Senior Lead Developer & Technical Architect - Real Estate Technology Platform

About SUBI

SUBI is revolutionizing real estate transaction management through intelligent document processing and seamless team collaboration. Our platform's core innovation is an AI-powered document processor that automatically analyzes executed contracts (PDFs/Word docs) to extract required forms, generate task workflows, and identify critical deadlines - eliminating hours of manual work for real estate professionals.

We operate with AI-augmented development as our standard practice - using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Junie, etc.) to accelerate delivery while maintaining enterprise-grade quality. This methodology has driven our remarkable MVP progress in just weeks, and we need a technical leader who already operates at this level to drive our vision forward.

The Opportunity

As our Senior Lead Developer and Technical Architect, you'll be the technical cornerstone of our growing engineering team with an immediate focus on shipping our MVP document processor within 2 months. This role demands a hands-on technical leader who leverages AI coding agents as standard practice to accelerate development while maintaining enterprise-grade quality.

You'll join a team of high-performing do-ers operating in a fast-paced, nimble, early-stage environment - with all the perks and challenges that come with building something from the ground up. We need someone who thrives in this setting: a do-er first who can manage and scale the team as we grow, not a manager who occasionally writes code.

What You'll Own

Technical Vision & Strategy

• Architectural Leadership: Design and evolve our full-stack architecture, making critical decisions about technology stack, system design, and scalability patterns
• Technical Roadmap: Drive long-term technical strategy aligned with business objectives and market opportunities
• Innovation Leadership: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, particularly in AI/ML, real-time collaboration, and workflow automation
• Technical Standards: Establish and enforce coding standards, testing practices, and development workflows across the organization

Hands-On Development Excellence

• Full-Stack Mastery: Lead development across our Rails 8.x API backend and modern React/TypeScript frontend
• Complex Problem Solving: Tackle challenging technical problems in real estate workflow automation, multi-tenant architecture, and real-time collaboration
• Performance Engineering: Optimize application performance, database queries, and system scalability for growing user demands
• Security Implementation: Ensure robust security practices including authentication, authorization, data protection, and compliance requirements

Platform Development Leadership

• Intelligent Document Processing: Lead development of our core document processor that automatically analyzes executed contracts (PDFs/Word docs) to extract forms, tasks, and critical due dates - this is the heart of our platform's value proposition
• AI-Powered Contract Analysis: Build sophisticated AI systems using the best available models (currently Google Gemini) to parse complex real estate contracts, identify required forms, extract deadlines, and generate automated task workflows
• Transaction Workflow Automation: Transform extracted contract data into actionable workflows with automated task generation, deadline tracking, and intelligent status monitoring
• Real-Time Collaboration: Build and optimize WebSocket-based real-time features for seamless team coordination around contract milestones
• Integration Ecosystem: Develop robust integrations with Google Calendar, AWS S3, Stripe, and other essential real estate tools

Team Leadership & Development

• Hands-On Leadership: Lead by example as a do-er first - writing code, solving problems, and building systems while scaling the team around you
• Technical Mentoring: Guide junior developers and coordinate with offshore talent through complex technical challenges and career development
• Code Excellence: Conduct thorough code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and testing across distributed teams
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Early-Stage Team Building: Build and scale a high-performing engineering culture in a fast-paced, resource-conscious startup environment

Technical Requirements

Core Backend Expertise

• Ruby on Rails: 5+ years of expert-level Rails experience (7.x/8.x preferred), with deep knowledge of Active Record, Rails API patterns, and advanced Rails features
• Database Mastery: Advanced PostgreSQL skills including complex query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance tuning
• Authentication & Security: Extensive experience with Devise, JWT, OAuth2, role-based access control, and security best practices
• Background Processing: Proficiency with Sidekiq, Redis, and complex asynchronous job processing patterns
• Testing Excellence: Comprehensive RSpec experience with TDD/BDD practices, including request specs, model specs, and integration testing

