Research Assistant Software Developer Jobs in Davis, CA

About CREtelligent
CREtelligent builds the SaaS platform that powers commercial real estate environmental due diligence - turning property, parcel, and risk data into the reports and workflows lenders, investors, and consultants rely on. Our engineering team is small, hands-on, and collaborative, and we're growing. You'll have real ownership across the stack and a direct line to the decisions that shape the product.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced full stack engineer to build and maintain features across our Spring Boot microservices and our Angular and React frontends. This is a build-and-own role: you'll work the full lifecycle - design, implementation, code review, testing, and production support - alongside a team that values thoughtful, deliberate engineering over shipping fast and hoping for the best.
How We Work
We're an AI-forward team. AI coding assistants - Claude Code, Copilot, and friends - are part of our everyday toolkit. We lean into "vibe coding" to move fast on the first 80%, then bring engineering judgment to the part that actually matters: reviewing the output, writing the tests, and proving it's correct before it ships. We want engineers who are fluent with these tools and know when not to trust them. AI accelerates the work; it doesn't replace the thinking.
What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in Java 17 / Spring Boot 3.x, including REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems (Salesforce, QuickBooks, AWS, and others).

• Develop and improve frontend features in Angular and React (TypeScript) with Redux, Vite, and MUI - from data layer through UI, including interactive map / geospatial views (Deck.gl).

• Model and work with data in MongoDB, balancing query performance, schema design, and data quality.

• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to platform evolution, including our ongoing move toward an API-led integration architecture.

• Write clean, well-tested code and take part in thorough, adversarial code reviews - finding the bug before it ships, not after.

• Collaborate with QA, product, and fellow engineers to scope work, isolate clean PRs, and own quality through to release.

• Troubleshoot production issues with a hypothesis-driven, read-the-data-first approach.

Who We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• 5+ years experience with JavaScript, Java, NoSQL databases.

• Proven experience in full stack software engineering.

• Strong backend skills in Java, with hands-on Spring Boot experience.

• Proficiency with JavaScript / TypeScript and modern frontend development.

• Production experience with both Angular and React (or deep experience in one and genuine willingness to work in the other), plus familiarity with Redux-style state management and modern build tooling (Vite).

• Working knowledge of MongoDB or comparable NoSQL databases - schema design, aggregation, indexing.

• Solid grasp of REST API design, authentication / authorization patterns (JWT / OAuth2), and service-to-service integration.

• Comfort with Git-based workflows and CI/CD.

• Fluency with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) - paired with a review-everything skepticism about what they generate.

• Clear written and verbal communication, and the judgment to know when to ask versus when to dig in.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS (S3 in particular) and cloud-native service deployment.

• Exposure to microservices migration or modernization efforts (e.g., consolidating legacy services, integration platforms like MuleSoft).

• Familiarity with geospatial / mapping work - Deck.gl, Google Maps APIs, parcel / GIS data, or similar.

• Salesforce integration experience.

• Background in real estate, environmental, insurance, or other data-heavy regulated domains.

• SOC 2 or other compliance-aware development experience.

Why Join CREtelligent?
Health And Wellness
What's important to you and your family is important to us.
At CREtelligent, we believe that working hard and working fast doesn't have to come at the expense of a healthy work-life balance. One of the greatest benefits of working at CREtelligent is that you will find yourself surrounded by incredible and intelligent people with a shared mission. On top of it all, we deliver the benefits you'd expect and beyond including:

• CREtelligent offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees. This package includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, medical transportation plan, critical illness insurance, pet insurance, legal insurance and more

• We offer a 401(k) with employer profit match contribution, when we profit, you do too!

• Competitive compensation package range: $90,000 to $150,000

• On-site gym for that quick workout during the day.

• Wellness, wellness, wellness is a major mantra at CREtelligent. We believe in the importance of supporting you to be the best version of YOU. You are OUR priority.

Flexible Time Off
Take time as you need it, your position is part of our professional paid time off plan with no tracking and no accruals, very simply put - work hard play hard.
Fun
Off-site adventures, unique traditions, monthly birthday celebrations, Lunch and Learns, and a relaxed office environment. Show up and be your wonderful self.
Flexibility
Having the ability to adjust your work schedule to meet both the needs of your team and those of your personal life is just as important to us as it is to you. This means most days you'll work a 8-to-5 schedule in the office with your team; however, we get you have a family and life where you'll need some flexibility, and you'll have that with us. We hire you as a professional and we'll treat you like one.
Family
We believe in supporting strong family units from day one. This starts with supporting parents with paid maternity and paternity leave. As the primary caregiver to a newborn, we provide 12 weeks paid leave + another 4 weeks of part-time paid transition time to support your return. As the supporting caregiver, we provide 6 weeks of paid leave. As part of the CREtelligent team, your health and happiness are directly connected to that of your families we get this and make it a priority.
Community Outreach Volunteer Time Off
We provide all full-time employees with a half day of paid volunteer time off. Volunteering and supporting our local communities is an important part of our culture, we put our money where our mouth is to support you in making a difference in your local community.
Office Fuel
We're an environment that cares about your well-being. We provide healthy (and fun) snacks, drinks, coffee, and a doughnut or two to sweeten things up - that includes a freezer full of ice-cream for those 100+degree days.
Opportunities for Professional Growth and Development
Communication and Professional Development

• To stay connected we hold monthly all team huddles and quarterly all hands meetings to celebrate milestones, share updates, and welcome new hires.

• Our managers hold regular employee one on one sessions to support your goal achievement and personal development. Frequent opportunities for professional development are provided, be it lunch and learns, webinars or out of the office events.

• We are a growing firm with a national footprint ready to support your career advancement. Your professional development and career progression is important to us - when you learn and grow, so do we.

The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: CREtelligent is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce committed to leveraging diverse backgrounds, perspective and experiences that create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to protected category.