UpCodes

UpCodes is a compliance and product research platform built for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Trusted by roughly 800,000 monthly active users, the platform brings building codes, code commentary, and related product research into a single, searchable source of truth so that designers and builders can spend less time hunting for compliance information and more time designing and building.

The company describes the construction industry as burdened by unnecessary costs and complexity, with billions of dollars wasted on rework every year. UpCodes positions its tools as a way to reduce that friction by making codes easier to find, read, and apply. Its users include architects, engineers, contractors, and code officials, whom the platform serves with a multi-dimensional view of adopted codes, structured code research, and streamlined project management.

UpCodes was founded in 2016 and is a participant in Y Combinator’s S17 batch. It has grown into a platform used by a large and active community, with users collectively spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the product. The company’s public materials frame its purpose simply: to help people build affordably, quickly, and enjoyably, and to create a real-world, tangible impact on the homes, schools, hospitals, and offices its users construct.

Product work spans both content and engineering. Open roles describe backend projects such as using large language models to identify references to other sections within the text of the law, improving and migrating the data model behind hosted content, retrieving semi-structured data from online sources and automating its structuring, and refining the evaluation framework for the search engine. The engineering stack includes Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Pinecone, and OpenAI.

The company is fully distributed, with a remote team based across North and South America working within North American time zones. UpCodes offers flexible hours and autonomy over schedules, 25 days of paid time off plus holidays, employer-sponsored medical, dental, vision, mental health, and 401k plans, a home office setup stipend, and an annual company-wide meetup to strengthen bonds across the team.

UpCodes articulates its culture through three traits: competent, hard-working, and humble. In practice, that means being talented and open to learning new skills, being reliable and trustworthy self-starters who enjoy the craft and process, embracing a growth mindset, and staying open to feedback and to other people’s ideas. Employee testimonials published on the careers page emphasize psychological safety, recognition of good work, low internal competition, and a sense of individual impact.

The company supports its users through multiple channels, including a support phone line, live chat, and email, and it maintains an in-house team of building-code experts who work alongside product, content, and engineering staff. Its public contact address is 1606 Headway Circle #9083, Austin, TX 78754.