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Senior Software Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch
3 days ago
Full-time
Remote
United States
$150,000,300,000 - $150,000,300,000 USD yearly
Software / Technology / IT
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Title of Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: United States (Remote)
Company Stage of Funding: Series B, Venture-Backed
Office Type: Remote
Salary: $150,000 – $300,000 + Equity

Company Description

Our client is a rapidly growing, venture-backed fintech and AI company transforming the home lending industry. Mortgage lenders today rely on legacy systems that are often decades old—slow, inefficient, and expensive to operate. Our client is building AI-native infrastructure to automate mortgage workflows, with a long-term vision of enabling fully automated loan origination.

Since launching in 2020, the company’s platform has supported over $85 billion in home loans, helping lenders dramatically improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. With $40M in funding and strong growth, the team is expanding quickly and looking for talented engineers who enjoy solving complex problems at scale.

This is an opportunity to join a small, high-performing remote team building systems that could power a significant portion of home lending in the United States.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building and scaling AI-driven software systems that automate complex lending workflows.

You will:

  • Architect and build AI-powered automation systems and agents used by lenders to streamline operational workflows.

  • Design and implement scalable backend services and distributed systems that process large volumes of mortgage data.

  • Integrate with third-party financial and lending APIs for document generation, underwriting automation, fraud prevention, and other critical services.

  • Develop full-stack product features from design through production deployment.

  • Build and evolve infrastructure on AWS to improve system reliability, observability, and scalability.

  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact features quickly.

  • Contribute to system architecture decisions and maintain high standards for code quality, security, and performance.

  • Mentor engineers and help improve development processes across the team.

Engineers at the company typically ship production code quickly and take ownership of mission-critical systems early in their tenure.

Ideal Candidate Background

The ideal candidate is a product-oriented builder who enjoys shipping software quickly and solving complex technical problems in fast-moving startup environments.

You may be a great fit if you have:

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, ideally at startups or high-growth technology companies.

  • Strong experience building full-stack web applications and shipping production software end-to-end.

  • Deep proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript in modern web applications.

  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.

  • A track record of owning projects from concept to deployment.

  • Experience building scalable backend systems or distributed services.

  • A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced remote team.

Preferred Experience

The following experience is helpful but not required:

  • Familiarity with modern AI product development workflows (experimentation, evaluations, dataset design).

  • Experience building systems using React, Node.js, GraphQL, or Postgres.

  • Experience scaling high-throughput distributed systems.

  • Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, or Elasticsearch.

  • Strong understanding of database schema design and relational data modeling.

  • Experience building systems that require high security and data protection standards.

  • Interest in mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering culture.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base Salary: $150,000 – $300,000

  • Equity: Competitive equity package

  • Remote-first environment with flexible working arrangements

  • Opportunity to join a rapidly scaling venture-backed company

  • Work on products impacting a multi-trillion-dollar industry

  • Collaborate with a small, high-caliber engineering team focused on building high-quality software at speed

If you enjoy building products from the ground up, working with modern AI-driven systems, and solving complex real-world problems, this role offers an exciting opportunity to have significant technical impact while helping reshape the future of home lending.