Boston, MA Opportunities

Company Overview

Zumper is making renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. With over 50 million annual users across our two brands Zumper & PadMapper, we’ve generated support from top-tier investors and have raised $90 million to date. Our focus is to continue to build an amazing team. We’re searching for bright, passionate, hard-working people to help build extraordinary products and revolutionize the rental industry. 

Job Summary

We’re looking for an Engineer to join the team that builds the platform that runs Zumper. You’ll help software engineers deliver faster, better and more reliably. You’ll shape the platform that millions of renters and landlords depend on every month in their apartment-finding.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Help drive the infrastructure powering Zumper into the future


• Development and maintenance of cloud-hosted infrastructure running Zumper’s APIs, website and internal tooling


• Design and implementation of new infrastructure solutions


• Ensure smooth adoption of new infrastructure solutions


• Automating processes to improve our team’s productivity and reliability


• Help our engineers instrument our products and platform


• On-call application support

Qualifications and Skills

• 3+ years of experience in software development / DevOps


• Self-motivated do-er of things and solver of problems


• Python


• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, SES, etc.)


• Comfortable at a Unix terminal, and at least one scripting language


• Willingness to go above-and-beyond to help your colleagues succeed


• Always looking for new ways to solve problems


• Adaptable to new tools, processes and procedures

Bonus Stuff

• SaltStack or other configuration management system


• HTTP / reverse-proxies (ELB, Nginx, HAProxy, CloudFront, etc.)


• DNS


• Hashicorp tools (Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, etc.)


• Git

Benefits and Perks

• 401k plan + 3% company match


• Stock options


• Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it


• $150/month mass transit/rideshare stipend


• $65/month gym reimbursement


• Catered meals and stocked kitchen with coffee, snacks and beverages


• Team retreats every quarter


• Weekly insight into all major company metrics


• Up to 12-weeks of paid parental leave


• Quarterly Hackathons (not overnight!) 

What We Value

• Be Resilient: Work hard, while displaying passion, perseverance and commitment


• Continuously Improve: Be intellectually curious, problem solve, and move quickly while producing quality results


• Collaborate: Work well with others, share knowledge and contribute positively to culture and work environment