Senior Solutions Engineer

HW media; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

Paid Parental Leave

Hybrid/remote work options

Job summary

HousingWire is seeking a sales engineer to bridge data products and client needs in a fast-growing housing tech team. You will lead technical evaluations, articulate data delivery options, and drive deals from discovery to close.

You craft clear documentation, train customers, and ensure successful production rollouts while feeding product with real-world feedback. A background in data sales, strong SQL, Python, and proven deal execution at six figures+ is essential.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in a sales engineering or similar client-facing technical role—specifically selling data, not just software.
• Strong SQL and enough Python to do real work with a prospect file on the spot.
• Experience carrying technical deals through the full cycle—discovery to close—at six figures and above.
• The ability to walk into a client conversation with no warm-up and leave with their trust and a clear next step.
• Writing that people actually want to read. You'll produce a lot of it.

Responsibilities

• Get in front of prospects early and figure out what they actually need. Work with Sales to run evaluations and define success criteria.
• Know our delivery options cold (API, data share, bulk) and be direct about which one fits and which one doesn't.
• Work through licensing and compliance issues with finance and sales before they become deal blockers.
• When a customer signs, you don't hand them off. You see it through – credentials, schema mapping, backfill, reconciliation, the whole thing.
• Be the person they call when something breaks or doesn't look right. Get to the bottom of it before looping in engineering.
• Set clients up to move on their own—good documentation, working examples, and sandbox access so they're not waiting on us for every step.
• Write the frameworks, templates, and tools that make the next evaluation faster and more predictable than the last one.
• Put together the documentation customers actually need: what the data is, where it comes from, what it doesn't cover, and how to use it.
• Know the competitive landscape well enough to have an honest conversation about where we win and where we don't.
• When we lose a deal or a customer hits a wall, make sure that signal gets back to product in a way that's specific and actionable.

Skills

Sales engineering

SQL

Python

Deal lifecycle

Client communication

Technical writing

Job description

About the Company and Role

HousingWire is the most trusted source for news, data, and insights in the housing market. Through its media, data, events, and performance intelligence platforms, HousingWire helps housing professionals make better decisions, faster. HousingWire Data powers one of the most extensive real estate and housing datasets across the nation, capturing high-frequency, real-time housing market activity and translating it into capabilities across the HousingWire platform – as well as powering clients to build data-driven businesses.

What you'll do

Win the deal

• Get in front of prospects early and figure out what they actually need. Work with Sales to run evaluations and define success criteria.
• Know our delivery options cold (API, data share, bulk) and be direct about which one fits and which one doesn't.
• Work through licensing and compliance issues with finance and sales before they become deal blockers.

Take care of clients

• When a customer signs, you don't hand them off. You see it through – credentials, schema mapping, backfill, reconciliation, the whole thing.
• Be the person they call when something breaks or doesn't look right. Get to the bottom of it before looping in engineering.
• Set clients up to move on their own—good documentation, working examples, and sandbox access so they're not waiting on us for every step.

Build something that lasts

• Write the frameworks, templates, and tools that make the next evaluation faster and more predictable than the last one.
• Put together the documentation customers actually need: what the data is, where it comes from, what it doesn't cover, and how to use it.
• Know the competitive landscape well enough to have an honest conversation about where we win and where we don't.
• When we lose a deal or a customer hits a wall, make sure that signal gets back to product in a way that's specific and actionable.

Who you are

The right team member will have the unique ability to jump between multiple responsibilities with grace – holding a sales conversation, running a live data evaluation, getting a customer to production, and writing the process playbook to scale this business line. You're also someone clients genuinely like working with because you add value and build relationships. You'll need

• At least 5 years in a sales engineering or similar client-facing technical role—specifically selling data, not just software.
• Strong SQL and enough Python to do real work with a prospect file on the spot.
• Experience carrying technical deals through the full cycle—discovery to close—at six figures and above.
• The ability to walk into a client conversation with no warm-up and leave with their trust and a clear next step.
• Writing that people actually want to read. You'll produce a lot of it.

Helpful but not required

• You've been the first or second SE at a company before.
• You know US real estate or mortgage data—assessor/recorder records, deeds, liens, MLS, AVMs, parcel data, foreclosure pipelines.
• You've worked inside Snowflake data sharing, Databricks Delta Sharing, or similar at real scale.
• You've sat on the customer side—at a lender, servicer, SFR shop, PropTech company, or carrier.

Compensation & benefits

• Position level: Individual contributor.
• Salary range: $110,000-120,000 base, depending on experience.
• Bonus: Eligible for performance-based bonus. 25% of gross salary.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and ancillary coverage options.
• Unlimited PTO plus Paid Parental Leave.
• Hybrid/remote work options, depending on location