Side

Help Transform the Real Estate Experience

51 - 100 employees

11 - 25 engineers

$25m - $50m funding

Series b

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We are a modern real estate brokerage that empowers our agents to run their own boutique brokerage brands.

Why join us?

Grew from 40 to 100 + people in a year.
We started in California and are expanding into multiple states this year.
Have an amazing, collaborative team that is focused on producing work that we are proud of.

Engineering at Side

Engineering team and processes

We have four teams in the engineering organization: Core, Marketing, Internal Tools, and QA.

We use agile, and teams either have 1 or 2 week sprints. We have well defined quarterly objectives and engineers are allowed to drive their path to hitting those objectives.

We use continuous integration and are in the process of upgrading from Travis to Gitlab.

We use pull requests to ensure a quality codebase.

We have a nice, mature, professional process that makes it easy to get quality work done.

Technical Challenges

Firebase is an amazing tool which helps us focus on delivering end-user value at an incredible velocity. Dealing with data in Firebase is unique, interacting with Firebase's backend services is unique.

Projects you might work on

We recently solved the problem of printing to PDF from the client, based on templates of marketing material defined in HTML. The user can select marketing collateral from a set of templates, upload photos, add and format text, and specify meta information, and then they can select 'Download PDF' which will create a PDF version of what they've just been editing in their browser.
We track our financial data in our application. There are many stakeholders who all need to know parts of a transaction. We came up with a flexible system to record this data. We also pipe this data into Periscope to create useful dashboards.
We are currently creating an Open House Tool which our agents will use when they show off properties for sale to potential buyers. This tool allows agents to custom-configure questions to ask prior to the open house. During the open house, a nicely designed form is presented to the potential buyer on an iPad. Once the information is collected, it is added to the agent's CRM, a follow up email campaign is started, and hopefully the individual converts to a client.

Tech stack

React

Firebase

Node.js

Redux

Working at Side

Extremely collaborative and goal-oriented. We have a No Jerks Policy. People are happy to help and empower each other.

Perks & benefits

Generous Vacation

Pet Friendly

Maternal/Paternal Leave

Flexible Hours

Most of our engineers are in the office from 10AM until 6PM, but we don't have any hard rules around this. If you need a work-from-home day, feel free to take one! We care about productivity, not hours.