Software Engineer

Loancrate•Los Angeles, CA

6h•Remote

About The Position

We started Loancrate to make home-buying simpler and less expensive for lenders and borrowers (us!). Today, mortgage lenders are stuck running their companies on software products built 20 years ago. These products are slow, unstable and don’t lead to material improvements in efficiency. When using these systems, the average human cost to originate a loan is still over $11,000. Loancrate builds AI native tooling to automate mortgage workflows. Our ultimate goal is fully automated origination, which has the potential to save lenders over $16B in operating expense per year. Since starting in 2020, our remote team has enabled our customers to power >$85 billion in new home loans. We are a group of people excited to tackle the complexity of the home-lending industry. We care about collaboration, very open communication covering the good & the bad so that we learn from our decisions quickly, and ultimately having fun while we're building. You'll fit in well if you like diving deep quickly! Our dreams are big and we have much to build! We're looking for senior software engineers to help lead our team in powering the future of home buying in the US (which could entail managing a majority of US home loans every year — financial assets worth trillions of dollars). We are excited to offer competitive salary and equity for this role. As an engineer at Loancrate, you'll continue our team tradition by shipping code to production on your first day! Following that, within your first month, you'll dive into your first mission-critical project, such as... 🙈 Architecting, building, and launching complex, multi-step AI agents that our customers use to digitize their ops workflows and save millions of dollars per year. 🤝 Integrating with 3rd-party providers of lending services APIs to generate documents/disclosures, produce automated underwriting results, or prevent fraud. 🏗 Architecting, building, and launching the next generation of our job processing infrastructure on AWS to make Loancrate's back end more observable and reliable.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with modern AI product development lifecycles (evals, experiment design, dataset curation, etc). We don’t just build AI chat bots. We wrangle non-deterministic LLMs into reliable mission-critical systems.
A constant and keen eye for security risks — we store and display some of people's most sensitive personal data and need to keep it safe!
A desire to be product-oriented, from thinking through the product implications of what you're building to contributing your unique ideas of how to improve the product.
Ability to develop readable, maintainable, and effective software architecture patterns that support use of our product by various enterprise customers (each with thousands of employees and their own methods for running their companies).
Excitement to mentor less senior engineers in both hard and soft skills.
SRE-oriented mindset for developing infrastructure that's reliable, observable, and requires minimal toil to maintain.
Experience scaling high-throughput distributed systems in the cloud. Bonus points if you're experienced with infrastructure-as-code solutions like Terraform or CloudFormation!
Ability to develop full-stack web app features from design through deployment.
Experience designing and scaling complex relational DB schemas, as well as figuring out performant ways to store, retrieve, and update such data. Home loans have thousands of data fields 🙃.