Staff Software Engineer

About the Company

Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys but lasts far beyond. Were creating a world where home ownership comes with ease security and financial knowhow. Our growing team of engineers operators product enthusiasts and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicingthe process of paying off ones mortgageValon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner and lender at a time.

Engineering at Valon

We are building a worldclass engineering team to automate one of the most regulated spaces in the financial sector the mortgage and housing industry. We come from companies like Google Facebook Spotify Oscar Health and Twilio. Youll join a small tightknit group of engineers who are developing flexible backend architecture to accurately handle billions of dollars at scale. In addition our team of engineers is fulfilling Valons mission by creating a great user experience to help homeowners manage their mortgages through a platform that delivers new features quickly and with quality. Our tech stack is built on Python React Docker Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.

Our headquarters are in New York City and this year were excited to open a new office in San Francisco. Plus we fully support remote work!

Responsibilities

• Learn new concepts and technologies quickly and apply them to challenging problems
• Design and build robust and extensible infrastructure to handle evolving and complex federal state and agency regulations
• Dive deep to understand the inner workings of a highly complex industry
• Work with Product and Design to define the best experience for our customers

Ideal Background

• 7 years of software engineering experience building quality software applications at scale
• Strong communicator
• Able to work crossfunctionally to balance product and technical requirements
• Great at building scalable systems from scratch with a fast turnaround
• Experience with one or more of the following: web application development mobile application development building largescale distributed systems or infrastructure management
• Time management skills that will maximize efficiency in a fastpaced startup environment

Benefits

• Base Compensation Band: $210000$275000. Base salary offered is determined by a number of factors including the candidates experience qualifications and skills.
• Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and 401k plan
• Health & wellbeing: well invest in your physical and mental wellbeing with comprehensive medical dental & vision benefits
• Commuter benefits: We offer pretax deductions for public transportation rideshare services and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient.
• Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
• Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag cooking classes or team dinners!
• Generous time off: flexible paid time off sick days and 11 company holidays
• Baby bonding time!: 12 weeks off for both birthing and nonbirthing parents fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition