Commercial real estate data platform with geospatial intelligence and workflow tools
LightBox operates a data infrastructure and workflow platform for the commercial real estate sector, built on a Microsoft/.NET stack (C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server) with Snowflake and Java supporting data operations. The company faces a classic modernization challenge: legacy application maintenance and web-platform upkeep compete for engineering cycles alongside scaling API traffic and big-data transformation tasks. Hiring velocity is accelerating across senior technical roles, suggesting efforts to decouple from technical debt while building next-generation APIs and licensing capabilities.
LightBox is a commercial real estate information and technology platform founded in 2019, headquartered in New York, and serving brokers, developers, investors, lenders, insurers, and government agencies with authoritative property data, geospatial intelligence, and integrated workflows. The platform combines real estate databases, valuation tools, environmental due-diligence capabilities, and broker-facing solutions. Current product focus spans new API architectures for data licensing, ownership intelligence features to drive upsells, and complex data-licensing agreement management. The company operates at 501–1,000 employees across the United States.
LightBox's core stack is Microsoft/.NET (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Active Directory, IIS) with Snowflake for data warehousing, Java for backend services, and Apigee for API management. Frontend uses HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
Current projects include a next-generation data platform APIs, enterprise data licensing growth initiatives, ownership intelligence features to drive upsells, and complex data-licensing agreement workflows. The company is also managing the legacy RIMS application and resolving critical incident management.
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