Founding Engineer; Equity

Founding Engineer — Architecture & Scale

Location:

US Remote (Austin based preferred)

Reports to:

Founder/CEO

Compensation: $125K-$175K plus up to 3% equity

Radius is building infrastructure for a part of the housing market the travel stack largely ignores: midterm stays for traveling professionals, relocations, and insurance-displacement housing.

We already have:

• a working product
• paying customers
• active marketplace supply
• an ongoing pilot with a major insurance housing company

The founding team brings deep experience across Prop Tech, consulting, private equity, and corporate housing operations — including multiple years directly operating a corporate housing business. We understand the operational pain points behind the workflows we’re building for.

We’re now at the stage where architecture decisions materially matter. The next phase is less about “building an MVP” and more about building systems that scale reliably across inventory, bookings, integrations, and payments.

You’ll work directly with the founders in a small, highly collaborative team. Founders here ship code, stay close to customers, and make decisions quickly. The founding team are brothers, which we think creates unusually strong alignment, trust, and long‑term thinking around how the company is built.

This is an individual contributor role focused on building, architecture, and execution — not people management. Over time, there’s room for the role to evolve into broader technical leadership as the team scales.

We care more about sustained execution than heroics.

We’re pragmatic, product-oriented, and highly collaborative. We value engineers who can think deeply about systems while still moving quickly and staying close to users.

We optimize for:

• clear ownership
• low ego
• fast iteration
• practical decision‑making
• systems that stay understandable as they grow

We’re flexible about how people organize their work and time. We care much more about outcomes, reliability, and momentum than performative hustle.

Our current stack:

• Django 5.1 + DRF
• Postgres 16
• React 19 / Vite / Tailwind
• Stripe Connect

The product works today. The next challenge is building the infrastructure that makes the next 10x phase feel operationally boring and reliable.

You’ll take ownership of problems like:

Today:
Leaflet / Mapbox + Supercluster

Next: scalable geo‑query infrastructure using tools like PostGIS and Open Search, with fast map interactions across large inventory sets.

Moving long‑running workflows and webhook processing into a reliable async architecture with strong operational discipline around retries, observability, and failure handling.

Designing reliable availability reconciliation across OTA drift, direct bookings, and external integrations — including locking strategies, idempotency, and consistency guarantees.

Building resilient Stripe Connect workflows for installment payments, payouts, reconciliation, and replayable webhook processing.

As LLM‑assisted development speeds up iteration, maintaining trust in the system matters more — not less. We care about strong automated testing, regression detection, safe deploys, and reducing the blast radius of changes.

Improving CI/CD, observability, logging, and deployment workflows using declarative infrastructure and Git Ops‑style practices (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, or similar).

As insurance and enterprise workloads grow, we expect new scaling and permissioning challenges around bursty traffic patterns and account isolation. This is likely a later‑stage optimization problem, but we want someone who naturally thinks ahead about those tradeoffs.

The technologies above are directional, not predetermined. We care more about sound engineering judgment than attachment to specific tools.

You’ll also participate in product discussions and customer conversations. We want engineering tightly connected to the operational realities of the platform.

• Push code to production
• Understand…