Homeward

Applied AI Engineer

Austin, TX

H1B sponsorship availableDetected 21 days ago

PythonDjangoFastAPIFlaskCode ReviewCI/CDRESTMachine LearningLLMsRAGCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

About Homeward Homeward takes the "what ifs" out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience.
Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process.
This role reports to the SVP, Technology.

Have an immediate impact on how Homeward builds with AI
Design, build, and maintain AI-powered features in our products, including LLM API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and AI-driven automation across our customer, agent, and operations tools
Build and improve shared tooling and reusable components that make it easier for teams across tech to access, integrate, and operate LLMs in production
Prototype solutions quickly, then work with peers and senior engineers to harden them into something we can ship and maintain
Help shape the patterns and practices for building with AI at Homeward, and make the right way the easy way for the rest of the team
Write automated unit and integration tests to support our CI pipelines, and participate in code reviews
Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to make sure what we build is useful, well-documented, and easy to adopt
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
A build, test, learn mindset with a bias toward action and a focus on business outcomes
We work in tech and build solutions for real estate.

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

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage - with company contributions towards premiums.
Meaningful time off - including 20 days of paid vacation, 5 sick days, 12 company holidays, and 2 floating holidays.
Generous paid parental leave of up to 13 weeks.

About Homeward
Homeward takes the "what ifs" out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience.
We're a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.
Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.
We're a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries -
Use AI coding assistants (Claude, Copilot) as a natural part of your daily workflow, and help the team get more out of them
Whether we're dealing with colleagues or customers, we don't prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
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.

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