Staff Software Engineer
Summary
Builds county-level property valuation models end to end for a seed-stage startup automating property tax appeals: selecting comparable sales, measuring market adjustments, and producing the evidence packets homeowners file. Core stack is Python and SQL, paired with real property-appraisal domain expertise. Remote anywhere in the US.
About Owlue
Owlue is a seed-stage company that already earns revenue. We automate property tax appeals end to end: finding over-assessed homes, valuing them, building the evidence and filing. The filing is the easy part. The hard part is building a case an appeals board will accept, for thousands of homes, in counties that each record and value property differently.
The role
Most appraisers have never written a line of code. Most engineers have never defended a comp grid. We're looking for someone who has done both.
You'll build the engine that does what a good appraiser does, at scale. Every county is its own puzzle. King and Kitsap in Washington look nothing like Miami-Dade and Broward in Florida, and the model has to know the difference.
What you'll do
• Own county valuation models end to end, from raw county data to the evidence packet a homeowner files
• Select comparable sales the way a reviewer would: same class, close in time and distance, and bracketing the subject on the features that matter
• Measure adjustments from the market instead of assuming them: time trends, condition, view, waterfront, site, basements
• Encode the rules of each jurisdiction: gross adjustment limits, the subject's own recent sale, and the fields a county doesn't record
• Write the grid and the narrative the way a board of equalization expects to read them
• Work alongside the engineer who built our first county models and directly with the founders.
What we're looking for
• Experience as an appraiser or assessor, or in property tax consulting. You know what paired sales analysis is, why bracketing matters, and how a hearing actually goes.
• Production coding experience, comfortable in Python and SQL. You've built models, not just used them.
• When a number looks wrong, you want to know why.
Nice to have
• Mass appraisal or CAMA experience
• IAAO coursework, USPAP, or a designation (MAI, SRA, CAE)
• Regression or hedonic modeling
What we offer
• Full-time W2, remote anywhere in the US
• Meaningful early-employee equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
How to apply
- Send your resume or LinkedIn profile, along with one paragraph about a valuation you had to defend: what the other side argued and how you held your number.
