Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it centers on building a new product vertical that connects a core platform to real-world commerce workflows. The Materials and Purchasing domain brings catalog data, pricing, availability, and procurement constraints into the application, which is a common inflection point for SaaS products expanding from a strong core experience into revenue-adjacent, operationally complex territory.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work offers durable experience in turning messy external data into reliable product capabilities. Designing rule engines, evolving a shared data model, and building search and configuration UX are all patterns that recur across SaaS categories, from CPQ and e-commerce to vertical platforms. The emphasis on performance, query optimization, and maintainable architecture also maps directly to the realities of scaling feature breadth without degrading product quality.
This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers end-to-end ownership and is comfortable making product and technical tradeoffs in areas with interdependent constraints. It will fit someone who enjoys collaborating across teams, cares about UX as much as systems design, and wants to help define how a new SaaS surface area is shaped from early implementation through ongoing iteration.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Us
Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.
Higharc is seeking a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer to build our new Materials & Purchasing vertical — connecting the homes people design in Higharc to the products they actually buy in the real world. Reporting to the Sr. Software Manager, you'll help stand up a brand-new function from the ground up and drive features end-to-end across the stack.
What You'll Do
This is a founding role on a new team. Materials & Purchasing brings product catalogs into the Higharc platform, enriches the home data model, and ties design decisions to real-world availability, pricing, and procurement.
You'll partner closely with the Showroom and Estimates teams to bring materials catalogs through the platform, and you'll design the rule engines that manage pricing, inventory, availability, and the constraints that govern how selections come together. You'll move fast by building on what's already proven while carving out what's new.
You don't need to be an architect on day one. You do need a high level of ownership, strong UX instincts, and comfort reasoning about complex, interdependent systems.
Expect to:
- Build and maintain full-stack features spanning UI, API layer, business logic, and data models
- Design and implement rule engines that manage pricing, inventory, availability, and selection constraints
- Enrich the home data model to connect design decisions to the products bought in the real world
- Architect extensible, maintainable systems that scale as this new vertical grows
- Build configuration and selection experiences where users navigate many interdependent choices
- Optimize backend performance including query tuning, N+1 resolution, indexing strategies, and scaling bottlenecks
- Build complex search, filtering, and querying systems across large catalog datasets
About You
You're a versatile, well-rounded engineer who's energized by ambiguity and a blank canvas. You like owning a problem end-to-end, you have strong opinions about UX, and you can reason clearly about pricing logic, availability rules, and the constraints that connect a 3D home model to a real purchase order. You're brave and calm under pressure, and you operate like an owner.
You have:
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience building polished, user-facing features
- Professional competency with React, SQL, API design, and query optimization
- Experience with configurator, customization, or rule-engine UX
- A track record building extensible production systems
- Strong UX intuition and an ability to reason about complex constraint systems
- An entrepreneurial spirit and a high tolerance for building something new
A major plus if you also bring:
- Familiarity with 3D/CAD or visual-design-tool ecosystems
- Experience with catalogs, procurement, e-commerce, or materials/pricing data
Working at Higharc
Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.
Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.
Please note: we are seeing an uptick of fraudulent recruiting activity claiming to be associated with Higharc. All communication and outreach from our in-house team will come from an @higharc.com email address. 
