Senior Software Engineer

🎯 Our Mission

At Pulley, we are on a mission to help construction teams break ground faster. The United States is short between 4-7 million homes while housing production and affordability remain near historic lows. Meanwhile, retail and office real estate are still adapting to the post-pandemic world and the AI boom has led to significant investments in data center infrastructure.

Permitting requirements vary vastly by jurisdiction, making it challenging to navigate for home builders, retailers, architects and contractors. It creates a critical bottleneck that every project must traverse. While the industry remains largely fragmented and underserved, we believe that combining cutting-edge software with permitting expertise can condense permitting timelines from months to days or even hours!

🏗️ About Us

We are a passionate team building software for the built environment around us. Founded by Charlie Jacobson and Andreas Rotenberg in 2021, our team combines deep experience in real estate and construction with a track record of shipping software loved by millions of customers.

We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, BoxGroup, Fifth Wall, Operator, South Park Commons, Suffolk Construction and leaders from Plaid, Segment, Procore, ServiceTitan, Built, BuildZoom, and eero.

🏠 What We’re Building

We’re building the world’s first software platform for construction permitting — for any project, in any city. Our north star is speed; everything we do is in the service of helping our customers get their permits as fast as possible.

We serve some of the top developers, builders, retailers and architects in the industry to permit new apartment buildings, office space, homes, stores and much more!

🧑‍💻 The Role

As an early engineer at Pulley, you will get to:

• Help construction teams break ground faster

• Talk to users, define requirements, and own features end-to-end

• Shape the team culture, product direction and help build the team

• Work with a modern tech stack (React, Tailwind, TypeScript, Vercel, and Google Cloud) and help scale our platform to managing nationwide construction portfolios for some of the industry's biggest players.

• Leverage and develop cutting-edge AI tools to turn unstructured permitting documents and city regulations into delightful experiences.

👋 Who You Are

We are looking for someone who:

• Thrives in ambiguity and define the right problems to solve

• Can translate complex customer needs into extensible, scalable product solutions

• Enjoys collaborating with designers to meticulously craft great experiences

• Architects durable systems while making reasonable tradeoffs

• Willing to learn and apply the latest technologies to automate processes

• Is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, willing to work in person 4 days a week.

• Has 5+ years of experience working as a full-time software engineer