Senior Software Engineer - Lease Market Experience
VTS
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Lease Market Experience team. In this role, you'll take a leading role on high-impact, customer-facing projects on a major business line and help advance VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform. You will build products and support a platform that directly impacts our end users, tackling the challenges of complex, tightly integrated applications and services.
As a senior member of the team, you will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality features, maintain a stable and scalable platform, and champion rigorous development practices and standards.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **
To thrive in this role, you have:
- A strong command of fundamental design principles and the architectural patterns behind scalable applications, with proven expertise in delivering high-quality, clean, and maintainable code using frameworks like Ruby and Rails, React, and Typescript.
- Experience designing and implementing database schemas that effectively represent and support complex business processes.
- A passion for mentoring other engineers through thoughtful code reviews, technical guidance, and pair programming.
- The ability to own and drive complex features from concept to completion, including identifying requirements, creating work breakdowns, and managing your delivery schedule.
- A strategic mindset for identifying and resolving ambiguous technical issues, making informed trade-offs to advance broad initiatives.
- The ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment and a commitment to elevating the skills and knowledge of the entire team.
- A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool.
What you'll do:
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for major features, from technical design and implementation to testing and deployment.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code for complex, customer-facing applications.
- Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, helping to level-up their skills and fostering engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering leads to refine requirements and shape the technical roadmap.
- Work effectively with data storage solutions like Postgres, Snowflake, and S3.
- Write comprehensive unit, integration, and regression tests with tools like RSpec and Jest.
- Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, bugs, and architectural weaknesses to improve the platform.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation, and manage codebase dependencies and framework upgrades.
- Participate actively in all sprint rituals and communicate effectively with a distributed team using tools like Zoom, Slack, and JIRA.
Our Tech Stack
- Required: Experience with Ruby, Rails, Typescript, React, PostgresSQL, RSpec, Sidekiq, and cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Python, Go, Terraform, dbt, or Snowflake.
- CI/CD: We use tools for continuous integration and deployment like Github Actions, Kubernetes, and Docker.
What VTS Values & How We Show It
- Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
- Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - quarterly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
- Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!
- Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
- Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
- Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!
VTS is the industry's only technology platform that unifies owners, operators, brokers, and their customers across the commercial and residential real estate ecosystems. In 2013, VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, the VTS Platform is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by real estate professionals across the globe.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $139,000 and $170,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.