Engineering - Core Platform Applications - Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong front-end web application experience and the ability to contribute across a modern full-stack TypeScript environment.

In this role, you will help design, build, and evolve user-facing applications for LightBox Live. The work will lean heavily toward front-end development, including React based interfaces, complex workflows, data visualization, and integrations with APIs and backend services. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and domain experts to deliver software that helps users interpret property, environmental, and location-based data with speed and confidence.

You should be comfortable working in a modern web stack, making thoughtful technical decisions, and building scalable, maintainable, and performant applications. You should also be curious and intentional about modern development tooling, including AI-assisted coding, and excited by how these tools can improve engineering velocity, learning, testing, refactoring, performance, and overall software quality. We are looking for someone who can take ownership, contribute to architecture and implementation, and help raise the quality of the product and codebase.

What You Will Do

Reporting to the Software Development Manager, you will:

• Build, enhance, and maintain modern web applications for LightBox Live.
• Develop responsive, intuitive, and performant user interfaces using React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teammates to translate business needs and user workflows into high quality software.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to accelerate implementation, testing, refactoring, debugging, documentation, and technical exploration while maintaining strong ownership of code quality and correctness.
• Work with APIs, data models, and backend services in a Node-based application environment.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Help shape reusable components, patterns, and best practices across the application.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve technical and application issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, well tested code.
• Contribute to an agile development process focused on delivering meaningful product value.
• Help modernize and unify CRE workflows by making complex data easier to understand and act on., At LightBox, you will help build software that changes how commercial real estate professionals work with complex property and location-based data. Our products support high impact workflows across due diligence, environmental research, lending, investment, development, and location intelligence.

LightBox Live is a major platform initiative, and this role is an opportunity to help shape the user experience, technical foundation, and product direction of a modern CRE application used by professionals making important real estate decisions. You will work with a strong engineering team, modern technologies, and rich data sets that create challenging and interesting product problems.

If you want to build polished web applications, work with meaningful real-world data, and help modernize an industry that depends on better information and better workflows, we would like to meet you.

You are a thoughtful software engineer who enjoys building polished, useful web applications. You care about user experience, code quality, system design, and maintainability. You are comfortable working with ambiguity, asking good questions, and partnering with others to solve real business and customer problems.

You are especially strong on the front end but capable of contributing across the stack. You do not need to be an expert in every technology we use, but you should be excited to work in a modern TypeScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and relational database environment., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Professional experience building modern web applications, especially with front-end technologies.
• Experience working in collaborative software teams using code reviews, source control, agile development practices, and production-oriented engineering standards.

Key Knowledge and Skills

We are especially interested in candidates with experience or familiarity in the following areas:

• Strong experience with React and modern front-end application development.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Experience working in a Node.js application stack; experience with Next.js is a plus but not required.
• Familiarity with GraphQL; experience with Relay is a strong plus.
• Experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with modern ORM or database tooling, especially Prisma.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable, performant, and testable web applications.
• Ability to break down complex use cases into clear technical solutions.
• Strong debugging, problem solving, and communication skills.
• High attention to detail in implementation, testing, and code review.

Technical Strengths We Value

• A practical understanding of front-end architecture, component design, state management, accessibility, and application performance.
• Comfort working with API-driven applications and distributed systems.
• Ability to reason about data models, relational data, and product workflows.
• Good judgment around when to build reusable abstractions and when to keep solutions simple.
• A product-minded approach to engineering: you care not only that the software works, but that it solves the right problem for the user.
• A willingness to learn new tools, technologies, and domain concepts.

Bonus Experience

These are not required, but would be valuable:

• Experience with Go.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud hosting environments.
• Experience with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with GIS, mapping, geospatial data, or location-based applications.
• Experience building React applications that include maps, spatial search, parcels, boundaries, environmental data, or other geospatial workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, or production operations.
• Experience working on B2B SaaS, data products, workflow platforms, or enterprise applications.

Core Competencies

• Strong interest in software engineering and modern web development.
• Actively uses and evaluates AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering velocity, quality, and learning while applying sound judgment around maintainability, security, performance, and correctness.
• Product-minded approach to solving customer problems.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and business domains.
• Commitment to quality, maintainability, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to mentor others and contribute to shared engineering standards.

LightBox is on a mission to modernize the commercial real estate industry. We bring together authoritative property, environmental, geospatial, zoning, and transaction data with intuitive workflow products that help professionals make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions. We are building LightBox Live, a unified CRE intelligence platform that connects data, people, properties, and workflows into one modern application experience for commercial real estate professionals. Our users rely on us to surface the right data, make it understandable, and turn it into action. This is an opportunity to help build products at the intersection of modern web applications, geospatial data, environmental due diligence, and commercial real estate technology. If you enjoy turning complex data and workflows into clean, powerful, user-friendly software, this is a great place to make an impact.