About Lendesk
We’re a financial technology company on a mission to make the mortgage experience easy, accessible, and transparent. Our flagship product is an advanced digital mortgage origination platform that connects borrowers, brokers, and lenders. We’re a fast-growing team of 60+ employees, composed of innovative and engaged individuals working collaboratively to deliver a unique digital home buying experience.
The Role
We're looking for a Sr. Full Stack Developer (remote) to add to our dynamic and motivated team. The ideal candidate will be familiar with commonly used tools such as Node.js, React.js and Redux and be comfortable working at any level of the stack. You will also need to be opinionated on the use of automation tools for building, testing and releasing your software to a live production environment. Please do not apply if you are not familiar with node.js and services.
You’ll Be Responsible For:
- develop front end applications and work on services.
- code-review other developers' code.
- write technical documentation, tests and stories.
- participate in design and requirements workshops, stand-ups, retrospectives.
- participate in developer roundtable sessions to help improve our process, tooling and techniques.
- manage deployments of features to production.
- shape and continuously improve our development process.
- coach junior developers and assist with regular lunch and learn sessions
Our Core Technology Stack:
- Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript)
- React (with Redux for state management)
- Postgres
- AWS Services (S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, etc.)
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform
What You Bring:
- working with services built in Javacript frameworks (bonus points for Node)
- working with designers to transform mockups into functional user interfaces.
- with JavaScript development, testing and debugging
- with a JavaScript framework (preferably React).
- with UI state management (e.g. with Redux).
- styling front end applications with CSS and/or SASS.
- presenting your ideas and code to other members of the team.
- working with testing frameworks
- clearly presenting your ideas and code to other developers, and accepting and incorporating constructive feedback for further iterations.
Bonus Points:
- familiarity with JavaScript bundling tools (e.g. Webpack).
- experience with analytics tooling.
- experience with Lambda and AWS.
- experience with financial software or working in the Fintech world
- understanding of Agile / Scrum practices
- experience with paired programming and other extreme programming practices
What We Offer
In addition to the exciting work, great people and a fun and supportive culture, we offer an extensive benefits and perks package:
- Competitive salaries
- Comprehensive benefit plan including dental, medical and vision
- Remote first, work from where you are in Canada
- Budget to improve your home office set-up
- Flexible work hours
- The latest in hardware and software tools
- Budget for continuous development and training
- Stock purchase program in our parent company (“NYSE:RKT”)
You must be a current Canadian resident to be considered for this role. A candidate selected for this position must pass a criminal background check.
Lendesk is committed to offering competitive salaries to all our team members. This role has a salary range of $120,000-150,000. For experienced candidates, we typically hire at or near the midpoint of the salary band to ensure there’s room for continued growth and development. Compensation is determined based on the skills, experience, and qualifications you bring to the team, as well as the impact you will have on the business and the growth you’ll achieve in the role. Throughout your time at Lendesk we’ll continue to have conversations about your career development and you’ll have the opportunity to build an amazing career with us.
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What We Do
Lendesk is a Canadian technology company modernizing the mortgage industry with solutions trusted by brokers, financial institutions, and industry partners alike. Our flagship products, Finmo and Lender Spotlight, are widely recognized for simplifying mortgage origination and workflows. Guided by our mission to help people feel confident in their mortgage decisions and deliver seamless experiences, we build tools that simplify complexity and drive measurable impact across the mortgage ecosystem.
We’re a team of 70+ people, including over 40 focused on product and software. Lendesk is technology first, with the scale and talent to build solutions that make a real impact. At the same time, we were founded by mortgage professionals and continue to be guided by their insights. The result is technology that is both highly innovative and firmly grounded in real-world lending experience.
