Software Engineer

Summary

Join Better, a reimagined home finance company, as a Full Stack Software Engineer. You will play a key role in building and maintaining our internal, proprietary Loan Origination System (LOS) platform, collaborating with various teams to design features and automation that simplify and scale operations. This high-impact role offers a fast-paced environment where your work directly influences company growth. You will maintain and iterate on the LOS, focusing on enhancing the digital mortgage origination process. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and close work with product and compliance teams. You will design, develop, and deploy scalable software, build and consume RESTful APIs, and ensure high reliability and performance on AWS. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to a successful and innovative company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and ReactJS
• Solid experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset
• Action-oriented and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, startup environment

Responsibilities

• Maintain and iterate our proprietary Loan Origination Systemwith a focus on enhancing the digital mortgage origination process
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify pain points and build automation tools and workflows
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable software utilizing a variety of technologies and programming languages
• Build and consume RESTful APIs to integrate internal systems and third-party services
• Work closely with product and compliance teams to gather requirements, provide technical insights, ensure technical solutions meet regulatory requirements and improve the digital mortgage origination experience
• Proactively identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, an/or product areas
• Deploy and manage services on AWS, ensuring high reliability and performance
• Write clean, testable code and participate in peer code reviews

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility effective DAY ONE
• $0 medical plan premium offering coverage nationwide paired with our Health Savings Account that includes an employer contribution
• Additional Medical, dental, vision plan options also all with nationwide coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Immediate virtual mental health support by licensed therapists for our employees and their eligible dependents age 6 and up! First few visits at no cost to you!
• Personalized care for every fertility and family care journey for our employees and their partner!
• Dependent care benefits (i.e. childcare and/or elder care costs) include a company match
• Discount programs and perks including pet Insurance!