Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Backend) - Market Intelligence

About Mainstay

Mainstay is the leading market intelligence platform purpose built for buying, managing, and selling homes in the single family rental industry. As an AI native company, we turn complex data into clarity that helps the industry move forward with confidence. Founded within Opendoor, Mainstay launched as an independent company in 2024 and recently raised a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.

Ready to shape the future of real estate with AI? Join Mainstay and help us redefine what’s possible in the single family rental space. If you thrive on solving complex problems and want to make a tangible impact in a fast-growing industry, we’d love to hear from you - apply now and let’s move the industry forward, together!

About the role

The Market Intelligence team builds the core data and insight layer that powers how institutional investors understand, evaluate, and operate in the single-family rental market. This team sits at the center of Mainstay’s platform - turning fragmented, real-world housing data into clear, decision-ready products used by some of the largest real estate investors in the country.

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer on Market Intelligence, you’ll work on systems that directly shape how capital is deployed across millions of homes. Your work will influence real investment decisions, drive SaaS revenue, and define how data becomes a competitive advantage at scale. This is high-leverage engineering with clear business impact.

You can expect meaningful ownership, tight feedback loops with customers and stakeholders, and technically complex problems that span data, product, and platform architecture.

In this role you will

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of end-to-end features that power Mainstay’s core Market Intelligence products

• Build and evolve scalable backend services and APIs that aggregate, enrich, and serve large, complex real estate datasets

• Develop and refine frontend product experiences that make sophisticated market data intuitive, trustworthy, and actionable

• Own technical decisions for systems that sit at the center of Mainstay’s SaaS platform and directly influence investor decision-making

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, data science, and data engineering to translate business needs into durable technical solutions

• Improve system reliability, performance, and maintainability as the platform scales

• Modernize and automate legacy real estate workflows by replacing manual analysis with software-driven insights

• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and shared ownership of team standards

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software in fast-paced or early-stage environments

• Strong full-stack engineering skills with a backend-first orientation

• Deep experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend systems, ideally in Python

• Solid frontend experience with React or similar modern frameworks

• Experience working with data-heavy, analytics-driven, or workflow-oriented systems

• Strong technical judgment and the ability to balance speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability

• Clear, thoughtful communication skills for a remote, highly collaborative team

• A proactive, ownership-driven approach to ambiguous problems

This role is a great fit if

• You want to work on high-leverage systems that directly shape how institutional investors deploy capital

• You enjoy owning complex technical problems from problem definition through production impact

• You like working at the intersection of data, product, and business decision-making

• You’re comfortable influencing technical direction and raising the bar for engineering quality

• You thrive in environments with autonomy, responsibility, and evolving priorities

Not a great fit if

• You lack strong backend experience or are uncomfortable owning production systems in Python

• You prefer narrowly scoped tasks over end-to-end ownership

• You avoid frontend or product-facing work entirely

• You struggle with ambiguity, changing requirements, or close cross-functional collaboration

• You prefer highly rigid processes and minimal iteration

Tools we use

• Languages: Python, TypeScript

• Backend: FastAPI, Django

• Frontend: React, Nest.js, Vue

• Data: Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL

• Infra: AWS, Terraform

• Tooling: GitHub Actions

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