Software Engineer, Home Design Experience

🏢 Higharc · 📍 Remote (New York City, NY) · 💼 remote · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors: industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Higharc is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture and delivery of our Home Design Experience application, a browser-based 3D tool that lets anyone design a home. You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and serve as the primary technical partner to the team’s product/UX lead.

As the HDE team’s most experienced engineer, you’ll make consequential technical decisions, write production code, and help other engineers deliver. Your immediate focus will be getting the application into customers’ hands. Along the way, you’ll partner with our platform team to establish shared foundations and patterns that other Higharc applications can reuse.

What You'll Do

You’ll need to move fast, make good calls under ambiguity, and turn rough product ideas into working software that customers can pick up and use without a manual. You'll work across the primary UI as well as AI-supported and agentic experiences, and you'll partner with the other staff-level engineers at Higharc to give the company's technical strategy real shape.

Expect to:

Rapidly prototype new home design workflows and turn the ones that land into customer-ready software
Lead development of interactive 3D home design workflows, connecting the application UI, design data, and real-time 3D scene into a responsive experience. Build AI-supported and agentic interactions that help users design their homes.
Own application architecture and technical delivery from early prototypes through production. Make decisions across the frontend, application state, and service integration, including performance, reliability, and testing.
Be an independent technical partner to the produc

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Higharc Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing your mastery of complex geometry processing, cloud-based CAD, and real-time visualization for the architecture and homebuilding sector.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Dismissing the unique constraints and data standards of the construction and architecture industry
2. Failing to reason through complex state management for collaborative graphical applications
3. Showing rigidity when asked to trade off visual perfection for shipping speed

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I specialize in turning deeply complex spatial and geometric problems into seamless, performant browser-based experiences.

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