Software Engineer

orchard; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Job summary

Orchard, based in New York, seeks a software engineer to build and maintain the services powering its website and internal tooling. You’ll work across backend and frontend with Python, Postgres, OpenSearch on the backend and Qwik/TypeScript on the frontend, collaborating with product and design to ship scalable features.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast delivery, and practical AI-assisted coding while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong skills in Python, TypeScript, or Go, with API and data modeling knowledge.
• Experience with AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, or CircleCI is a plus.
• Experience directing AI coding tools effectively.
• Low-ego, ownership mindset; proactive and collaborative.
• Interest in a hands-on team where engineers ship quickly and have real impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the services and interfaces that power Orchard's website and internal tools.
• Work with product and design to turn ideas into clear, well-scoped projects.
• Debug and improve core services to be faster and more reliable for national growth in 12–18 months.
• Ensure our systems scale smoothly as our user base grows.
• Write clean, tested code that's easy to understand and maintain.
• Help improve developer workflows, testing, and documentation.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the systems you build.
• Work with a small team that values communication, trust, and practical solutions.
• Use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex in daily workflow.
• Comfortable reviewing code you didn't write.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

APIs

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

Postgres

SQL

Kafka

Airflow

Docker

CircleCI

Job description

About Orchard

Orchard is transforming the way people buy and sell their homes. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, easy. Every year in the U.S., $1.5 trillion of single family homes transact, generating over $120 billion of fees in a process that has changed little in decades. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard offers a modern alternative, making one of life's biggest decisions -- the sale and purchase of a home -so stress free, fair and simple that people cannot imagine any other way. Orchard is headquartered in New York City, has 150+ employees, a network of 600 agents and has grown nearly 2x year over the last 2 years. We have raised equity financing from top tier investors including: Firstmark, Accomplice, Revolution Growth, Navitas and Juxtapose.

About the Role

Orchard's engineering team values clarity, collaboration, and ownership. Our team builds the systems behind Orchard's website and the tools that help agents reach new customers. We focus on helping people explore homes, book consultations, and connect with our agents. Our site serves over 150k unique visitors each month and sees about 700k pageviews. The team partners closely with marketing, product, and design to support new campaigns, track performance, and ensure the site is fast and reliable at scale.

You’ll work on the systems that make this possible - backend, frontend, or both, depending on where the work takes you. That means building and improving APIs, data services, and integrations that support both customers and agents. Your work will touch many parts of the systems our team owns. We build and maintain the services that bring new customers into Orchard, from the public website and intake flows, to scheduling and consultation booking. We also support the tools that help our agents work with those customers, like managing and syncing leads, powering outreach, and maintaining privacy and consent systems that keep customer data safe and compliant.

You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business stakeholders to plan and ship projects. The team is small and moves quickly, so you’ll have real ownership and visibility in your work. Most of our engineering work today is agent-driven: we use tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex daily, and the job is less about typing code yourself and more about scoping the work well, directing AI tools effectively, and catching it when they get something wrong. We're looking for engineers who are good at that loop, not just comfortable with AI tools existing.

This is a full-time role that will report into our Senior Software Engineer and be based out of the New York office, where we are in office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

What You’ll Do Here

Build and maintain the services and interfaces that power Orchard's website and internal tools. Most of our stack uses Qwik on the frontend and Python with Postgres and OpenSearch on the backend, though some other services use React and TypeScript.

Work with product and design to turn ideas into clear, well-scoped projects.

Debug and improve core services to make them faster and more reliable as we prepare for national growth over the next 12-18 months.

Ensure our systems can scale smoothly as our user base continues to grow.

Write clean, tested code that's easy to understand and maintain.

Help improve developer workflows, testing, and documentation.

Take part in on-call rotations and own the systems you build.

Work with a small team that values communication, trust, and practical solutions.

Use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex as part of your daily workflow to build and ship features efficiently.

Comfortable reviewing code you didn't write.

We'd Love to Hear From You if You Have

• At least 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Strong skills in at least one language relevant to our stack (Python, TypeScript, or Go), with solid knowledge of APIs and data modeling.
• Experience with tools like AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, or CircleCI is a plus.
• Experience directing AI coding tools effectively.
• A low-ego, problem-solving mindset. You take ownership, improve what you touch, and ask for help when something doesn't add up.
• Interest in a hands-on team where engineers ship quickly and have real impact.

For NYC residents only: The pay range for this position in New York City is $130,000-$150,000/year. The actual base pay offered may vary within the range provided depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Stock options and other incentive pay may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law. Please note t