Senior Software Engineer

Please note that this role is full-time in-office and based in Boston, MA.

Groma's mission is to allow everyone to own their bit of the world. We accomplish this via GromaCoin, an on-chain asset that represents diversified ownership in the Groma Real Estate Trust, a growing portfolio of real estate that currently includes 130+ buildings. Groma focuses on purchasing in the massive but historically overlooked small unit count multifamily sector, which includes millions of 2-40 unit buildings across the U.S. Our property technology platform uses AI and IoT to bring new efficiencies tothese buildings and ultimately enables us to acquire, upgrade, and operate them efficiently at scale. Our investor technology platform makes owning these assets accessible to a broad array of investors, with bespoke vehicles available to institutional and family office investors and our flagship vehicle available to everyone, with a special focus on enabling ownership for the residents in our buildings. Visit www.groma.com to learn more about us.
About the Role

This senior-level role will join a small team of software engineers that build the digital infrastructure and products that power the company. These primarily include:

• Tools that are designed to make managing our large and growing real estate portfolio highly efficient for our internal staff. These are used to address the tactical challenges that arise from managing distributed real estate assets as efficiently as possible while still ensuring the best possible resident experience. We use many standard technology solutions, but also IoT smart home technology and AI to solve and optimize many of our resident and maintenance tasks.
• Products that enable investors to initiate and manage their investments into Groma's real estate funds. A primary goal of Groma is to make real estate work better for everyone, which includes expanding ownership opportunities with audiences ranging from institutional investors to the residents in our buildings.
• Infrastructure to express shares in the Groma Real Estate Trust in a blockchain environment. Blockchain networks represent a powerful tool for us to increase transparency, enable greater investor access, and, over time, to unlock new functionality to enable our holders to get the most possible value out of owning real estate. Notably, this includes finding ways to enable GromaCoin to be used in current and emergency decentralized finance applications.

• Startup interest. We're an early stage company and still have a lot left to figure out. There will be lots of ups and down and the team and broader company will make pivots as we go. Flexibility is important - we don't yet have all of the answers yet and you'll be a part of finding them.
• Product mindset. As a startup, we need to be fast to identify and solve problems across the business. We do not have a product team, so we expect engineers to be comfortable working directly with stakeholders throughout the business to understand their needs and build pragmatic solutions to them.
• Technical breadth. As a small team, it's highly valuable for each member to be able to operate across the entirety of our technology stack. This of course means being able to work on backend and frontend development, but also to be willing to work on our blockchain infrastructure or occasionally even just do some old-fashioned spreadsheet hacking.
• Desire to move fast. As an engineering team, we care about building reliable, secure, and easily-maintainable systems, but also recognize the need to move very quickly to meet the needs of a fast-moving startup. This means finding the right balance between quality and delivery speed. An increasing part of this is finding ways to effectively use AI-powered coding tools to do our jobs more effectively.

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, Solidity
• Frameworks: Django, React
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Postgres, Ethereum

• We approach our work with pragmatic idealism that enables us to focus on our desire to make the world a better place in ways big and small while also being open to intelligent compromises that accelerate us on our path to serve our broader societal goals.
• Our whole team believes strongly that the challenges we are trying to solve require effective teams, not individual heroes.
• We have complex conversations well. We sit at the intersection of housing and blockchain policy, both nuanced topics with real world impacts. We pride ourselves on being thoughtful, seeking the best solutions to real world challenges, and implementing them effectively in the real world.

• You want to work in a partially or fully remote environment. We take great care to enable flexibility for team members, but our default will always be to be in office together.
• You just want to write code and are less interested in learning about the business. We expect engineers to spend lots of time with stakeholders figuring out what the right problems are to solve (i.e. doing "product" work), then building the solutions to them.
• Job titles are important to you or you're looking for a quick pathway into engineering management. We're a small, very flat organization and intend to keep it that way for the foreseeable future. That said, there are many other types of leadership opportunities available.
• You want a highly predictable job. We're a startup and there have been and will continue to be lots of twists and turns in our story - we change direction quickly and throw a lot of things against the wall to see what sticks.

• Competitive salary for the Boston area
• Early stage equity
• 5% 401k match
• 100% employer-paid premiums for high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Fully covered commuter passes for bus, subway, boat, or commuter rail
• Unlimited PTO
• 13 official company holidays
• 1 floating holiday: We recognize that there are lots of holidays that are meaningful to different people in different ways and we want to celebrate that by enabling team members to have the time/space to commemorate those days however is appropriate, and using it as an opportunity - if they'd like to - to share the meaning of that day with the broader team
• A beautiful office in downtown Boston with a gym, locker rooms, game room, rooftop garden, and at least one catered lunch and breakfast per week