Senior Software Engineer

Help reinvent how housing gets designed, permitted, and built in America.

Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery.

We combine architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to dramatically accelerate how projects move from land acquisition to approved designs and construction.

The result: faster timelines, higher quality, lower risk, and more housing in the cities that need it most.

Our team blends architects, engineers, and product builders.

We design real buildings — and we build the software systems that make great architecture scalable.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help architect and build the core platform that powers Cedar’s automation, decision-making, and delivery workflows.

You’ll own meaningful systems end-to-end and work closely with architects and product leaders to translate real-world constraints into scalable software.

This is not a narrow feature role.

You’ll be shaping foundational architecture, data models, and developer workflows that compound across every project.

You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, product, and operations teams.

We strongly prefer candidates who can share recent solo-developed projects or meaningful open source contributions.

It gives us a clear signal of how you think and build, and lets us skip the usual technical interview gauntlet.

• Design and build core platform services, APIs, and internal tools
• Own systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, reliability, and iteration
• Translate complex domain logic (zoning, design constraints, workflows) into robust software abstractions
• Leverage AI tools to increase development velocity and iterate quickly on new and existing features
• Improve performance, scalability, and developer velocity
• Partner with architects and product teams to operationalize domain expertise into software