Full Stack Software Engineer - AI-Powered Construction Solutions

🚀 About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). Preference for NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

✅ What You’ll Do

• Transform complex, manual permitting workflows into seamless, AI-enabled software experiences.
• Design and implement backend and frontend services, APIs, and data pipelines to support AI-driven workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver intelligent, user-facing features.
• Work directly with users to shape product direction and rapidly ship features that drive impact.
• Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to testing and production deployment.
• Help establish engineering best practices and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
  
  

🙌 What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in fullstack development, ideally including time at a startup or fast-moving team
• Comfortable owning features across frontend, backend, and data layers
• Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres, or ability to learn quickly
• Track record of shipping production systems and making thoughtful trade-offs for speed, reliability, and scalability
• Excitement for AI-powered tools that solve real-world construction challenges and a customer-first mindset
  
  

💙 Benefits

• 📈 Equity packages
• 💰 Competitive Salary
• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
• 💻 Company issued laptop
• 🍽️ Lunch & Dinner provided via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen
• 🚍 Commuter benefits
• 🎤 Team building events
• 🌴 Unlimited PTO
  
  

✏️ Interview Process

• 20 minute recruiter screen
• Take-home coding assessment (2-3 hours)
• 1 hour live-coding interview
• 1 hour system design interview
• Culture interview with Hiring Manager
• Reference checks
• Offer!