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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