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Senior Software Engineer (Remote, U.S. ONLY)

πŸ’° $150,000 - $230,000 🌍 San Francisco, California πŸ“… 10/28/2025

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Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (Remote, U.S.)

5–25 years as a software engineer (open to all skill levels; preference for
senior engineers).

We are looking for senior software engineers to help lead our team in powering
the future of home buying in the U.S., working with financial assets worth
trillions of dollars.

What to Expect
As an engineer on the team, you'll:

Ship code to production quickly and work on mission-critical projects within
your first month.

Architect, build, and launch complex, multi-step AI agents used to digitize
operational workflows and save millions of dollars per year.

Integrate with 3rd-party providers of lending services APIs to generate
documents, produce automated underwriting results, or prevent fraud.

Architect, build, and launch the next generation of job processing
infrastructure on AWS to improve backend reliability and observability.

Tech Stack

TypeScript (frontend and backend)

React (frontend)

Node.js / Express (backend) running inside Docker

GraphQL / Apollo

PostgreSQL

AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and more)

Terraform for infrastructure management

Engineering Practices

End-to-end Type Safety: Types generated from Postgres and GraphQL schemas to
catch incompatible changes early.

Full-Stack Code Sharing: Seamless sharing of TypeScript files between client,
server, and other packages.

Reproducible Infrastructure: Terraform-managed infrastructure with CI
pipelines that deploy temporary staging environments per pull request.

First-Class Testing Utilities: Comprehensive library for end-to-end,
integration, and performance tests to ensure reliability while moving fast.

Experience

5–25 years as a software engineer (open to all skill levels; preference for
senior engineers).

β€œBuilder” mindset; ability to contribute meaningfully to product and codebase.

For less experienced candidates: hackathon winners, founders, or strong GitHub
contributors only.

Position Details

Remote (U.S.)

Full-time

Desired Skills
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Kafka,
Elasticsearch)