Backend 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

We are hiring software engineers to join the Pulley team and help us accelerate our product development. As an early engineer at Pulley, you will get to:

• Help construction teams break ground faster

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

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

• Learn from a seasoned engineering team with a diverse set of experiences

• Work with a modern tech stack (Nodejs, Typescript, GCP, Firebase and AlloyDB) and help scale our platform to managing nationwide construction portfolios for some of the industry's biggest players.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 2-5 years of experience

• Is based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

• Willing to work in-person 4 days a week.

• Thrives in ambiguity and defines the right problems to solve

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

• Architects durable systems while making reasonable tradeoffs

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