Back End Engineer
- Location
- Palo Alto, New York
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $230k – $260k + equity
- Visa
- Visa Sponsorship Available
About this role
What we're looking for
We are seeking a Back End Engineer with a product-oriented mindset to join our API team. You should have experience building public-facing APIs, ideally with GraphQL, and a proven ability to model complex business domains into simple code. You are comfortable working closely with customers and subject matter experts to translate their needs into a delightful user experience.
What you'll do
- Define the semantics of a mortgage in code, working on models that don't just represent the present but expand what's possible in the future.
- Design, build, and maintain our core GraphQL API, treating it as a product that our customers depend on.
- Help build out our event-driven architecture, moving our API to a world where it proactively communicates what happened, why, and what to do next.
- Create thoughtful abstractions and clear documentation to make the complex mortgage process impossible for developers to get wrong.
- Work closely with subject matter experts and customers to incorporate feedback and iterate on API designs.
- Own the full lifecycle of the API, including versioning, breaking changes, and developer onboarding.
What happens next
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Culture & values
Team leans heavily on each other for support
Small team environment where individuals have significant ability to put ideas into action
Generalist-oriented culture; specialization is not prioritized
Growth mindset with expectation that employees will be handed difficult tasks and may fail sometimes
Culture of shipping and iterating with intelligent, opinionated customers regularly
Optimization of quality and speed over performative long hours
High ownership culture where finding broken things means you are probably the best one to fix it
First-principles thinking and deep technology investments valued over cargo-culting
Fast-moving pace balanced with responsibility in regulated environment
Emphasis on code maintainability and toil reduction
Research project-like work environment with continuous learning
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