Senior Software Engineer

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 to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country.

Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more. 

• Loans Funded: $27 billion in loans funded
• Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country
• Geography: 45 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods
• Employees: Over 450 employees with competitive benefits and perks

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, while allowing our colleagues to work from the location that works best for them. For those who prefer to work in-office, we have locations in San Francisco and Pittsburgh. We also plan to use these spaces to bring together teammates to drive creativity and innovation.

Your day to day

• 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.
• 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.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for backend and full stack engineers. Our product-oriented teams are cross-functional and are able to work quickly without taking dependencies in order to deliver the most impact in the shortest amount of time. These cross-functional teams operate like small independent business units with their own goals that align with the company goals.

• Experience: You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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, Red