Senior Software Engineer

Description

• Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs).

• We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses.

• Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock.

• This position can be based remotely in any of our approved hiring regions.

• Our hybrid distributed workforce philosophy allows us to find the best talent in the country and build diverse teams.

• Engineer: 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.

• Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.

Requirements

• Experience: You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience. Good with Javascript/typescript/node.js/react

• Product focused: You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products.

• Problem solver: You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail.

• Great communicator: 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.

• Self-driven: You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow.

• Productive/Impact-oriented: 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.

• Leadership: 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.

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 $85 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 $6,000 (whichever is less). All employer contributions are immediately vested.

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