Why is home-buying painful?

When we buy any other commodity, we usually transact with one party. For example, a car is bought from just a car dealer, and you have to only deal with them.

Although home-buyers have to work with multiple parties — estate agents, mortgage brokers, solicitors, lenders and surveyors, contributing to it widely being accepted as one of the most stressful processes (following closely after divorce!).

A key contributor to this stress is that consumers have to interact with multiple softwares that each of these parties currently use — which are outdated, non-standardised and not interconnected.

Poor buyers, therefore, repeat the same processes with each stakeholder and glue everything together with email, phone, letters, WhatsApp and sometimes fax — adding to their pain...!

At Homey we are rebuilding the software landscape for consumers and businesses across the home-buying experience in a single cloud based platform to make it a beautiful and delightful experience.Here are some of our screens:

We are already profitable and work with 20 of the biggest estate agents/ law firms in UK.

We choose to be in semi-stealth mode as our customers currently come from referrals, and we don't want incumbents learning from our ideas — the best way to learn about us, is to talk to us.

Where we need help?

• Agile development of iterative features based on the stories and designs prepared by Product and Design
  
  

Tech stack

• Ruby
• Rails 7
• PostgreSQL
• Hotwire
• Tailwind
• RSpec
• Heroku
  
  

Why us?

• You will build a web app with a core impact on the 1500 consumers passing through the platform monthly
• Working with a team of small closely knit A+ players. We believe in quality, not quantity
  
  
  

Requirements

What we look for?

• 5+ years of experience as Ruby engineer
• Experience working in a fast-paced development team with Ruby on Rails experience
• Have a positive attitude that radiates to the team
• Experience with other Javascript languages is desirable, although not required
• Evidence of coding experience beyond working experiences, such as hackathons and personal projects, is desirable, although not required
  
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience:
• Salary starting from Rs.650,000 LKR/ month, paid in GBP
• Plus 5% allocation for benefits
• Team will decide how to allocate benefits allocation, which may include health insurance, other standard benefits, transport and socials
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• Supportive work environment with a focus on work-life balance