Fullstack Engineer

About Zumper Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunities for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next. Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 175 million visits per year. We’re proud to have been named a 2023 Best Place to Work by BuiltIn SF. To date, we’ve raised over $178 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. Changing the way the world rents requires passion, bold ideas, and bright minds. Join us in building the future of renting, today! About this opportunity We’re hiring a mid-level fullstack engineer to own customer-facing features across our Django backend and React/TypeScript web apps, from implementation through production. You’ll partner with product, design, data and analytics, and other engineers to ship reliable, maintainable product experiences and the services that support them. This is a product engineering role with shared responsibility for deployment, observability, and production support. This role reports to our Sr. Engineering Manager. What you'll do Ship customer-facing features end-to-end across our Django backend and React/TypeScript web apps, including schema and API work, UI development, automated tests, and rollout Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering to scope work, make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, and shape requirements when needed Improve service reliability and delivery through instrumentation, monitoring, and CI/CD automation Contribute to the systems and tooling used to deploy and operate your services, using Unix and scripting tools to troubleshoot issues and automate routine work Review code and contribute to technical design discussions, with a focus on maintainability, performance, and reliability Use AI coding tools as a regular part of your workflow and contribute to Zumper’s homegrown AI agent platform Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, help triage and resolve production incidents, and contribute to postmortems and follow-up improvements What You'll Work With Backend: Python, Django, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, REST/JSON APIs serving web and native clients Frontend: React, Redux, TypeScript, server-side rendering Mobile: Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Swift with SwiftUI Services & platform: Node.js services, AWS including EC2, S3, SQS, Fastly, Nomad, and Grafana Workflow: Git, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing Who you are 3+ years of professional fullstack engineering experience shipping production applications, including APIs built with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL and user interfaces built with React and TypeScript Fluency with Git, automated testing, and CI/CD, including the ability to investigate failed builds or deployments and contribute to reliable deployment workflows Practical experience supporting cloud-hosted production services, preferably in AWS, with comfort using Unix/Linux and Python, Bash, or another scripting language to troubleshoot systems and automate routine work Experience with configuration management and infrastructure tooling, such as SaltStack or another configuration management system, and with one or more HashiCorp tools, including Terraform, Consul, Nomad, or Vault Working knowledge of HTTP, DNS, load balancing, CDNs, and reverse proxies, with hands-on experience in technologies such as AWS ELB/ALB, Nginx, HAProxy, or CloudFront Experience using logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts to understand service health, plus participation in an on-call rotation or equivalent production-support responsibility Regular hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent as part of your development workflow Bonus Skills Deeper platform experience with AWS, containers or orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration-management tooling Experience with marketplace, two-sided, or proptech products, or with Node.js services Compensation The US base salary range for this role is $120,000–$150,000. Where an offer falls within that range depends on your experience, skills, and the cost of labor in your local market — we benchmark against several U.S. geographic tiers and adjust accordingly. What we offer Fully remote, with a home office stipend to set up your workspace Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance options with up to 100% premium coverage 401k plan + 3% company match Stock options FSAs, HSAs, life insurance, and short & long-term disability insurance Up to 12-weeks of paid parental leave Flexible vacation policy - work hard and take time off when you need it Health & wellness and internet reimbursements Group training and individual professional development programs Team activities, virtual company-wide hosted games, and virtual happy hours Weekly insight into company metrics Employee Resource Group (zERG) that celebrates all communities - Black, LGBTQIA+, Women, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and more! zERG works together to create safe spaces for candid conversations Hackathons (not overnight!)