Senior Software Engineer - Applied AI

4-6 years of professional back-end development experience, ideally in a fast-moving environment

Hands-on experience building or operating AI/ML systems in production, and a real interest in the practical side of it - reliability, performance, cost, and safety

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

Strong experience with Python and a back-end framework such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI

Solid grounding in web development best practices - REST APIs, asynchronous task management, and sound data management

Good judgment on the trade-offs between reliability, latency, cost, quality, and maintainability, and the willingness to make the call

Incredibly strong ownership of delivering the right solutions at a high quality

Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to make complex things clear to others

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

Scrappy and flexible - from updating an email template to building a complex web app, you do what the team needs and you're eager to learn along the way

General curiosity and comfort navigating a fast-changing AI landscape

Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools

THE GOLDEN RULE . It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS . We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM . Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.