5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in complex systems.
Proficiency in Typescript; familiarity with Haskell or Rust is a plus.
Experience with web technologies, including GraphQL and PostgreSQL.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work under ambiguity.
Comfortable with rapid iteration and shipping to demanding customers.
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies.
Responsibilities
Design and implement robust software solutions for complex mortgage problems.
Collaborate with a small team to tackle challenging engineering tasks.
Drive improvements in code quality and system architecture.
Engage in rigorous discussions to defend technical decisions.
Take ownership of projects from conception to deployment.
Benefits
Stock options to share in the company's success.
Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision.
401K plan to support your retirement savings.
Flexible work environment that encourages innovation and initiative.
Full Job Description
About you
You:
Have strong opinions that you're willing to defend. We have a culture of vigorous discussion and debate on technical decisions. We'll push you to defend your choices, and we want you to push back.
Don't settle. Challenge yourself to frequently and consistently deliver exceptional code. If something could be better, take the initiative to improve it.
Have great ideas, and lots of them. You should see opportunities all around you to make the code, product and infrastructure better. We'll give you an environment where you can act on those ideas.
Are self-motivated. You can take a goal and drive towards it without needing extensive hand-holding. The team is supportive and loves to share knowledge and advice, but there's no time for micromanaging your work.
Are comfortable with ambiguity. There's a million ways to do things; you should feel at ease making a decision under uncertainty while balancing competing constraints.
Are confident you can learn quickly. Mortgage is complex, our platform is complex, good software engineering is complex. You've got to have an attitude that you can absorb it, get on top of it, and build something better than what came before.
Love strong typing. We're a team full of people who love Haskell and Rust (and Idris!) and take pride in pushing Typescript to its limits.
About the Team What we're not:
Building a CRUD app:
We're building a platform that's only possible due to deep technology investments and thinking hard from first principles. Cargo-culting what's come before won't be sufficient.
If you're looking to do mostly plumbing / lego piece assembling, Pylon may be very frustrating for you
A ChatGPT wrapper:
Mortgage is a sprawling mess of problems, and there isn't one tool that solves every one of them. We use LLMs, but we've reached for tools in multiple disciplines like mixed-integer linear optimization and programming language research.
An easy job:
We're building a lot of things from the ground up for the first time. Working at Pylon is like a research project where you have to ship to intelligent, opinionated customers regularly.
It's basically guaranteed you'll be handed a task that is too difficult for you to do. You might fail sometimes. You might have no idea where to start. Our team leans heavily on each other, but there's no getting around the difficulties.
What we are:
A small team:
We don't have an army of engineers. If you find something is broken, you are probably the best one to fix it
All the code we write has to punch above its weight in maintainability and toil reduction
If you have a good idea, you have much more ability to put it into action than at a large company
We need generalists: specialization is for big companies that already have everything figured out. If you're smart, flexible and like getting into everything, we want you.
Working in a regulated space:
Mortgage is regulated both federally and at the state level.
We move fast, but breaking things isn't an option.
About the Job Basics
Job title: Software Engineer
Stock options: own a piece of the company and we all win together
Health insurance, 401K, dental, etc.
Our technology stack:
We don't require that you've worked with any of these technologies before, this is just our stack for your information:
Typescript front and backend
Web components
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
NestJS web framework
Nx build system
Sagittarius
AWS stack using CDK for declarative infrastructure
We currently use ECS rather than Kubernetes. If you have questions about this choice and want to know more, please apply!
General philosophy: monolith until it hurts. If we can do something without introducing a new service, we will
