Senior Software Engineer, Back-end (LatAm)

Homeward · Latin America · Engineering

Posted 2026-11-03

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About the opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.

Due to current team needs, we are only accepting candidates based in Latin America. This is intended to be a long-term contract position.

In this role you will:

Develop, design, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools in agile environment

Write automated unit and integration tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines

Participate in code reviews to assess overall code quality and flexibility

Have a good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies, specifically scrum and/or Kanban

Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with peers in crafting and implementing the technical vision

Communicate and work effectively with distributed cross functional teams

Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur with peers - follow through on details and drive issues to closure

Work towards continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team

Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team

Leverage AI coding assistants and tools to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered product features, including with LLM API integrations, RAG pipelines, and AI-driven automation

What you’ll bring:

6+ years of non-internship, professional back-end development experience

Deep understanding of web development and best practices

Strong organizational skills and discipline in both following and appropriately challenging conventions

Scrappy determination and flexibility (from updating email templates to building complex web apps)

A build, test, learn mindset, with a bias toward quick, calculated action and a focus on business outcomes

Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback

Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.), and the judgment to review and verify what they produce.

You read code as well as you write it. You regularly review others’ pull requests and can spot bugs, edge cases, performance problems and design issues in code you didn’t write.

Experience with background jobs and asynchronous processing (e.g., Celery) designed to be safe to retry.

Experience integrating third-party APIs and partner data: auth, retries, rate limits, webhooks, and validating data you don’t control.

Clear written and spoken English; comfortable talking through your reasoning with a US-based team.

Nice-to-have:

Production experience with LLM APIs, including prompt design and context management

Familiarity with hexagonal / ports-and-adapters architecture or domain-driven design

Real estate, mortgage or prop-tech experience

Compensation:

Competitive hourly rate

Computer reimbursement

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