Frontend Excellence

• React Ecosystem: Advanced React and TypeScript skills with modern patterns (hooks, context, custom hooks, performance optimization)
• Modern Routing: Experience with React Router 7 and advanced routing patterns
• State Management: Proficiency with modern state management approaches and data flow patterns
• UI/UX Implementation: Experience with Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, responsive design, and accessibility best practices
• Build & Optimization: Familiarity with Vite, modern bundling, code splitting, and frontend performance optimization

AI-Powered Development Methodology

• AI Agent Proficiency: Extensive experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Junie, etc.) to accelerate development while maintaining code quality
• AI-Assisted Architecture: Ability to leverage AI agents for rapid prototyping, code generation, and technical problem-solving under tight deadlines
• Human-AI Collaboration: Expert at directing AI agents to handle heavy lifting while providing strategic technical direction and oversight
• Modern Development Workflow: Embraces AI-augmented development as the new standard for high-velocity software delivery

Infrastructure & DevOps

• Cloud Platforms: Production experience with Render.com, AWS, or similar cloud platforms
• Containerization: Docker experience for both development and production environments
• CI/CD: Experience building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines
• Monitoring & Observability: Application monitoring, logging, error tracking, and performance analysis
• Security Operations: Security best practices, vulnerability assessment, and compliance implementation

Integration & API Development

• Third-Party APIs: Google Calendar API, OAuth providers, payment systems (Stripe), and other business-critical integrations
• File & Document Management: AWS S3, file upload handling, document processing, and storage optimization
• Real-Time Systems: WebSocket implementation, real-time feature development, and event-driven architectures

AI/ML Integration & Document Processing

• Rapid AI Development: Proven ability to quickly build and deploy AI systems with high accuracy requirements under tight deadlines
• Document Analysis AI: Hands-on experience integrating AI services (Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT-4, Claude, etc.) for document processing, with the ability to evaluate and select the best models for specific use cases
• OCR & Text Processing: Experience with optical character recognition, PDF parsing, and extracting structured data from unstructured documents
• Natural Language Processing: Understanding of NLP techniques for extracting dates, tasks, and structured information from legal documents
• Machine Learning Pipelines: Experience building and optimizing ML pipelines for document classification and data extraction
• AI Model Selection: Experience evaluating and selecting optimal AI models for specific document processing tasks, with flexibility to switch between providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, etc.) based on performance requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Leadership Experience

• Do-er First Leadership: 3+ years leading development teams as a hands-on technical contributor who can manage and scale teams as needed, not a traditional manager
• Early-Stage Experience: Proven success in fast-paced startup environments with resource constraints and rapidly changing requirements
• Offshore Team Coordination: Experience working with and coordinating offshore development talent across different time zones and cultures
• MVP Delivery Experience: Proven track record of shipping production-ready MVPs with high-quality standards and technical excellence under aggressive timelines
• Technical Mentoring: Ability to quickly onboard and guide team members while maintaining development velocity

Industry & Domain Knowledge

• Legal Document Processing: Experience with contract analysis, legal document processing, or compliance-heavy industries
• SaaS Platforms: Experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS applications with complex user hierarchies
• Financial/Transaction Systems: Experience with transaction processing, financial workflows, or compliance requirements
• Document Management: Experience with document processing, AI analysis, and automated workflow systems
• Real Estate Technology: Experience in real estate, property management, or related industries (nice to have, not required)

Advanced Technical Skills

• Performance Engineering: Experience optimizing high-traffic applications and database performance at scale
• System Architecture: Experience designing scalable, maintainable system architectures for complex business domains
• AI-Accelerated Development: Proven track record of using AI coding agents to dramatically accelerate development timelines while maintaining enterprise-grade quality
• Mobile Development: React Native or mobile development experience (bonus)
• Analytics & Data: Experience with application analytics, user tracking, and data-driven development decisions

