# Software Engineer, Materials

**Company:** [Higharc](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/higharc)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, SQL, API Design, query optimization, rule engines, configurators, 3d/cad, e-commerce
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Founding full-stack engineer building Higharc's new Materials & Purchasing vertical. Design rule engines for pricing/inventory/availability, enrich home data models, and create configuration experiences connecting 3D designs to real-world procurement. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience with React, SQL, and complex constraint systems.

## Job Description

## 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.

- 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

- 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

**Nice-to-haves:**
- Familiarity with 3D/CAD or visual-design-tool ecosystems
- Experience with catalogs, procurement, e-commerce, or materials/pricing data

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