Staff Software Engineer

About Owlue Owlue is a seed-stage company that already earns revenue. We automate property tax appeals end to end: finding over-assessed homes, valuing them, building the evidence and filing. The filing is the easy part. The hard part is building a case an appeals board will accept, for thousands of homes, in counties that each record and value property differently. The role Most appraisers have never written a line of code. Most engineers have never defended a comp grid. We're looking for someone who has done both. You'll build the engine that does what a good appraiser does, at scale. Every county is its own puzzle. King and Kitsap in Washington look nothing like Miami-Dade and Broward in Florida, and the model has to know the difference. What you'll do • Own county valuation models end to end, from raw county data to the evidence packet a homeowner files • Select comparable sales the way a reviewer would: same class, close in time and distance, and bracketing the subject on the features that matter • Measure adjustments from the market instead of assuming them: time trends, condition, view, waterfront, site, basements • Encode the rules of each jurisdiction: gross adjustment limits, the subject's own recent sale, and the fields a county doesn't record • Write the grid and the narrative the way a board of equalization expects to read them • Work alongside the engineer who built our first county models and directly with the founders. What we're looking for • Experience as an appraiser or assessor, or in property tax consulting. You know what paired sales analysis is, why bracketing matters, and how a hearing actually goes. • Production coding experience, comfortable in Python and SQL. You've built models, not just used them. • When a number looks wrong, you want to know why. Nice to have • Mass appraisal or CAMA experience • IAAO coursework, USPAP, or a designation (MAI, SRA, CAE) • Regression or hedonic modeling What we offer • Full-time W2, remote anywhere in the US • Meaningful early-employee equity • Health, dental and vision coverage • Flexible PTO How to apply Send your resume or LinkedIn profile, along with one paragraph about a valuation you had to defend: what the other side argued and how you held your number.