Senior Software Engineer

Kiavi • Pittsburgh, PA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses. Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country. Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more. Loans Funded: $27 billion in loans funded Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country Geography: 45 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods Employees: Over 450 employees with competitive benefits and perks This position is located in Pittsburg, PA. This will still be a remote first role with desire to be in our Pittsburgh office up to one day a week. Your day to day Engineer: Architect and own large parts of our complex loan origination platform and associated web applications. Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality through peer-reviewed designs and code, focusing on test automation using unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Reduce Technical Debt: We allocate a certain percentage of each team’s time to tackling engineering initiatives focused on reducing tech debt. Every engineer contributes to these initiatives. Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis. Collaborate: Work closely with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers. Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy. Define Technical Strategy: You’ll own technical strategy for broad or complex requirements and come up with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems. Who we’re looking for We are looking for backend and full stack engineers. Our product-oriented teams are cross-functional and are able to work quickly without taking dependencies in order to deliver the most impact in the shortest amount of time. These cross-functional teams operate like small independent business units with their own goals that align with the company goals.

Requirements

• You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience.
• You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products.
• You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail.
• You are candid and honest. You can adapt your communication style to different audiences and you can effectively communicate in writing and in person or on a video call.
• You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow.
• You are able to get a lot done quickly. You are willing to introduce new processes and technologies to the team that will improve productivity across the whole engineering team.
• You show the ability to grow into a company leader. You will work with other leaders across the company to build company culture and to help shape the company’s future.

Nice To Haves

• Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Kotlin although we are generally language agnostic. We expect that if you’ve learned more than one programming language you can learn ours.
• Frontend Frameworks: React and GraphQL
• Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka
• Databases: Postgres, Redis
• Service Oriented Architecture: We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us.
• AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own large parts of our complex loan origination platform and associated web applications.
• Champion code quality through peer-reviewed designs and code, focusing on test automation using unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• We allocate a certain percentage of each team’s time to tackling engineering initiatives focused on reducing tech debt. Every engineer contributes to these initiatives.
• Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.
• Work closely with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers.
• Ensure that our customers are successful and happy.
• You’ll own technical strategy for broad or complex requirements and come up with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Kiavi offers free employee-only coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans. Dependents receive a heavily discounted premium, competitively placed in the 90th percentile for cost.
• Health Savings Account (HSA): For those enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), Kiavi provides an annual employer contribution to HSAs: $1,000 for individual coverage and $2,000 for dependents.
• Disability and Life Insurance: Immediate access to short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as group life and AD&D insurance, with coverage at 1x annual salary.
• Remote Work Policy: Kiavi supports working remotely for day to day activities for most roles and occasionally may ask employees to gather in person for key meetings, training, team building etc. For remote workers, Kiavi offers a one-time office setup reimbursement of up to $500 and a monthly $85 stipend for internet and phone expenses. For in-office workers, Kiavi offers employer contributions to commuter benefits account, either for parking or public transportation.
• Flexible Time Off: Employees are empowered to manage their own time off, with no strict limits, as long as it's approved by their manager.
• Paid Leaves: Up to 8 weeks of paid leave for medical or caregiver purposes, and 12 weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave. Short-term disability leave is also available for birthing mothers.
• 401(k) & Company Match: A 401(k) plan managed by Fidelity, with Kiavi matching 100% of contributions up to 3% of compensation or $8,000 (whichever is less). All employer contributions are immediately vested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees