
Generalist Software Engineer
Pylon
San Francisco, CA • 36m ago • On-site
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Quick Facts
Role: Generalist Software Engineer (Software Engineer)
Focus: Building an API-first mortgage platform in a regulated industry
Ownership: Take full ownership of outcomes; improve code, product, and infrastructure
Description
You’ll join a small engineering team building an ambitious mortgage platform from the ground up. The work is complex and high-impact: you’ll ship code to an intelligent, opinionated customer base, defend technical choices, and improve maintainability and reduce toil. You’ll operate in a regulated environment where breaking changes are not acceptable.
Responsibilities
Ship exceptional, high-impact code and continuously improve it
Participate in rigorous technical discussion and defend design decisions
Take initiative to make the codebase, product, and infrastructure better
Work effectively under ambiguity and conflicting constraints
Help evolve the system with a “monolith until it hurts” philosophy
Requirements
Strong opinions and willingness to defend technical decisions in vigorous debate
Consistent ability to deliver exceptional code
Great ideas and initiative to improve code, product, and infrastructure
Self-motivation; drive goals forward with minimal hand-holding
Comfort making decisions under uncertainty
Confidence to learn quickly in a complex mortgage and engineering domain
Strong preference for strong typing
Ability to work responsibly in a federally and state-regulated space
Benefits
Stock options
Health insurance
401K
Dental
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