Senior Software Engineer, Home Loans
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The role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, building a cutting edge technology platform to automate our loan process.
On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing new functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting mission critical systems. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as helping mold and grow the junior members of the team.
A loans platform is instrumental in 10xing the company, and you have the opportunity to help shape and guide that future and exponentially grow the customer base of this product.
What you’ll do:
We’re looking for back-end or full-stack engineers who are comfortable:
- Architecting, designing, and delivering scalable, highly available services
- Owning and ideating on technical solutions for product requirements and user stories
- Participating heavily in code and design reviews
- Generating ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Becoming domain experts on the Home Loans business
- Collaborating and representing engineering with outside stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance
- Working in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment across multiple offices
- Mentoring more junior members of the team and helping foster a learning environment within the team
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 3+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
- Our core stack is React / Java / Spring / PostgreSQL. Expertise with any modern Javascript frameworks, REST APIs and relational databases is a great start.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Exceptional sense of responsibility and ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Nice to have:
- Full-stack engineering experience, or a willingness and passion to broaden your technical skill set
- Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
- Experience solving data heavy problems
- A passion for well-tested code and utilizing testing frameworks
- Machine learning experience
Why you’ll love working here:
- Competitive salary packages and bonuses
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
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