Software Engineer, Home Design Experience

Higharc; Durham (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible PTO

Maternity/paternity leave

401K

Home office stipend

Job summary

Higharc seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Home Design Experience app, a browser-based 3D tool. You’ll own architectural decisions, work across frontend, state, and services, and drive production delivery while mentoring others.

You’ll partner with product and design leads to define the path forward and ship customer-ready features with AI-supported interactions. You’ll collaborate with a platform team to establish reusable foundations and patterns, ensuring fast, reliable delivery

Qualifications

• Track record architecting, building, and shipping substantial web applications from initial implementation to production.
• Deep hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web app architecture, including state, API integration, performance, and maintainability.
• Strong plus: hands-on Three.js and browser-based 3D applications, especially CAD tools.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-forward development and for building AI-supported experiences.
• Ability to make independent technical decisions in partnership with product/design leads.
• Judgment to balance immediate product delivery with generalization for reuse.
• Experience mentoring and guiding less experienced engineers.
• Growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity in an evolving product area.
• Strong design and craft instincts, even if not the designer on the team.

Responsibilities

• Prototype new home-design workflows rapidly and turn successful ideas into customer-ready software.
• Lead development of interactive 3D home design workflows, tying UI, design data, and real-time 3D scene into a responsive experience with AI-enabled interactions.
• Own architecture and delivery from prototypes to production, including frontend, state, and service integration.
• Partner with product/UX leads to challenge assumptions, identify risks, and decide what to build next.
• Implement critical pieces personally to maintain delivery momentum and guide teammates through code reviews.
• Collaborate with platform team to reuse and document shared foundations across Higharc products.
• Mentor less experienced engineers through pairing and technical guidance.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AI-forward development

Mentoring

Architecting web apps

Design & craft

Tools

Three.js

Job description

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors: industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Higharc is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture and delivery of our Home Design Experience application, a browser-based 3D tool that lets anyone design a home. You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and serve as the primary technical partner to the team’s product/UX lead.

As the HDE team’s most experienced engineer, you’ll make consequential technical decisions, write production code, and help other engineers deliver. Your immediate focus will be getting the application into customers’ hands. Along the way, you’ll partner with our platform team to establish shared foundations and patterns that other Higharc applications can reuse.

What You'll Do

You’ll need to move fast, make good calls under ambiguity, and turn rough product ideas into working software that customers can pick up and use without a manual. You'll work across the primary UI as well as AI-supported and agentic experiences, and you'll partner with the other staff-level engineers at Higharc to give the company's technical strategy real shape.

Expect to:

• Rapidly prototype new home design workflows and turn the ones that land into customer-ready software

• Lead development of interactive 3D home design workflows, connecting the application UI, design data, and real-time 3D scene into a responsive experience. Build AI-supported and agentic interactions that help users design their homes.

• Own application architecture and technical delivery from early prototypes through production. Make decisions across the frontend, application state, and service integration, including performance, reliability, and testing.

• Be an independent technical partner to the product/UX lead: challenge assumptions, identify risks early, propose alternatives, and help decide what to build next.

• Turn ambiguous goals into concrete implementation plans, resolve technical unknowns through working code, and implement the critical pieces yourself to keep delivery moving.

• Partner with the platform team to use and improve shared application foundations. Identify which patterns should be reused across Higharc and help implement and document them, keeping immediate product delivery central to those decisions.

• Help less experienced engineers take ownership through pairing, code review, and clear technical guidance. Establish patterns they can confidently extend.

About You

You’ve shipped products that solve genuinely hard problems in a way that feels effortless to the end user, and you know how much unglamorous work sits behind that kind of simplicity. You're comfortable being the most senior engineer in the room without needing everything decided before you start building, and you know how to narrow scope, ship useful increments, and make technical decisions that support continued delivery.

You have:

• A track record of personally architecting, building, and shipping substantial web applications, with responsibility for technical decisions from initial implementation through production use.

• Deep hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web application architecture, including application state, API integration, performance, and maintainability.

• A strong plus: hands-on experience with Three.js and browser-based 3D applications, especially design or CAD tools. You’ll be helping people design homes in 3D, so experience making complex spatial interactions intuitive is particularly valuable.

• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-forward development and for building AI-supported or agentic product experiences

• Experience making technical decisions independently in partnership with a product or design lead. You can explain tradeoffs, challenge a proposed approach constructively, and commit to a path forward.

• Sound judgment about what to build for the immediate product and what to generalize for reuse, with experience collaborating across application and platform teams.

• Experience helping less experienced engineers deliver through implementation, mentoring, and technical guidance.

• A growth mindset and real ease with ambiguity, on a team and product area that's still being defined

• Strong instincts for design and craft, even though you're not the designer on the team

Working at Higharc

Remote work and travel: Our company is entirely remote, and has been since we were founded in 2018. Remote work means more time with family, less time commuting, and the flexibility to blend work and life. We value in-person collaboration and asynchronous deep-work time, which is why we schedule regular team meet-ups in our hubs across the US and, depending on the role, prioritize hiring in those hubs. If your role requires frequent travel beyond pre-scheduled team meet ups, we will represent that to the best of our ability as early as possible in the interview process.Compensation and benefits: Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. We also provide a stipend to create the ideal home office and support ongoing L&D.