Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer

Renting should be faster, fairer, and less stressful than it is. We're the infrastructure that makes that happen. Four million users. 300+ real estate company and MLS partnerships. Ten years of consistent growth. From applications and screening to payments and lease management, the full rental journey runs on Rent Spree. Recognized by Forbes as a Best Startup Employer and by Built In Seattle as a Best Place to Work.

Rent Spree is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the development of core consumer and business-facing product experiences . In this role, you’ll be responsible for building and evolving high-impact features end-to-end - from backend APIs to polished interfaces - with an emphasis on delivering fast, intuitive, and reliable experiences for our users.

As a technical leader, you’ll help set the architectural direction, lead complex initiatives from idea to delivery, mentor engineers, and work closely with product, design, and engineering teams and leaders to build intuitive, performant, and reliable experiences for millions of users.

This position is hybrid (2 days/week) in our Seattle office.

• Lead end-to-end development of user-facing features across web and backend systems
• Champion back-end architecture, performance, and accessibility best practices
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate customer needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions
• Drive technical decision-making and execution on complex initiatives
• Contribute to and shape our engineering standards, architecture, and tooling
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to the growth of engineering culture and technical excellence
• Balance delivery speed and quality, making pragmatic choices around trade-offs
• Help evolve our backend infrastructure and testing strategies

Our job descriptions evolve with our business needs and priorities. Your role may include other tasks, projects, and team support.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including leadership on high-impact projects
• Proven ability to ship production features end-to-end , including frontend UI, APIs, and backend services
• Deep expertise in modern back-end technologies (Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot, Node.js, GraphQL/REST APIs, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, cloud platforms)
• Proven ability to drive technical direction and architecture in cross-functional settings across multiple teams
• Strong product sense and empathy for end users
• Experience mentoring engineers and helping grow technical capabilities on a team
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving requirements

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure
• Track record of delivering consumer-scale web applications
• Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and product iteration cycles
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production readiness best practices

How we work and who we are comes down to six guiding principles. These are the principles we hire for and hold ourselves to:

• Customer obsession :
  Our customers' needs come first. Not eventually, not when it's convenient. Every decision runs through one question: does this make things better for the people who depend on us?
• Take action, forge solutions :
  When there's a problem, we don't wait for permission to solve it. We move with urgency, think past the obvious fix, and build something that holds.
• Be candid, yet respectful: Say what you think. Name the problem. Challenge the idea. We don't do polite silence, but we also don't do cheap shots. Honest, direct, respectful.
• Disagree, then commit: The best decisions come from real…