Software engineering - services

Software Engineer We hire software engineers across levels under a single posting. Boom is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding. Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and a number of integrations with the largest property management systems (PMS). Boom serves renters through the Boom App and property managers via the Boom Platform. It is backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, Mischief VC (Plaid CEO Zach Perret's fund), and Gilgamesh Ventures (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey (CEO of Column, founder and former CTO of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings. Boom has been profiled by Inman, Business Insider, HousingWire, and more.

We recently announced our Series A, and we are growing engineering to meet the demands of our B2B partners and B2C users. The roadmap ahead spans new consumer and platform products, deeper PMS integrations, and an agentic operational layer for residential real estate. Credit, identity, income, and payment data flow through our platform every day, so the systems you build carry real consequences for the people who use them.

You will work closely with our founder, product and engineering leadership, our product team, and a growing group of senior engineers. Our engineering culture is practical and close to the product. We care about shipping work that reaches real users, holding a high bar for quality, and communicating clearly. At our size none of that is settled, so the engineers who join now have a real hand in it: the standards we hold, the tools we adopt, how we use AI, and how we hire. Design, build, and maintain user-facing products and the backend systems that power our platform

Contribute to and help evolve our core backend architecture, with attention to scalability and performance

Collaborate with product, operations, and leadership to align technical solutions with business needs

Drive engineering practice through code review, testing, and documentation

Our platform spans several products, and we staff engineers against the ones where the roadmap is heaviest. Tell us in your application which of these interests you. Work here spans screening operations tooling, the applicant experience, and integrations with the largest property management systems.

BoomReport and core platform. Rent payment reporting to the credit bureaus, rent reporting-as-a-service for partners, embedded partner surfaces, and the billing and platform services the rest of the products are built on.

Leads, tasks, and workflow automation for property managers, plus the listings experience that sits on top of it.

AI and agents. Customer-facing production AI features across every product, plus standalone agents for leasing, application, and underwriting. Own the full agent stack: prompts, tools, memory, retrieval, orchestration, evals, and observability. Build the eval and feedback loops that let us improve agents without regressions, including offline evals, online metrics, and human review queues.

We would rather read your application and talk it through than have you screen yourself out.

3+ years of professional web development experience

• Strong backend development skills, with a preference for engineers who work comfortably across the stack
• Experience with Ruby, or with a similar backend language plus the ability to ramp up quickly in our stack. Our backend primarily runs on Ruby (Grape and Sequel), with a growing number of services in Node.js, and React/Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend
• You use AI coding agents in your daily work and have shipped real code with them. Comfort setting your own direction in an early-stage environment where priorities shift and context is incomplete
• Running coding agents autonomously, including cloud or overnight sessions, and a point of view on how to structure work so that pays off
• Building and maintaining APIs and tooling that other developers consume, including partner-facing integrations and MCP tools
• AWS, Terraform, and infrastructure work generally
• 1-2 years building production LLM features or agents, hands-on with Anthropic or OpenAI APIs and agent patterns such as tool use, structured outputs, RAG, and multi-step planning
• You can articulate what a model should not do, where to put guardrails, when to fall back to deterministic logic, and what UX makes errors tolerable
• Voice AI stacks (LiveKit, Deepgram, ElevenLabs), vector stores, and retrieval pipelines
• A working grasp of common attack classes such as the OWASP Top 10, auth and session flaws, and supply chain risk, and the habit of building secure-by-default paths in code you own
• Experience championing AI adoption with non-technical teammates and meeting them where they are

Competitive salary with stock options

• Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, 3 sick days, and all US federal holidays (11 in total). Company-sponsored training and development
• Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities