Senior Software Engineer II - Frontend

Software Engineer With A Passion For The Frontend

Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estate's critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision: empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry.

Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

What You'll Work On:

• Lead the design and development of our next-generation frontend architecture

• Implement high-quality user interfaces that are fast, beautiful, and accessible

• Build complex state management systems that are reliable and easy to understand

• Define and enforce frontend code standards, testing practices, and validation frameworks

• Translate designs from Figma into modular, production-ready code

• Own the frontend development process end-to-end, from technical planning through QA and release

• Develop new client-facing features and interfaces

• Partner with designers and backend engineers to create seamless experiences

• Drive improvements in performance, maintainability, scalability, and overall FE code health

• Tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards across our codebase

• Help shape our engineering culture and frontend team as we grow

Required For This Role:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on frontend development

• Strong proficiency in Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and modern JS frameworks, especially React

• Experience working on large, complex single-page applications

• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, separation of concerns

• Expertise with JavaScript build tools (e.g. Webpack, Vite) and how frontend code is packaged and delivered

• Experience with modern testing frameworks like Playwright, Jest, Cypress, Mocha, or Chai

• Experience working in a full-stack capacity (comfortable contributing to the backend code; experience with Ruby, Python, or Node)

• Ability to translate visual designs into well-structured frontend code

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Salary Range

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.

The compensation for this position is $170-$200K base salary + equity + benefits

Benefits

• Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays

• 401K with a company match

• Medical, dental, and vision plans

• HSA and FSA options

• Commuter benefits

• Parental leave

• Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

• Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups

Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.