--- title: 'Software Engineer at Orchard' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-orchard-new-york-vjh8b7s0y296' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Software Engineer at Orchard - **Company:** Orchard - **Location:** New York, NY - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orchard/jobs/8817823002 ## Job description ## About Orchard Orchard is transforming the way people buy and sell their homes. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, easy.  Every year in the U.S., $1.5 trillion of single family homes transact, generating over $120 billion of fees in a process that has changed little in decades. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard offers a modern alternative, making one of life's biggest decisions -- the sale and purchase of a home –so stress free, fair and simple that people cannot imagine any other way. Orchard is headquartered in New York City, has 150+ employees, a network of 600 agents and has grown nearly 2x year over the last 2 years. We have raised equity financing from top tier investors including: Firstmark, Accomplice, Revolution Growth, Navitas and Juxtapose. ## About the Role Orchard’s engineering team values clarity, collaboration, and ownership. Our team builds the systems behind Orchard’s website and the tools that help agents reach new customers. We focus on helping people explore homes, book consultations, and connect with our agents. Our site serves over 150k unique visitors each month and sees about 700k pageviews. The team partners closely with marketing, product, and design to support new campaigns, track performance, and ensure the site is fast and reliable at scale. You'll work on the systems that make this possible - backend, frontend, or both, depending on where the work takes you. That means building and improving APIs, data services, and integrations that support both customers and agents. Your work will touch many parts of the systems our team owns. We build and maintain the services that bring new customers into Orchard, from the public website and intake flows, to scheduling and consultation booking. We also support the tools that help our agents work with those customers, like managing and syncing leads, powering outreach, and maintaining privacy and consent systems that keep customer data safe and compliant. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business stakeholders to plan and ship projects. The team is small and moves quickly, so you’ll have real ownership and visibility in your work. Most of our engineering work today is agent-driven: we use tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex daily, and the job is less about typing code yourself and more about scoping the work well, directing AI tools effectively, and catching it when they get something wrong. We're looking for engineers who are good at that loop, not just comfortable with AI tools existing. This is a full-time role that will report into our Senior Software Engineer and be based out of the New York office, where we are in office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. ## What You'll Do Here - Build and maintain the services and interfaces that power Orchard's website and internal tools. Most of our stack uses Qwik on the frontend and Python with Postgres and OpenSearch on the backend, though some other services use React and TypeScript. - Work with product and design to turn ideas into clear, well-scoped projects. - Debug and improve core services to make them faster and more reliable as we prepare for national growth over the next 12-18 months. - Ensure our systems can scale smoothly as our user base continues to grow. - Write clean, tested code that’s easy to understand and maintain. - Help improve developer workflows, testing, and documentation. - Take part in on-call rotations and own the systems you build. - Work with a small team that values communication, trust, and practical solutions. - Use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex as part of your daily workflow to build and ship features efficiently. - Comfortable reviewing code you didn't write We'd Love to Hear From You if You Have - At least 2+ years of experience as a software engineer. - Strong skills in at least one language relevant to our stack (Python, TypeScript, or Go), with solid knowledge of APIs and data modeling. - Experience with tools like AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, or CircleCI is a plus. - Experience directing AI coding tools effectively - A low-ego, problem-solving mindset. You take ownership, improve what you touch, and ask for help when something doesn't add up. - Interest in a hands-on team where engineers ship quickly and have real impact. For NYC residents only: The pay range for this position in New York City is $130,000-$150,000/year. The actual base pay offered may vary within the range provided depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Stock options and other incentive pay may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law. Please note that the range provided is applicable only to New York City-based applicants. Base compensation may vary if the work location is outside of New York City. Orchard is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. ## About Orchard ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Orchard is a technology-enabled residential real estate platform that allows homeowners to buy their next home before selling their current one, simplifying and de-risking the moving process. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Court Cunningham and Chris Smith ## Core Business - Primary industry: Residential real estate technology (proptech) and brokerage services. - Target customers: Homeowners and homebuyers (B2C) in the United States. - Mission: To transform the way people buy and sell their homes by making the process fair, straightforward, and easy – so customers can focus on making a home, not just a transaction. ## Products & Services - **Buy Before You Sell**: Orchard’s core product allows homeowners to get a cash offer on their current home, use that equity to purchase a new home, and then sell their old home on their timeline. Combines technology, guaranteed offers, and licensed agents. - **Mortgage Services**: Orchard offers mortgage loan origination through its own licensed loan officers, providing a seamless financing option for customers. - **Brokerage Services**: Licensed real estate agents work with clients as part of the Orchard team, providing support and high-quality seller leads. - **Technology Platform**: A proprietary platform that powers the entire transaction, including consumer-facing web/mobile apps, an operations platform for agents and back-office teams, and data infrastructure for analytics and automation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue and funding details not disclosed) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed from available sources - **Growth Signals**: - Active hiring for 73+ roles across engineering, product, marketing, mortgage, and brokerage teams as of mid‑2026. - Operations in 12 major U.S. markets (Atlanta, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa Bay). - Recognized as a “Best Places to Work” in 2021 and 2023, and a “Best Company for Women to Advance” in 2022. ## Competitive Advantages - **Differentiated “Buy Before You Sell” Model**: Reduces the stress and financial risk of moving by allowing homeowners to purchase a new home before listing their current one, using a guaranteed cash offer. - **Integrated Tech Platform**: Orchard builds its own software end‑to‑end (consumer, operations, data) to orchestrate the entire transaction, creating a seamless experience that traditional brokerages cannot easily replicate. - **Full‑Service Brokerage + Mortgage**: By offering brokerage and mortgage in‑house, Orchard controls the entire transaction lifecycle, improves customer conversion, and captures more value. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic Expansion**: Continuing to enter new U.S. markets and scale existing ones. - **Product Development**: Investing in engineering and product teams to further improve the consumer and agent experience, including mobile, data infrastructure, and operational tools. - **Agent Growth**: Attracting and retaining top real estate agents by providing vetted seller leads, seamless transaction services, and a strong brand. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Orchard emphasizes respect, ownership, finding a way, treating people with respect, and creating raving fans. The company has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Steering Committee and hosts frequent team events, book clubs, and diversity panels. - **Benefits**: - Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for new parents + 10 weeks paid family care leave. - Flexible paid time off. - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance (some fully sponsored for employees and dependents). - Wellness resources (primary care, fertility support, fitness classes, mental health offerings). - 401(k) plan with employer match, plus life insurance. - Professional development: paid industry certifications and license renewals. - Team events including monthly lunches, happy hours, and holiday gatherings. - **Engineering Culture**: Tech stack includes Node, Python, Go, React, Qwik, Postgres, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Airflow, and RedShift. Engineers work in autonomous teams with high feature ownership, partnering closely with Product and Design. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office‑based in major U.S. cities (New York, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, etc.). Some roles may be location‑specific. ## Sources 1. [orchard.com/careers](https://orchard.com/careers) 2. [orchard.com/about](https://orchard.com/about) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/orchard](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orchard) 4. [orchard.com/](https://orchard.com/) 5. 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