Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Vision and intuition vs. testing and validating

Remember when software still felt magical? Good software used to be an experience. It used to radically change how we live and work.

It made us feel like we lived in the future.

Today, software is everywhere. But truly great software has become incredibly rare - especially in the real estate industry.

Most software at the end of the 90s and has barely updated since. Most software companies in the space make their money not with licenses - but with seminars teaching how to use the software.

This leads to an ugly incentive to make software more complicated to sell more seminars.

At Buena we are going back to the essentials that lead to category-defining companies : courageous, first-principled, visionary products.

In doing so we step away from the incremental testing-culture that gets all too easily stuck on local maxima.

Tech

We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript.

We use Slack, Linear, Macs and Github.

Where could the Buena journey lead?

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat

In the medium and long term, we will expand in all directions :

• Depth : We will increasingly handle and improve more property management tasks through our software solutions. What started with accounting expanded into AI-enabled ticketing and remote owner’s meetings.
• Breadth : We will enter new, adjacent business areas from brokerage to deposit management - all led by productized workflows.

Every vertical offers new opportunities to build on a green field and shape our property management operations through software - and you could take the lead.

Global : Germany is only our MVP ( minimum viable product ). While we can become a unicorn ( company valued at $1 billion ) in the German market alone, we aim to enter the US market.

Whoever has conquered Germany can either expand linearly through the EU or take another leap and go to the US.

Your first week at Buena

Mon 9 : 00 You arrive and receive your Macbook Pro with maxed out specs - and set it up.

Mon 9 : 10 Upon logging into your Buena Email, Slack and Linear you find the Linear onboarding template to get you started.

It includes the docs from previous board meetings, our benefits platform (free lunches, 50€ fitness budget / mo, etc.), our VSOP platform (all full-time positions come with equity) and how to get started with the code base.

Mon 9 : 35 While you defer most of the onboarding tasks to a later time, you are now set up and ready to dive into the code.

As mentioned above, we don’t believe in preemptive learnings, so Daniel comes by to kick-off your first project. Daniel is an integration manager, he manages six of our portcos ( portfolio companies, i.

e. property management companies we bought and are now digitalizing ) and one of them has had a sophisticated array of templates in their previous software so to onboard them successfully we need to allow them to quickly reply to repetitive emails.

Daniel has already worked with Jackie, our designer on the Figma prototypes and was eagerly awaiting your start with Buena.

Nikita, one of our senior engineers leads the project and you’ll be working with him. That way you have someone that can help you get acquainted with our code base.

Mon 10 : 41 Daniel has told you and Nikita everything about the design and inner workings of email templates with variables so you get to start building.

Mon 12 : 00 You go to lunch with other team members.

Mon 17 : 34 You send Daniel a link to test the feature. Time for dinner and cleaning up code.

Mon 19 : 01 Daniel confirms that everything works. You and Nikita go ahead and deploy the code. Congratulations on your first release!

Mon 19 : 34 After the deployment you have the time to continue diving into our videos on property management and our company’s history.

Tue 9 : 23 Daniel got off a phone call with Dennis, the team lead at ProCasa, the 18-people portco near Cologne that most eagerly has requested this feature.

They’ve already added the first 15 templates and the team has answered the first 5 emails using them. Daniel shares a message Dennis sent him :

Hard requirements

Move near the office

Application process

• Brief phone call to cover the basics
• Case study to demonstrate your approach and technical abilities
• Case study review with one of our engineers
• Office tour on-site
• Conversation with Moritz (CTO)
• Meeting with Din (CEO) or Jan (COO) about values, goals, and motivation
• Contract signing
• Onboarding

These steps can be completed in 4 days.

Read more about Buena here .