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 do all backend work to help ship new features for our web app.  

We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market.  With 700k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.

Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) lots of technologies across the backend stack: API design, data engineering, algorithms, startup engineering, analytics, monitoring, web crawling, etc. as well as the frontend stack (it's fine to not have any frontend experience starting out).

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 3+ years of experience with backend engineering

• Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems

• Good systems design

• Ability to learn new tech quickly

• Enjoyable to work with

TECHNOLOGY STACK

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

  EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law

• Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host

• Retrieve semi-structured data from various online sources and automate the structuring of the data

• Improve the evaluation framework for our search engine

Job Type : Full-Time

Location : 100% remote

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

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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.