Real estate software development teams that have shipped real proptech.
Hire dedicated senior real estate engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We have placed engineers behind real proptech, including the team at Realquantum, a commercial real estate valuation platform. Pre-vetted, full-time, and ready in as little as 7 days.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefive years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 700+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building it for you. Your real estate team, building with you.
Most real estate software development companies quote you a six- or seven-figure fixed-bid project, build it behind a vendor wall, and hand it back. We staff dedicated senior engineers into your team. You own them, manage them, and keep them.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid project, scoped up front, priced in the hundreds of thousands
- Engineers walled off behind an account manager
- 30 to 40% overhead for layers you never meet
- Hand-off at the end, and the knowledge walks out the door
The Full Scale staff-augmentation model
Dedicated engineers, embedded in your team
- $35/hr fully loaded, scale up or down as the roadmap changes
- Engineers in your standups, Slack, repo, and roadmap
- No vendor wall and no PM tax, you manage them directly
- 93%+ retention means the engineers, and the knowledge, stay
Co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM in the auto industry ($150M+ exit), and founded Stackify
Built by a founder who has shipped and sold real software
Full Scale was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time founder and CTO with 20+ years in software engineering. He co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM platform in the auto industry, acquired for around $150 million, and founded Stackify, a developer-tools company he later sold. He also wrote Product Driven, the engineering-leadership method every Full Scale engineer is trained on.
Full Scale exists because Matt kept hitting the same wall as an operator: good products stall when you can't hire and keep good engineers. That is the problem we solve, and it is why we vet for the senior, product-minded engineers most staffing shops never find.
Engineers experienced across the real estate stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped real estate software solutions before and know where the data and integration landmines are.
Property management platforms
Leasing, maintenance, accounting, and resident workflows for residential and commercial portfolios.
CRE valuation & analytics
Commercial valuation models, cap-rate and comp analysis, rent rolls, and reporting dashboards.
Listing, MLS & portals
Search and listing portals, MLS and IDX feeds, map-based discovery, and lead capture.
Transaction management
Deal pipelines, e-signature and document workflows, escrow tracking, and closing checklists.
Tenant & owner portals
Self-service portals for rent payments, statements, work orders, and owner reporting.
Real estate CRM
Custom real estate software development for lead routing, follow-up automation, and pipeline tracking.
Engineers who build for security and clean integrations from the start
Real estate software handles payments, contracts, and sensitive owner and tenant data. Our engineers treat security and access control as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
Real estate teams we've staffed
Engineering capacity for a commercial real estate valuation platform
Senior engineers worked alongside the in-house team on Realquantum's commercial real estate valuation software, which helps CRE appraisers produce and manage valuations.
Rebuilding the rate platform for private mortgage insurance
A dedicated team rebuilt the core rate-comparison engine for a real estate finance product with no hand-off gaps.
“They felt like our team, not a vendor.”Nomi Smith, CEO
Read the case study →Scaling a commercial real estate lending platform
LendingStandard's software processes approximately 30% of affordable multifamily property loans nationwide. When local hiring in Kansas City couldn't keep pace, Full Scale supplied a fully integrated development team instead of a vendor relationship.
“Waking up each morning to collaborate with the Full Scale team has become the highlight of my day.”Andy Kallenbach, CEO
Read the case study →The real estate specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Frontend engineers
React, Angular, dashboards
Data engineers
MLS feeds, valuation pipelines
Payments integration
Stripe, ACH, escrow flows
Mobile engineers
iOS, Android, Flutter
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for money flows
Solutions architects
System & data design
The real estate stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Maps & data
Why most offshore real estate teams fail, and how to not be one of them
The mistake isn't going offshore. It's hiring the cheapest developer you can find and hoping the data integrations and payment flows sort themselves out. I call that cheapshoring, and in real estate software it's how you end up with broken MLS feeds and a rewrite.
Real estate software is full of messy data, third-party feeds, and money moving between parties. You need engineers who understand that a bad valuation number or a dropped transaction is a real problem for a real client. That's a hiring bar, not a rate, which is the whole reason we accept under 3% of applicants and train every engineer on the Product Driven method.
From call to coding in as little as 7 days
- 1Tell us the real estate roles and stack you need
- 2We match pre-vetted engineers from our bench
- 3You interview and pick your team
- 4They start in your standups, repo, and roadmap
Real Estate Software Development Services, answered
- What kinds of real estate software can your engineers build?
- Property management platforms, CRE valuation and analytics, listing and MLS portals, transaction management, tenant and owner portals, and real estate CRM. We staff engineers who have shipped real estate software solutions before.
- Is this a fixed-bid project or a dedicated team?
- A dedicated team. We are a staff augmentation partner, so you get engineers embedded in your team at $35/hr, not a turnkey project quote.
- How fast can a real estate team start?
- As little as seven days from the first call to engineers in your standups, drawing from a pre-vetted bench.
- Who owns the code and the IP?
- You do, from day one. Our engineers work in your repositories under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
Real estate engineering guides
Fintech software development
Our sibling practice for mortgage and proptech-fintech.
The Product Driven method
How we train engineers to think like owners.
Staff augmentation vs. a dev shop
Why owning the team beats handing off the build.
Cheapshoring: the real estate version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.