Jr Web Application Developer

The Opportunity

Settlor is a fast-growing software company focused on building innovative solutions for the title, escrow, and real estate industries. We are looking for a Junior Web Application Developer who loves solving puzzles, cares about the craft of writing good code, and is hungry to learn what enterprise software engineering really takes. You do not have to have all the answers yet, but you do need at least a year of building web applications and a genuine drive to get better every week.

As a Junior Web Application Developer, your impact is immediate. Working alongside a highly collaborative team, you will ideate, build, design, and maintain the real estate applications our customers use every day. You won't be handed busywork on the edge of the product; you will ship real features, get real code review, and learn directly from the engineers who built the framework, the design patterns, and the back end of our software. Our team demonstrates and values technical thought leadership, and we expect you to grow into it.

This role is your launch pad. It is the starting line to take on harder problems, own bigger pieces of the system, and grow into a senior engineer here - assuming you are the star we are looking for . . . ! We are a small but mighty team, so there is no shortage of opportunity for someone who runs at it. Show us what you can do, and the sky is the limit.

This is a hybrid position based in Denver, Colorado. Typical office hours are 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM; Monday and Thursday at home, Tuesday and Friday in the office, with Wednesday as scheduled weekly/monthly.

Why Join Settlor?

• Impact: Your work directly influences our customers' experience with our platform and our company and is foundational to our long-term growth and evolution.
• Culture: A collaborative, "no-ego" environment where we celebrate wins and learn from losses. We purposefully operate in a hybrid-office environment because we believe in the power of teams and relationships, and we have learned that both are best built and nurtured in-person.
• Growth: Often hard to find in the age of A.I. and constant turnover with software engineers, we invest in professional and personal growth as demonstrated by our high-retention of engineers who started their careers with us and have found little reason to look elsewhere.
• Customer-Centric: We build for the long haul by prioritizing solutions to real-world challenges for our customers. Your work ensures we evolve in lockstep with our users' needs, creating a product they truly love and trust.
• Technical Thought Leadership: You will work with the people who built this platform, in a codebase where architecture and design patterns are discussed openly and taken seriously.
• Self-funded and privately-held: Not looking for hyper-growth on an aggressive timeline. We want to build an organization thoughtfully and strategically, with solid processes and culture.

What You’ll Do

• Feature Development: Build, design, and maintain web applications that impact the full spectrum of the real estate industry, using modern JavaScript (Vue 3) and Python on the back end.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve defects using sound debugging approaches, tools, and techniques, and grow your ability to anticipate problems before they ship.
• Agentic Development: Use AI coding agents as a daily part of your workflow, with the review discipline to catch what they get wrong before it reaches a customer.
• Craft & Code Quality: Participate in code review as both author and reviewer, and apply the design patterns and practices the team has established.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, support, and senior engineers to turn business requirements into working software.
• Domain Fluency: Learn real estate, title, and escrow terminology well enough to reason about the problems you are solving, not just the tickets you are handed.
• Documentation: Leave behind clear notes, comments, and documentation so the next person - including future you - can move quickly.

What You Bring

• The "Startup Mindset": You are comfortable with autonomy, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are willing to wear multiple hats.
• Foundational Craft: You have 1+ years ideating, building, designing, and maintaining web applications, and you take pride in producing high-quality deliverables.
• Technical Aptitude: You know Vue or an equivalent JavaScript framework, and Python with FastAPI, Django, Flask, or an equivalent framework - and you have a proven ability to pick up new tools quickly.
• Accountable Velocity: You use agentic coding tools to move faster, and you can explain every line you ship. You know the difference between code that works and code you understand, and you don't confuse the two.
• Passion for the Craft: You are genuinely curious about what is possible with the languages and frameworks we use, and you want to build an intuitive, cutting-edge web experience.
• Intentional Curiosity: You enjoy getting to the 'bottom' of things and identifying the core issue at hand, rather than patching the symptom in front of you.
• Collaborative Execution: You work effectively across functions, communicate openly, take feedback constructively, and contribute to a positive, accountable team culture, even under pressure.
• Detail Discipline: You have a sharp eye for details, catch issues before they become problems, and maintain high standards of accuracy without losing sight of broader goals.
• Ownership: You assume responsibility for your work end to end and follow through without needing to be chased.
• Love of Data: Our software platform is built around critical, 'system of record' data, so you need to be comfortable working with data sets and able to identify trends or gaps in them.
• Industry Context: Experience in Real Estate Tech (PropTech) or Mortgage and Real Estate Brokerage is a plus; experience in the Title Insurance & Escrow/Closing industry would be amazing.

Your Education & Experience

We believe there are specific educational backgrounds and professional experiences necessary or strongly preferred in order to be successful in this position.

Necessary:

• A related bachelor's degree or commensurate experience
• 1+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production web applications
• Strong working knowledge of a modern JavaScript framework and a Python web framework
• Proficient in clear, professional written and verbal communication

Preferred:

• Production experience with Vue 3 and with FastAPI or Flask
• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs across internal and external integrations
• Experience owning implementation decisions and technology selection on a team
• Experience in real estate, mortgage, and/or banking industries

Bonus Points:

• Experience in the Title and Escrow industry
• Experience with enterprise SaaS at multi-tenant scale
• Open-source contributions, talks, or writing that show how you think

Why You’ll Love It Here

We believe you do your best work when you have the freedom to be flexible, backed by a team that's always in your corner.

• Competitive Pay: $65,000 to $75,000 base salary
• Growth: Rapid career progression as we scale our customer base and our company.
• Health and Wellness: We offer full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision) and matching 401(k) retirement plans
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible time-off program that empowers work-life balance
• Dress Code: Come as you are. Shorts, hoodies, and t-shirts are great - just no smelly sandals.
• Office Culture: Background music, afternoon board games, puzzle tables, and a fully stocked snack kitchen (plus occasional breakfast burritos for good behavior!).
• Prime Location: A quick scooter ride to RiNo, and steps away from local coffee, breweries, golf simulators, a dog park, Beat the Bomb, and Topo Designs HQ.

At this time, we are only considering applicants who are already eligible to work for any U.S. employer without company sponsorship.

We anticipate candidates with the necessary skills, background, and passion for this position to receive the base salary and benefits package as outlined above; we also appreciate that candidates with the preferred or ideal background and experience referenced above may demand more.

Settlor is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.