Senior Software Engineer

Wise Pelican is hiring and growing its Development team with another Senior Software Engineer. We want a builder who loves thinking about product and has the catch phrase I can fix that.

Youll take ideas especially around AI and our real estate marketing product and turn them into things that make a tangible impact on our clients real world work. That means shipping code talking to customers untangling messy workflows and owning the last 10% that makes or breaks our product.

Were a bootstrapped company so everything we build matters. Revenue client retention internal ease-of-use; you help move the needle on all of it.

This is a contract remote position located based out of Lahore Pakistan. Full-time hours available.

• Partner with the Head of Engineering and cross-functional leaders to identify product and AI opportunities tied to revenue customer success efficiency or long-term company value.
• Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand their workflows uncover the actual problem and translate ambiguous business needs into a clear technical plan.
• Build full-stack solutions using Python TypeScript and React including product features internal tools integrations data workflows and AI-supported applications.
• Own projects from discovery and prototyping through testing CI/CD production deployment on AWS adoption and ongoing improvement.
• Define what success should look like before development begins and measure whether the finished solution creates the intended business or customer outcome.
• Make practical decisions about scope speed maintainability security and technical quality so projects move forward without creating avoidable messes behind them.
• Turn successful customer-specific or internal solutions into reusable components documented playbooks and scalable product capabilities.
• Bring lessons from customers and real-world deployments back to the broader product roadmap.
• Keep stakeholders informed surface risks early and create enough structure to prevent important work from getting lost between departments.

• Learn Wise Pelicans product technical architecture business model customer workflows and current AI initiatives.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering to define the initial purpose priorities success measures and working model for our Senior Software Development function.
• Review our current pipeline of product and AI ideas to identify the projects with the clearest path to revenue user success or meaningful operational leverage.
• Take an existing prototype stalled initiative or high-priority business problem through the final stretch and into reliable production use.
• Establish lightweight standards for project discovery technical scoping deployment documentation feedback and outcome measurement.

• Own a portfolio of internal and customer-facing initiatives from business problem through measurable result.
• Build reusable tools integrations and implementation patterns so each successful project makes the next one faster and more valuable.
• Help determine when a customer need should remain a tailored solution and when it should become part of Wise Pelicans core product.
• Help shape and eventually scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function including its goals processes responsibilities and future hiring needs.

• You have a strong software engineering foundation and evidence that you have shipped real working software beyond coursework tutorials or prototypes that have never met a paying user.
• You are comfortable building production applications with Python TypeScript and React.
• You understand full-stack development fundamentals including APIs databases testing debugging authentication and deploying to cloud infrastructure (we run on AWS EC2 ECS and S3).
• You are comfortable in GitHub-based workflows: branching and reviews CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions runners.
• You can independently work through technical problems and know when to ask for context support or a second opinion.
• You can speak with customers executives developers and nontechnical stakeholders without requiring everyone else to learn your language first.
• You communicate progress tradeoffs risks and changing expectations before they become surprises.
• You enjoy understanding how a business works and can connect technical decisions to revenue adoption efficiency risk and customer outcomes.
• You are comfortable beginning with an unclear problem asking direct questions organizing the moving pieces and creating a reasonable path forward.
• You use numerous AI development tools thoughtfully.
• You want to build and deliver not recommend what someone else should build.

• You have built or deployed production systems involving LLMs AI agents retrieval-augmented generation evaluations guardrails or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• You have worked directly with customers through implementation solutions engineering technical consulting product development or a similar role.
• You have experience inside an early-stage or bootstrapped company where you had to operate without layers of process specialized teams or unlimited resources.
• You have worked with marketing automation CRMs HubSpot real estate technology workflow automation or data-heavy SaaS products.
• You can show us a project where you identified the problem built the solution launched it and learned whether it actually worked.

• Compensation: This role is currently benchmarked between $55000 and $65000 per year. Offered compensation will be based on relevant technical depth demonstrated ability to ship production software and readiness to independently own customer-facing deployments.