Base Salary
$130k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Encode natural-language mortgage and regulatory rules into executable code using DSLs and AI-related techniques.
- Collaborate directly with mortgage experts to understand rules, nuance, exceptions, and domain-specific requirements.
- Design systems where correctness and precision are critical, including robust test coverage and failure-mode analysis.
- Apply AI to mortgage underwriting and help define new approaches for the industry.
- Automate complex, regulated mortgage processes.
Requirements
- Deep curiosity and willingness to solve difficult problems.
- Ability to own features from design through development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Willingness to work hard and take ownership in a fast-paced, high-agency environment.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are provided.
- The role is located in Palo Alto, California.
Tech Stack
Categories
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.