The Technical Challenges You'll Solve

Immediate Impact (0-2 months) - CRITICAL MVP DELIVERY

• Ship MVP Document Processor: Lead the development and deployment of our first usable document processing MVP within 2 months - this is our highest priority deliverable
• AI Model Optimization: Improve our contract analysis AI using the best available models (currently Google Gemini, but open to evaluating alternatives) to achieve 99% accuracy in extracting forms, tasks, and due dates
• AI-Accelerated MVP Development: Leverage AI coding agents to rapidly build and iterate on our document processing MVP, following the same methodology that's driven our recent breakthrough progress
• Production-Ready System: Deliver a robust, scalable document processing system that can handle real-world contract variations and edge cases
• Rapid Iteration Cycle: Establish fast feedback loops with real estate professionals to continuously improve accuracy and usability during MVP development

Medium-Term Innovation (2-8 months)

• Post-MVP Enhancement: Rapidly iterate on MVP feedback to add advanced document intelligence capabilities and handle complex contract variations
• Smart Form Generation: Develop intelligent systems that not only extract required forms but can pre-populate them with extracted contract data
• Deadline Intelligence: Create advanced due date tracking with predictive analytics, conflict detection, and automated calendar integration
• Multi-Document Processing: Scale the system to handle complex transactions with multiple related documents and cross-document data validation

Long-Term Vision (8+ months)

• Industry-Leading Document AI: Position SUBI as having the most sophisticated real estate document processing capabilities in the market
• Predictive Analytics: Build systems that can predict potential transaction issues based on contract analysis and historical data
• Integration Ecosystem: Create APIs that allow other real estate tools to leverage SUBI's document processing capabilities
• Machine Learning Evolution: Implement continuous learning systems that improve contract analysis accuracy over time

What Success Looks Like

Technical Excellence

• MVP Delivery: Successfully ship first usable document processing MVP within 2 months of start date
• 99% Accuracy Achievement: Achieve and maintain 99% accuracy in extracting forms, tasks, and due dates from real estate contracts
• Processing Speed: Optimize document analysis to process contracts in <30 seconds regardless of document complexity
• Production Reliability: Ensure document processing system handles real-world contract variations with minimal false positives

Team Development

• Team Growth: Successfully hire, onboard, and develop additional engineering team members
• Technical Leadership: Become the go-to technical decision-maker and mentor for the entire organization
• Process Excellence: Establish efficient development processes that scale with team growth
• Knowledge Sharing: Create comprehensive technical documentation and knowledge sharing practices

Business Impact

• Feature Delivery: Consistently deliver high-quality features that drive user engagement and business growth
• Technical Innovation: Drive the adoption of new technologies that provide competitive advantages
• Customer Success: Ensure platform reliability and performance that exceeds customer expectations
• Market Leadership: Position SUBI as the technical leader in real estate technology

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive Package

• Base Salary: $140,000 - $180,000 based on experience and location
• Equity: Equity package with high growth potential

Growth Opportunities

• Technical Leadership: Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a growing company
• Industry Impact: Become a recognized expert in real estate technology and workflow automation
• Team Building: Build and lead a world-class engineering team
• Equity Upside: Significant equity participation in company growth and success

Application Process

Required Submissions

1. Resume: Comprehensive resume highlighting relevant experience and technical leadership
2. Portfolio: GitHub profile and examples of complex technical projects you've led
3. Cover Letter: Brief explanation of your interest in real estate technology and technical leadership
4. Technical Examples: Specific examples of architectural decisions, team leadership, and technical challenges you've solved

What We're Looking For

• Technical Excellence: Demonstrated expertise in full-stack development and system architecture
• AI-Augmented Development: Daily fluency with AI coding agents - this is our standard operating procedure, not an experimental practice
• Do-er Leadership: Someone who leads from the front lines, building and shipping while scaling the team around them
• Early-Stage Mentality: Thrives in fast-paced, resource-conscious startup environments with the agility to wear multiple hats
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and creative approach to complex technical challenges
• Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including offshore team members
• Growth Mindset: Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning in a rapidly evolving technical landscape

Ready to Transform Real Estate Technology?

If you're passionate about building exceptional software, leading technical teams, and revolutionizing how real estate professionals manage their workflows, we want to hear from you. This is your opportunity to join a growing company at the forefront of real estate technology innovation.

Apply now and become the technical leader who shapes the future of real estate transaction management.