Lead Software Engineer

Arkan Homes is a growing residential development and home-building company based in Metro

Atlanta. We build and sell homes, and we run the development economics behind them — land

acquisition, construction financing, partnership structures, and portfolio-level cash planning.

We are building an internal software platform that connects our financial, operational,

construction, and client-facing workflows. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take

ownership of that initiative and shape how technology supports the company as it grows.

You will work directly with a Co-CEO (background in computer science) and other business

leaders to understand our operations, identify what's worth building, and turn business

requirements into working software.

This is a hands-on role. You will lead product discovery, system design, development,

deployment, and ongoing improvement. As our software needs and development team grow,

you will help hire and mentor additional developers.

We use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows daily, and we expect this role to

ship at a pace that would normally take a small team. Leadership is technical and prototypes

things directly, but production systems are designed, built, and owned by engineers.

We're looking for someone who is genuinely good at working this way — using these tools with

judgment, reviewing their output critically, and knowing where they help and where they don't. If

you consider AI tooling a distraction from real engineering, this isn't the right fit.

The first major project is a cash-flow forecasting platform, and it will become the foundation of

the broader internal system. It is real modeling work: multi-year project timelines,

construction-loan draws and interest, land and development spend curves, per-lot economics,

partnership waterfalls and IRR, and consolidated company-level forecasting across an entire

portfolio of projects.

The model currently lives in a spreadsheet system we've outgrown. We have already written a

detailed requirements package for the replacement — business rules, data model, inputs,

outputs, validation rules, and acceptance fixtures. You won't be starting from a blank page or

guessing at the finance.

Later work may include company and departmental dashboards, workflow automation, tools that

surface unanswered client and vendor communications, and a client portal for home selections

and construction progress.

• Work closely with company leadership and employees to understand business processes, challenges, and requirements.
• Own software projects end to end — concept, design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Help leadership determine what should be built, what should not be built, and how systems should be structured.
• Build the cash-flow forecasting platform, then the dashboards and departmental views that sit on top of it.
• Build internal AI workflows and approval-based automations that connect email, Slack, and other business systems — recommending or preparing updates while keeping people in control of final decisions.
• Help build a client-facing portal for home selections and construction progress.
• Help recruit, onboarding, and mentor additional developers as the team expands.

• Roughly 5+ years of professional software-development experience.
• A track record of taking a project from an unclear business problem to a working production system — not just implementing tickets someone else wrote.
• Strong experience building and launching modern web applications.
• Comfortable across the stack: we lean Type Script, React/Next.js, and Postgres, and the existing financial engine is Python. We're open to a well-argued alternative, but you modeling.
• Experience integrating applications with third-party services and APIs.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex,
• Understanding of how AI can be incorporated into real business workflows.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experience working directly with business owners, executives, or nontechnical stakeholders.
• Startup, small-business, consulting, or freelance…