Base Salary
$130k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Model complex, real-world mortgage and lending scenarios in clean, reliable code.
- Build features and fixes based on immediate customer problems and feedback.
- Own solutions end to end, including coding, production deployment, and long-term maintenance.
- Improve product correctness, usability, performance, and attention to detail for mortgage users.
- Work across frontend and API layers to help customers close loans quickly and confidently.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to own features from design through development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Deep curiosity and willingness to solve complex domain problems and difficult technical challenges.
- Ability to work directly from customer feedback and deliver reliable, detail-oriented software.
- Experience with the stated full-stack technology environment is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are offered.
- The role is based in Palo Alto, California.
- Base salary is listed at $140,000-$220,000 per year.
Tech Stack
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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.