Technical Lead (Python / FastAPI | AI Agents | Geo-Spatial Data)
California / Colorado / Texas
Engineering – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
Who We Are
Villa is building America’s leading next-generation homebuilding platform. With a mission to be the easiest, fastest and most cost-efficient way to build homes, Villa is a highly scalable new approach to offsite homebuilding and is critical in solving the many problems facing the U.S. housing market. Villa provides end-to-end services for customers that span feasibility, design, permitting, and construction of high-quality homes built using modern offsite construction. Villa is currently the largest ADU builder in California and is growing rapidly into other housing products and geographies.
We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our team.
Why You’ll Love It
You’ll collaborate directly with the VP of Engineering, steer architecture, and turn bleeding-edge AI into concrete wins for construction tech—helping us site, design, and price projects in minutes instead of weeks.
This role is remote, with a preference for candidates based in California, Colorado, and Texas.
What You'll Do:
- Own the backend: architect, build, and operate our FastAPI services, ensuring reliability, performance, and clear API contracts for internal consumers.
- Evolve the data model – Design crisp Postgres schemas; lead zero-downtime migrations from Firestore and decide where NoSQL still makes sense.
- Build internal AI agents – Apply latest Agentic AI frameworks, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation to automate project estimation, site-layout generation, and parcel scoring.
- Lead the team – Serve as day-to-day player-coach: own the technical backlog, plan sprints, pair program, and mentor teammates through code reviews.
- Ship full-stack features – Partner with frontend engineering; provide clean endpoints and, when needed, dive into Next.js for UI tweaks or debugging.
- Keep analytics trustworthy – Monitor the Fivetran → Postgres → BigQuery pipeline and work to provide corporate dashboards to drive our business forward
- Continuously improve DX – Automate CI/CD, promote thoughtful testing, and champion observability.
- Evaluate new tech – Benchmark emerging agent frameworks and infra patterns; adopt when ROI outweighs risk.
What You Have:
- 7+ years building production backends; 5+ years with API based frameworks.
- Deep SQL expertise: Postgres tuning, PostGIS spatial queries.
- Real-world experience migrating live NoSQL data (Firestore, DynamoDB, Mongo) into relational schemas.
- Hands-on with LLM stacks: OpenAI / Claude / Gemini API - Agentic SDKs (OpenAI, Langchain).
- Comfortable designing secure, versioned REST/GraphQL APIs and lightweight auth flows.
- Working knowledge of modern Next.js (App Router, ISR, hooks); able to unblock the frontend quickly.
- Cloud & DevOps: Docker, GitHub Actions (or similar CI), and one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Proven leadership in a lean/start-up setting—owning architecture while still shipping code.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Geospatial analytics chops for setback buffers and lot-layout algorithms.
- Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
$144,500 - $170,000 a year
Compensation for this role is dependent on geographic location, based on the following tiers:
Tier 1: $144,500 - $170,000 in CA, CT, NJ, NY
Tier 2: $134,385 - $158,100 in AL, AK, AZ, CO, DE, GA, IL, MD, MA, MI, MN, NH, NC, OR, RI, TX, VA, WA
Tier 3: $130,050 - $153,000 in FL, HI, IN, KS, LA, MO, NV, OH, TN, UT, VT, WI
Tier 4: $122,825 - $144,500 in AR, ID, IA, KY, ME, MS, MT, NE, NM, ND, OK, PA, SC, SD, WV, WY
Ready to build the brain of the modern prefab-housing platform? Apply now and help us redefine land acquisition and project estimation with AI.
We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you're excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply.
Villa is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles FCIHO, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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