UpCodes provides tools to help architects and developers design safe, accessible buildings that speed through government approval. Inefficiencies and mistakes navigating complex building codes cost companies billions yearly in the US alone. Our SaaS platform enables industry professionals to find, understand, and apply the codes so they can build better.

THE ROLE

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll be involved in end-to-end development on features across our web product, from architecture all the way to support. We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market.

You'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) everything across the stack: API design, frontend, backend, data engineering, algorithms, LLMs, startup engineering, analytics, etc.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 3+ years of experience building web products, ideally across the stack
• Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems
• Strong sense of UX
• Good systems design
• Ability to learn new tech quickly

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Pinecone, GPT-4

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law
• Create Rap Genius-style annotations on sections of building code, to create a more interactive user experience
• Write algorithms to detect and display how versions of a code have changed through time, so users understand how regulations have evolved
• Migrate our NLP algorithms over to use LLMs

Comp

• US-based comp range*: $100k-$165k
• Latin America-based comp range*: $75k-$125k (USD)
• Canada-based comp range*: $90k-$150k (USD)

* Plus equity (cost of living agnostic)

TO APPLY

Please click here to apply - we only look at candidates who apply directly.

Tech Stack

• Python 3
• Typescript
• Flask
• Postgres
• Redis
• Heroku
• AWS

Why Join Us?

• Our product is already at 250,000 monthly active users. To put that in perspective, there are ~1.5M architects and structural engineers in the US, so we already have a significant chunk of the market.

• This is one of the construction industry's worst problems and we're the only ones solving it.

• We're a YCombinator company, backed by Liquid 2 and Foundation Capital. We've been approached for acquisition more than once, but declined because we believe this could become something big.

• The work is meaningful. Cheaper construction means more affordable housing, airports, hospitals, schools, etc. Oh and we're fighting the good fight (try googling "Can the Law be Copyrighted?")

• We believe the best perk is working with talented colleagues, so we're keeping the team small and experienced / talented.

Example Projects

• Create an internal tool that allows contractors to write formulas to identify when a building code section applies for a user's building, so we can help them find relevant information.

• Add users' bookmarked code snippets onto blueprint PDFs (and have some kind of UI for them specifying the right area in the PDF or detect automatically).

• Create Rap Genius-style annotations on sections of building code, to better explain it.

• Past project example: for links to other building code sections, create a preview modal that pops up similar to Wikipedia's previews.