What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior/Staff Software Engineer- Application Platform position at Flow?
About The Company
At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect. More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, hotels, multifamily residences, and office spaces. We’re building a new kind of living experience: one that’s flexible, connected, and designed to create genuine community and real value for the people who call Flow home.
Our mission is oneness: prioritizing our residents and their experiences, and fostering connection with ourselves, their neighbors, and the natural world. By putting people at the center of everything we do, we’re creating vibrant, human-centered communities where life, work, creativity, and play all come together in one place.
About The Role
We are hiring engineers to build and own Flow’s Application Platform—the layer that sits between product engineering and infrastructure. The team is focused on staying AI first, this role will expect you to be at the forefront of utilizing AI agents and tools to accomplish tasks.
This team is responsible for the core application platform foundations at Flow, including our AI, Kotlin, and TypeScript service frameworks, shared libraries, and developer tooling. You will work across the boundary between Product Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure services are standardized, easy to build, secure, operate, and scale.
We believe employees are better together. Every position at Flow has an onsite or in-office requirement.
Responsibilities
At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect. More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, hotels, multifamily residences, and office spaces. We’re building a new kind of living experience: one that’s flexible, connected, and designed to create genuine community and real value for the people who call Flow home.
Our mission is oneness: prioritizing our residents and their experiences, and fostering connection with ourselves, their neighbors, and the natural world. By putting people at the center of everything we do, we’re creating vibrant, human-centered communities where life, work, creativity, and play all come together in one place.
About The Role
We are hiring engineers to build and own Flow’s Application Platform—the layer that sits between product engineering and infrastructure. The team is focused on staying AI first, this role will expect you to be at the forefront of utilizing AI agents and tools to accomplish tasks.
This team is responsible for the core application platform foundations at Flow, including our AI, Kotlin, and TypeScript service frameworks, shared libraries, and developer tooling. You will work across the boundary between Product Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure services are standardized, easy to build, secure, operate, and scale.
We believe employees are better together. Every position at Flow has an onsite or in-office requirement.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain service frameworks and shared libraries
- Drive AI adoption, championing AI tools, harnesses, and agentic software development, and establishing standards for APIs, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
- Improve developer workflows (local development, testing, CI/CD, service scaffolding)
- Partner with infrastructure teams to help define how services run in production
- Ensure services are observable, reliable, and production-ready by default
- Drive adoption of platform standards across the organization
- Contribute to system design and architecture across multiple domains
- A minimum 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering
- Advocate for the integration of AI throughout the SDLC to accelerate and improve delivery velocity.
- Strong experience building platforms and paved paths for systems in production environments
- Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as, Kotlin, Typescript, Go, Python
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (e.g., GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience building shared libraries, frameworks, or internal tooling
- Ability to work across teams and influence technical direction
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing)
- Experience with CI/CD systems and developer tooling
- Exposure to high-scale or multi-service environments
- Comprehensive Benefits Package (Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life)
- Paid time off and 13 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Access to HSA-compatible plans
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, and other wellness offerings