Loancrate

Senior Software Engineer - Platform

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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$170k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve AWS infrastructure managed with Terraform and Pulumi Cloud.
  • Build internal developer tooling, shared libraries, code-generation systems, SDKs, data-access patterns, and service scaffolding.
  • Create golden paths for service setup, background jobs, event streams, and APIs with secure and observable defaults.
  • Build and maintain Buildkite CI/CD pipelines and per-PR ephemeral environments.
  • Drive reliability through SLOs, autoscaling, incident response, postmortems, and on-call participation.
  • Create observability and instrumentation tooling using Datadog, CloudWatch, and Sentry.
  • Enforce security practices covering IAM, secrets management, encryption, audit logging, and DDoS protection.
  • Own Aurora PostgreSQL provisioning, backups, failover, performance tuning, and safe-use tooling.
  • Reduce engineering toil through automation and self-service platform experiences.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and technical documentation.

Requirements

  • Strong TypeScript skills and API design experience.
  • Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, and security services.
  • Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi proficiency, including modules, workspaces, and CI-driven plan/apply workflows.
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems for large engineering teams.
  • Experience building production observability stacks, distributed tracing, and SLOs.
  • Experience creating internal platforms, developer tooling, code generators, CLIs, templates, shared SDKs, or frameworks.
  • Experience establishing secure and reliable golden paths, instrumentation helpers, policy-as-code, or safe-by-default deployment patterns.
  • Experience operating Aurora PostgreSQL at scale, including backups, point-in-time recovery, failover, read replicas, and query tuning.
  • Comfort with Docker and container orchestration environments.
  • Reliability engineering experience involving SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
  • Curiosity about infrastructure requirements for AI and LLM workloads.
  • Strong written communication and documentation skills.

Benefits

  • 100% of employee and family medical premiums covered.
  • Vision and dental coverage.
  • 401(k), HSA, and FSA plans.
  • Access to a lender partner employee loan program.
  • Remote-first work arrangement.
  • Flexible time off.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSBuildkiteCloudflareDatadogDockerExpressGraphQLNode.jsReactRedisTerraformTypeScript

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About Loancrate

51-200 employees

Loancrate builds an AI‑native loan origination system for mortgage lenders, with features like AI‑powered document management, automated task lists, and configurable business rules. It sells the platform as enterprise SaaS to streamline underwriting and closing workflows and reduce manual processing. The company is privately held and targets the mortgage lending market, aiming to replace legacy LOS software with automation and hands‑on implementation support for lender teams.

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