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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Boom'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Boom

- **Company:** Boom
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $130k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/boom/fdcb0cea-5ddf-449e-be61-b720da9961d4

## Job description

## ABOUT THE JOB

## OUR MISSION

Boom https://www.boompay.app/ 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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwhiting/ (ex-BCG, Rubicon). It's backed by investors such as Starting Line https://www.startingline.vc/, Clocktower Ventures https://www.clocktowerventures.com/, Mischief VC https://www.mischief.xyz/ (CEO of Plaid Zach Perret's fund), Gilgamesh Ventures https://www.gilgameshvc.com/ (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/04/21/plaids-billionaire-cofounder-is-back-with-a-new-startupa-fintech-friendly-bank-hes-running-with-his-wife/?sh=df10dc453908 CEO of Column, founder/former CTO of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/harry-stebbings-turns-up-the-volume-on-20vc-with-new-140m-fund/. Boom has been profiled by Inman https://www.inman.com/2023/10/30/new-boom-api-to-scale-reporting-of-tenant-payments-to-credit-bureaus/, Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/boom-pitch-deck-fintech-credit-builder-seed-2023-6, HousingWire https://www.housingwire.com/articles/rent-reporting-platform-boom-raises-4-5m-in-seed-round/, and more.

## OPPORTUNITY

We’re expanding our engineering team to meet the growing demands of our B2B partners and B2C users. With a robust product roadmap and new opportunities on the horizon, we’re looking for a Senior Engineer to help scale our platform and build new products. This role offers the chance to work closely with our Co-founders and senior engineers, contributing directly to the growth of the company as we move from Seed to Series A and beyond. For this role, we are hiring for candidates in Austin, TX, where our leadership and product team is located. Comp range listed is directional and adjustable +/- based on competency.

Our engineering culture is hands-on and pragmatic — we value shipping real product, maintaining high standards, and communicating clearly. If you’re excited about scaling impactful products and building in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, reach out.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design, build, and maintain critical user-facing products and backend systems that power our platform
- Contribute to and help evolve our core backend architecture, focusing on scalability and performance
- Collaborate closely with product, operations, and leadership to align technical solutions with business needs
- Drive best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, testing, and documentation
- Play a key role in shaping engineering culture, contributing to hiring efforts, and potentially mentoring or leading other engineers over time

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- 5+ years of experience in web development
- Strong backend development skills with a preference for full stack engineers
- Proven ability to create scalable performant solutions within aggressive deadlines
- Proven experience working in Ruby (or similar backend languages or willingness to learn), with the ability to ramp up quickly in our stack
- Comfortable working across the stack, with React/Next.js and TypeScript strongly preferred
- You are already running AI coding agents autonomously, including overnight, to ship. Daily Claude Code use is table stakes
- experience integrating with third-party APIs: OAuth flows, webhooks, rate limits, indempotency
- Track record of owning services in production. Comfortable with observability, on-call rotations, and debugging real incidents
- Experience with AWS, terraform and Infrastructure in general is a plus
- Strong communication skills — you’re comfortable collaborating across teams and explaining technical concepts clearly
- A self-starter mentality with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
- Empathy for our end users, including low-to-moderate-income renters, and a desire to build products that make a difference

## BENEFITS OF WORKING AT BOOM

- Competitive salary with stock options
- US employees: Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
- 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year + 3 sick days + all US federal holidays (11 in total) (note: we think unlimited PTO is BS and causes some employees to feel guilty when they take it)
- Company-issued laptop/MacBook
- Company-sponsored training & development
- Regular off-sites and other company-sponsored travel opportunities

## About Boom

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Boom provides modern rental financial services, including tenant screening and rent reporting, to help property managers streamline operations and renters build credit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Rob Whiting (Co‑founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services (Property Technology / Fintech)
- **Target customers**: B2B (property managers, owners/operators of multifamily, SFR, manufactured housing) and B2C (renters)
- **Mission**: “Make housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding.”

## Products & Services
- **BoomReport**: An automated rent‑reporting solution that reports residents’ rent payments to Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, helping renters build credit. Includes a mobile app (iOS & Android) with a free credit score and a revenue‑generation option for property managers.
- **BoomScreen**: A configurable tenant‑screening tool that offers income verification (by bank, payroll, or documents), county‑level criminal and eviction reports, multi‑faceted fraud detection, and customizable data services.
- **Boom Platform (B2B)**: A SaaS platform that integrates with major property management software (Buildium, Entrata, ManageAmerica, Quext, Rent Manager, Rentvine, ResMan, Yardi, AppFolio) and provides APIs/webhooks for secure data exchange.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$4.5M** (Seed round, announced May 2023)
- **Notable Investors**: Starting Line (lead), Intuit Prosperity Accelerator (non‑equity assistance), and other individual investors including Ezra Galston, Zach & Tom Petit, and Ben Savage.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of **44 employees** (+50.9% year‑over‑year)
  - Operations in **10 countries** (US, Philippines, Vietnam, Ukraine, Israel, Georgia, Brazil, Slovakia, South Korea, Colombia)
  - Acquired **Alpaca** in July 2023
  - Annual revenue estimated at **$764,565** (LinkedIn data)
  - Active job postings: 12 (monthly trend +50%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated suite**: Offers both rent reporting and tenant screening on a single platform, creating a full lifecycle solution for property managers.
- **Deep PMS integrations**: Two‑way integrations with 10+ major property management systems, reducing friction for partners.
- **Configurable and scalable**: Modular SaaS products that can be used together or separately, with pricing discounts for bundled adoption.
- **Built in‑house**: End‑to‑end software development gives Boom control over quality, security, and feature velocity.
- **Security emphasis**: Encrypted credentials, regular penetration testing, and SOC‑like practices.

## Strategic Focus
- Drive on‑time payments, reduce fraud, and grow revenue across the renter lifecycle.
- Expand integrations with additional property management systems and enhance the renter app with full credit bureau reporting (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion).
- Grow the engineering and product teams to accelerate product development (open roles: AI Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding Security Engineer, Software Engineering Manager, etc.).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven organization emphasizing **Impact**, **Integrity**, **Grit**, and **Curiosity**.
- **Work environment**: HQ in Austin, TX, with a distributed team across 10 countries – likely remote‑friendly.
- **Growth**: High‑growth startup (+50% headcount YoY) with a clear mission and early‑stage product momentum.
- **Engineering**: Strong technical team (16 in technical roles), building modern SaaS from the ground up, with opportunities to own significant projects.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers a customer‑facing impact and a fast‑paced, results‑oriented culture.

## Sources
1. [boompay.app](https://www.boompay.app/)
2. [boompay.app/about-us](https://www.boompay.app/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/boom-pay](https://www.linkedin.com/company/boom-pay)
4. [theorg.com/org/boompay-app](https://theorg.com/org/boompay-app)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/boom-pay/__swdT7Vw6m1bGLI0NqQs3jK5JkuHSWXpw-6rgrpX8Ga0)

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