buyers and sellers.
- **Speed and certainty**: Cash offers remove the uncertainty of financing contingencies, allowing clients to move faster and feel more confident.
- **Strong brand and trust**: High customer satisfaction ratings and multiple “best workplace” awards signal a well-run organization.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Growing from 13 states into more markets across the U.S.
- **Deepening integration**: Continuing to refine the seamless experience across Homeward, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title.
- **Talent growth**: Scaling a remote-first team while maintaining a strong culture of collaboration, empathy, and focus.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Fully remote with headquarters in Austin; team members across the U.S. and in India (Delhi NCR) and Latin America (for some roles).
- **Equity for all**: Every full-time employee receives an equity grant, fostering ownership mentality.
- **Generous benefits**: 14 weeks paid parental leave (primary), 7 weeks (secondary); 20 days vacation + 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays; 5 sick days; medical, dental, vision; 401k match; life and accident insurance.
- **Culture highlights**: Named “Homeweirdos” – diverse, quirky team with emphasis on the Golden Rule (treat others with respect), calm focus, and collaboration. Recognized by Forbes, BuiltIn, and Inc. as a top workplace.
- **Impactful mission**: Employees directly help people achieve homeownership, which is described as “making people’s homeownership dreams come true.”

## Sources
1. [homeward.com/about-us](https://www.homeward.com/about-us)
2. [homeward.com/careers](https://www.homeward.com/careers)
3. [homeward.com](https://www.homeward.com/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/homeward](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/homeward)
5. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Homeward-3)

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