While commentators grumble and Amazon rumbles with city hall over the head tax, a swath of local startups are bringing innovation to the real estate industry from all angles. Here are eight of our favorites — and they’re all growing.

We spoke to coders at seven Seattle-area startups and mid-sized tech companies about how they first became interested in engineering.

In part two of a two-part series on engineering team culture, we spoke to four more Seattle tech leaders about the secret sauce that binds and lifts their engineers together.