Base Salary
$140k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, monitor, and improve infrastructure supporting highly available mortgage transaction systems.
- Build tooling and infrastructure that improve builds, tests, deployments, and developer productivity.
- Maintain code quality, teach best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
- Respond to incidents and build systems and practices that prevent future failures.
- Work directly with internal engineering customers and incorporate their feedback.
Requirements
- Deep curiosity and willingness to solve difficult problems.
- Ability to own features from design through development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Experience building reliable systems under pressure is sought.
- Willingness to mentor junior engineers and help establish software engineering best practices.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are provided.
- Location: Palo Alto, California.
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.