About the company
Our client is an AI-native mortgage technology company rebuilding loan origination from the ground up. Its platform already supports more than $85B in home loans, and a top-10 U.S. mortgage lender is on track to go live by the end of 2026. The company has raised $44M, including a recently closed $30M Series B, has approximately 80 employees, and is positioned to become profitable as its flagship customer launches.
The role and why it matters
This is a senior or staff-level platform engineering role for a hands-on software engineer who can treat infrastructure as a product. You will build the self-service systems, TypeScript libraries, deployment automation, and reliability foundations that let product engineers ship quickly and safely as the company scales.
What you'll do
• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi across compute, networking, storage, security, and data services.
• Design and maintain internal developer tooling, TypeScript libraries, shared SDKs, code generation, command-line tools, and reusable frameworks.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Buildkite and maintain per-pull-request ephemeral environments.
• Improve reliability through service-level objectives, error budgets, autoscaling, observability, and incident response.
• Solve performance and scale challenges across Aurora PostgreSQL, distributed services, and an AI-native mortgage platform.
• Partner with product engineers to make development, testing, and deployment fast, consistent, and safe.
• Document complex systems clearly and raise the technical standard across the engineering organization.
Requirements
What we're looking for
• Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial platform, infrastructure, or backend work.
• Strong experience at a high-growth technology startup.
• Recent hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and per-pull-request environments, ideally with Buildkite.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js, including the ability to navigate and make meaningful changes to a production codebase.
• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, security, and data services.
• Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi skills, including modules, workspaces, and CI-driven plan and apply workflows.
• Experience with service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, and production observability.
• A track record of shipping production code, not solely administering infrastructure or coordinating other engineers.
• Strong written communication and the ability to document complex systems.
Bonus points
• Hands-on Buildkite optimization experience.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, shared SDKs, code generation, or frameworks.
• Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, distributed tracing, or comparable observability systems.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
• $150K-$350K base salary, depending on seniority and experience. Senior-level compensation may reach $300K base, while staff-level compensation may reach $350K base.
• Competitive equity.
• Medical premiums covered at 100% for employees and their families, plus dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k), HSA and FSA options, and flexible time off.
• This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfers. Candidates must already have unrestricted U.S. work authorization.
Location and work model
This is a full-time, remote role based in the United States. The company operates as a remote-first team.
Skills Required
- Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial platform, infrastructure, or backend work
- Strong experience at a high-growth technology startup
- Recent hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and per-pull-request environments
- Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js, including production codebase experience
- Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, security, and data services
- Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi skills, including modules, workspaces, and CI-driven plan and apply workflows
- Experience with service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, and production observability
- Track record of shipping production code rather than solely administering infrastructure or coordinating engineers
- Strong written communication and ability to document complex systems
- Buildkite experience
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, shared SDKs, code generation, or frameworks
- Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, distributed tracing, or comparable observability systems
- Unrestricted U.S. work authorization without visa sponsorship or transfer
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
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