Lead Software Engineer

SYNC; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkan Homes is building an internal software platform to connect financial, operational, construction, and client workflows. We seek a Lead Software Engineer to own this initiative and shape how technology supports our growth.

You will work directly with a Co-CEO to understand operations and translate requirements into working software. This hands-on role involves leading product discovery, system design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record taking a project from unclear business problems to production systems.
• Strong experience building and launching modern web applications.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, React/Next.js, and PostgreSQL; Python in existing engine.
• Experience integrating with third-party services and APIs.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Codex.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Experience working with business owners, executives, or nontechnical stakeholders.
• Startup, small-business, or freelance background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery, system design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Own software projects end-to-end from concept to production.
• Mentor and recruit additional developers as the team grows.
• Build the cash-flow forecasting platform and dashboards atop it.
• Develop internal AI workflows and automation across email, Slack, and other systems.
• Create a client-facing portal for home selections and construction progress.

Skills

5+ years experience

End-to-end product development

Web applications

TypeScript

Python

AI tooling

English communication

Leadership

Startup experience

Education

No degree required

Tools

TypeScript

React/Next.js

PostgreSQL

Python

Job description

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.

About the Role

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.

How We Work With AI

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 Project

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 TypeScript, 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 experience strongly preferred.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring developers preferred.
• A college degree is not required.

The Person We Are Looking For

• High agency: You take ownership, move work forward, and solve problems without waiting for detailed instructions.
• Business sense: You understand that software has to produce practical business value, not just demonstrate technical sophistication.
• Sound judgment: You can weigh competing priorities, challenge weak assumptions, and make sensible decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear communication: You can explain complex ideas to nontechnical people and work well with business leaders and employees.
• Adaptability: You're comfortable in a fast-changing environment and adjust as new information arrives.
• Curiosity: You follow developments in web development, AI, and agentic workflows.
• Willingness to learn: You're prepared to learn the home-building business alongside the technical work.
• Leadership potential: You can start as an individual contributor and grow into leading a team.

What Success Looks Like

• Month 1–2: You understand how Arkan plans and finances projects well enough to challenge the requirements, not just implement them.
• Month 3: The cash-flow model runs in the application and reconciles to our existing spreadsheets on live projects.
• Month 4–6: Leadership makes weekly capital and scheduling decisions from the application rather than the spreadsheet, and the first departmental views are in daily use.
• Throughout: You establish an organized, documented, sustainable approach to how software gets built here — one a second and third engineer can join without friction.
• Full-time employment, fully remote.
• Reports directly to a Co-CEO.
• Initially an individual-contributor role, with the opportunity to build and lead a