Responsibilities
- Build and ship software for Pylon’s API-first mortgage platform.
- Work broadly across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and complex mortgage-domain problems.
- Improve code, product, infrastructure, maintainability, and toil reduction through proactive ownership.
- Make technical decisions under ambiguity and participate in vigorous discussions about engineering choices.
- Deliver reliable software in a federally and state-regulated industry where breaking things is not an option.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality software with strong ownership and limited direction.
- Strong opinions and willingness to defend technical decisions while constructively challenging others.
- Self-motivation, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to learn complex systems quickly.
- Interest in generalist engineering work rather than narrow specialization.
- Appreciation for strong typing, with familiarity or interest in technologies such as Haskell, Rust, Idris, and TypeScript.
- Prior experience with Pylon’s listed technologies is not required.
Benefits
- Stock options and the opportunity to own a piece of the company.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and dental benefits.
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About Pylon
The $13T mortgage industry at the heart of the American economy still runs on phone calls, browser tabs, and 20th-century workflows. While payments and banking moved into the API era, mortgage origination costs have doubled to $12,000 per loan, undermining originator economics and homeowner affordability. At Pylon, we aren’t optimizing around the edges…we’re rebuilding America’s mortgage infrastructure from the ground up. We’re the first vertically integrated mortgage infrastructure platform to automate the entire mortgage lifecycle, from application to settlement. We empower brokers, lenders, and fintechs to launch world-class mortgage products and make 102bps+ more per loan through: • Direct Wall Street pricing • 74% lower cost to originate • API-first extensibility We’re proud to power mortgage products for a growing portfolio of private and publicly traded companies. Our mission is backed by the architects of modern fintech, including Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury.