Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Kiavi, a leading private lender to residential real estate investors, and become a key member of our engineering team. We offer a hybrid distributed work environment, allowing you to work remotely or in our San Francisco or Pittsburgh offices. As an engineer, you will architect and own significant portions of our loan origination platform, maintain high code quality through rigorous testing, and contribute to reducing technical debt. You will collaborate closely with design, product, and business teams to deliver high-impact solutions for our customers. We seek experienced software engineers with a product-focused mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and excellent communication abilities. Kiavi provides competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience
• You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products
• You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail
• You are candid and honest. You can adapt your communication style to different audiences and you can effectively communicate in writing and in person or on a video call
• You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow
• You are able to get a lot done quickly. You are willing to introduce new processes and technologies to the team that will improve productivity across the whole engineering team
• You show the ability to grow into a company leader. You will work with other leaders across the company to build company culture and to help shape the company’s future

Responsibilities

• Architect and own large parts of our complex loan origination platform and associated web applications
• Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality through peer-reviewed designs and code, focusing on test automation using unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Reduce Technical Debt: We allocate a certain percentage of each team’s time to tackling engineering initiatives focused on reducing tech debt. Every engineer contributes to these initiatives
• Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis
• Collaborate: Work closely with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers
• Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy
• Define Technical Strategy: You’ll own technical strategy for broad or complex requirements and come up with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript and Kotlin although we are generally language agnostic. We expect that if you’ve learned more than one programming language you can learn ours
• Frontend Frameworks: React and GraphQL
• Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka
• Databases: Postgres, Redis
• Service Oriented Architecture: We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us
• AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Kiavi offers free employee-only coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans. Dependents receive a heavily discounted premium, competitively placed in the 90th percentile for cost
• Health Savings Account (HSA): For those enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), Kiavi provides an annual employer contribution to HSAs: $500 for individual coverage and $1,000 for dependents
• Disability and Life Insurance: Immediate access to short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as group life and AD&D insurance, with coverage at 1x annual salary
• Remote Work Policy: Kiavi supports working remotely for day to day activities for most roles and occasionally may ask employees to gather in person for key meetings, trainings, team building etc. For remote workers, Kiavi offers a one-time office setup reimbursement of up to $500 and a monthly $75 stipend for internet and phone expenses. For in-office workers, Kiavi offers employer contributions to commuter benefits account, either for parking or public transportation
• Flexible Time Off: Employees are empowered to manage their own time off, with no strict limits, as long as it's approved by their manager
• Paid Leaves: Up to 8 weeks of paid leave for medical or caregiver purposes, and 12 weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave. Short-term disability leave is also available for birthing mothers
• 401(k) & Company Match: A 401(k) plan managed by Fidelity, with Kiavi matching 100% of contributions up to 3% of compensation or $4,000 (whichever is less). All employer contributions are immediately vested
• Product Ownership: All employees think like an owner because all employees play a critical role in making our business great. Many roles are eligible for stock option grants