True Footage · 1 month ago
Software Engineer 4 (BE)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $180K/yrTrue Footage is a real estate valuation company reinventing how the world values, buys, and sells homes. They are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join their small engineering team, where the role involves building and shipping backend features, developing API services, and improving existing systems.
AccountingReal EstateConsultingResidentialTax Consulting
Responsibilities
Build, test, and ship backend features end-to-end using Python and FastAPI
Develop and evolve API services that support our web applications and internal systems
Work closely with product managers and frontend engineers to translate requirements into reliable backend solutions
Debug and resolve production issues, taking ownership from investigation through fix and follow-up
Improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of existing services through thoughtful refactoring and incremental improvements
Design and implement Postgres migrations and data model changes with an eye toward safety, backwards compatibility, and performance
Contribute logging, metrics, and other observability improvements as part of normal development
Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to maintain a high bar for quality and clarity
Qualification
Required
Several years of professional experience building and operating backend services in production
Strong experience shipping Python-based APIs, ideally with FastAPI
Solid working knowledge of relational databases, especially Postgres
Comfortable writing migrations
Familiar with query performance and indexing concepts
Experience deploying and running containerized services in cloud environments
Ability to work effectively in a shared codebase and collaborate closely with other engineers
Comfortable handling ambiguity and helping shape solutions in partnership with product and design
Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for the software you ship
Curious and engaged about both technical systems and product requirements, with an eye toward understanding underlying goals and tradeoffs in each
Clear, thoughtful communicator in a remote team environment
Preferred
Experience with background jobs, task queues, or data processing workflows
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and making incremental improvements to them
Experience adding or improving observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
Exposure to domain-heavy or data-intensive products
Experience working on small teams supporting revenue-generating SaaS products
Company
True Footage
True Footage is a residential valuation platform that streamlines residential transactions.
Founded in 2019
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$96.97M2023-10-28Series B· $27M
2021-10-15Series A· $69.1M
2020-11-09Seed· $0.88M
Leadership Team
John Liss
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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2025-08-13
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