About Palouse Homes

Palouse Homes is a vertically integrated real estate company managing ~1,000 multifamily units across Washington and Montana. From acquisitions to property management to maintenance, we operate the full lifecycle of housing with a single mission: scaling high-quality, affordable housing in underserved U.S. markets.

We are now building our automation layer — reducing manual work, eliminating repetitive processes, and designing systems that allow a lean team manage a growing portfolio efficiently.

The Role

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to help us systematically automate property management workflows that are currently manual, repetitive, and error-prone.

You’ll start by deeply understanding how our operations actually work today, shadowing property managers, leasing staff, and accounting. From there, you’ll design, prototype, and implement automation using APIs, AI tools, and workflow software.

What You’ll Do

Phase 1: Learn the Business

- Shadow property management, leasing, and compliance teams
- Map existing workflows end-to-end (including edge cases and exceptions)
- Identify high-leverage automation opportunities

Phase 2: Build & Automate

- Use the AppFolio API to extract, transform, and sync property management data
- Build dashboards that combine multiple AppFolio reports into a single, actionable view
- Prototype tools using AI-assisted development (Cursor, Replit, VS Code, etc.)
- Design automations using tools like Zapier, scripts, or lightweight service
- Reduce manual paperwork, duplicated data entry, and human error

Example Projects

- Automate tenant notices (renewals,



pay-or-vacate, certified mail workflows)
- Create leasing and occupancy dashboards by munging AppFolio exports and API data
- Streamline tenant screening and recertification workflows involving heavy documentation

What We’re Looking For

Technical Skills (Required)

- Basic software engineering skills (scripting, APIs, data manipulation)
- Comfortable coding with modern tools (VS Code, Cursor, Replit, similar)
- Familiarity with workflow automation tools (Zapier or equivalent)
- Ability to work with REST APIs (especially AppFolio API or similar PMS systems)

Mindset & Approach

- Strong systems thinker—able to see how tools, people, and processes interact
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and imperfect systems
- Able to translate messy real-world workflows into clean, scalable systems

Nice to Have

- Experience in real estate, property management, or operations-heavy businesses

Why This Role Matters

- You’ll directly reduce operational drag across hundreds of units
- Your work compounds—every automation scales with the portfolio
- You’ll help define how a modern, tech-enabled property management platform operates

Join Us If you enjoy turning messy operations into elegant systems—and want to apply modern automation and AI tools to real, high-stakes workflows—we’d love to talk.

Palouse Homes is an equal-opportunity employer. We value clarity, curiosity, and people who build.

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s)

- Please provide your github handle
- Briefly describe any vibe-coded or AI-assisted coding projects you've built

Work Location: Remote

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