Software Engineer - Backend
Vesta Innovations Inc.7 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and scale backend systems that support customer-facing product functionality.
- Own backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production.
- Build and operate production-grade distributed systems at meaningful scale.
- Work with multi-service architectures and collaborate closely with full-stack, product, and engineering teammates.
- Own performance, reliability, and scalability improvements, including query optimization, indexing, and resolving system bottlenecks.
- Make systems design decisions balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and product delivery.
- Operate with high autonomy and take end-to-end responsibility for backend features.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering focus with deep systems expertise; full-stack experience is welcome.
- Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems supporting real product functionality at meaningful scale.
- Hands-on experience with multi-service architectures in production.
- Proficiency in at least one strongly typed backend language such as C#, Java, Kotlin, or Go.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with cloud-based production environments, preferably AWS, and infrastructure components such as Kafka or Redis.
- Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about scalability, performance, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Experience owning performance, reliability, and scalability work tied to product features.
- Fluency in using modern AI tooling as part of the development workflow.
- Comfort with high autonomy, practical iterative solutions, and occasional effort outside typical working hours in an early-stage startup.
- Willingness to travel a few times per year for team offsites within the United States.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage with approximately 100% of employee premiums covered.
- Flexible Spending Account plan and 401(k) plan.
- Sixteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptions.
- Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the Bay Area.
- Work-from-anywhere and wellness benefits.
- Monthly cell phone and Wi-Fi stipend.
- Monthly DoorDash benefits.
- Flexible time off and company offsites.
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About Vesta Innovations Inc.
Vesta builds a cloud-based, AI-augmented mortgage loan origination system used by banks and mortgage lenders to streamline and automate underwriting and closing workflows. The company sells its LOS as enterprise SaaS with configurable workflows and integrations to lenders’ existing systems. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, it reports measurable cost reductions for large U.S. mortgage lenders after switching to its platform.