Senior Platform Engineer — Urban Housing Tech | Equity

Cedar; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity ownership

Healthcare, dental, and vision

Opportunity to shape a foundational平台

Job summary

Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery, combining architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to speed up land-to-design-and-construction processes. We design real buildings and scale software systems that power them.

Senior Software Engineer applicants will architect and build the core platform powering Cedar’s automation, decisions, and delivery workflows, owning systems end-to-end and translating real-world constraints into robust software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience designing and operating production systems
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js; experience with Next.js and React a plus
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational data modeling
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), APIs, and data pipelines
• Ability to reason about system architecture, performance, and trade-offs
• Bonus: experience with distributed systems, developer platforms, or applied ML

Responsibilities

• Design and build core platform services, APIs, and internal tools
• Own systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, reliability, and iteration
• Translate complex domain logic (zoning, design constraints, workflows) into robust software abstractions
• Leverage AI tools to increase development velocity and iterate quickly on new and existing features
• Improve performance, scalability, and developer velocity
• Partner with architects and product teams to operationalize domain expertise into software
• Evaluate and adopt the latest AI development tools, and translate what works into standards and practices for a growing team
• Ship continuously in a fast‑moving product environment

Skills

Systems thinking

Ambiguity handling

Platform mindset

Collaboration

Outcome-driven

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Next.js

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

Job description

Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery, combining architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to speed up land-to-design-and-construction processes. We design real buildings and scale software systems that power them.

Senior Software Engineer applicants will architect and build the core platform powering Cedar’s automation, decisions, and delivery workflows, owning systems end-to-end and translating real-world constraints into robust software.