Founding Full Stack Engineer

6 days ago

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Zuma

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Zuma is a company that specializes in enhancing lead-to-lease conversion rates for multifamily properties using its AI-powered assistant. Zuma's solutions involve a combination of AI-driven technology and human leasing agents to improve response times, lead qualification, and overall conversion rates. Their AI assistant, named Kelsey, offers personalized chats, rapid responses, and integrates seamlessly with existing property management systems like Yardi, Realpage, and Entrata. This enables property management companies to efficiently manage leads and empower their teams to focus more on closing deals and providing excellent service to prospective tenants. Zuma supports properties of all types, from luxury Class A to affordable housing, with customizable workflows and brand voice maintenance for each client's unique needs.

11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏠 Real Estate

💰 $6.7M Seed Round on 2021-11

📋 Description

• About Zuma • Zuma is pioneering the future of agentic AI and our focus is to transform the rental market experience for consumers and property manager alike. • Our innovative platform is engineered from the ground up to boost operations efficiency and enhance support capabilities for property management business across the US and Canada, a ~$200B market. • Off the back of our Series-A in early 2024, Zuma is scaling rapidly. • Achieving our vision requires a team of passionate, innovative individuals eager to leverage technology to redefine customer-business interactions. • We're on the hunt for exceptional talent ready to join our mission and contribute to building a groundbreaking technology that reshapes how businesses engage with customers. • Zuma has raised over $17M in funding to date and has support from world-renowned investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, King River, Range Ventures, and distinguished angel investors like YC’s former COO, Qasar Younis. • About the Role • As our Founding Full Stack Engineer based in the US, you will be a cornerstone of our engineering organization, reporting to the Head of Engineering. • This is a pivotal role where you'll lead critical system rewrites, architect scalable foundations for our AI platform, and establish the technical standards that will shape our engineering culture for years to come. • You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge LLM technology and practical business applications, creating sophisticated systems that power our AI leasing agent while building self-serve experiences that enable rapid customer onboarding. • As our first US-based engineer, you'll bridge the gap between our product vision and technical implementation, mentoring our India-based team and driving technical excellence across the organization. • This role offers a rare opportunity to directly influence how we architect the next generation of our platform. • You'll tackle projects like rebuilding our onboarding/configuration system to be self-serve, creating robust analytics infrastructure to measure AI performance, and reimagining our integration framework to connect seamlessly with customer systems. • Your work will significantly reduce manual engineering overhead while enabling rapid scaling of our customer base.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field • 10+ years of experience in full stack software development • Strong expertise in both frontend (React, TypeScript) and backend (Node.js, Python) development • Experience working with LLMs or AI systems at scale is highly valuable • Proven track record of building scalable, production-grade systems • Strong understanding of API development, system architecture, and cloud infrastructure • Experience mentoring engineers and establishing engineering best practices • Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across time zones • Ability to balance technical innovation with pragmatic delivery • Startup experience and comfort with ambiguity

🏖️ Benefits

• Great health insurance, dental, and vision. • Gym and workspace stipends. • Computer and workspace enhancements. • Unlimited PTO. • Company off-sites with the team. • Opportunity to play a critical role in building the foundations of the company and Engineering culture.