Hightower, New York NY (REMOTE, H1B)
<a href="http://www.gethightower.com" >
Ground floor opportunity at a commercial real estate software startup :)
Commercial real estate (CRE) is one of the largest parts of our economy ($7T in U.S. asset value) but incredibly underserved by technology. We've actually met teams using different color sheets of paper to manage and track their sales pipeline. One of our investors described the opportunity as "finding the proverbial lost tribe in the amazon" [1]. If reimagining this world sounds interesting, come talk to us – we've got a product in market, just closed a 2.1M seed round, and are hiring engineer #1.
Our stack is Rails + AngularJS. We've been using AngularJS since day 1 and love it (and have paid it forward in some pull requests). Our development workflow is simple and robust – Trello for task management, CircleCI for continuous integration, and deployment to Heroku.
The product is a collaboration and workflow platform for CRE leasing teams. Our goals are to dramatically increase their operational efficiency with a purpose built web + mobile experience, and to leverage the underlying data to deliver performance insights to insititutional owners.
Hightower is being actively piloted by some of the biggest names in CRE, and we've raised a 2.1M seed round led by BVP and Thrive Capital with participation from a host of amazing angels and VC including Aaron Levie, Lee Linden, David Tisch and Gary Vaynerhuck. Our founding team is Brandon Weber (CEO – CMU graduate and former VP @ CBRE), Niall Smart (CTO, formerly founder of YC W09 company Echodio, which sold to RealNetworks) and Donald DeSantis (CDO, formerly founder of LIFFFT, early Redfin employee).
We're hiring engineer #1. Knowledge of CRE is not a pre-requisite. In fact, possibly the less you know on that front, the better :) You should have deep experience with any or all of: Rails, Backbone, Angular, Ember, Django, Node -- and a strong history of building product at startups. Meaningful equity + cash compensation is on offer for the right person.
Drop me a line to learn more – niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.
Happy new year!
[1] <a href="http://www.bvp.com/blog/hightower-poised-modernize-commercial-real-estate-business" >
[2] <a href="http://www.pehub.com/2013/12/hightower-secures-2-12-mln-in-seed-financing/" >
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