Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Engineering at Valon

We are building a world-class 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. You’ll join a small, tight-knit 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 Valon’s 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.

As a member of the Platform team, you’ll be building services and tools that enable the entire engineering team to ship high quality software. In particular, we work on scaling our systems so they can support our growth as a business. For example, we support an internal product called Batch Processing that allows product teams to parallelize their workloads. We already process millions of workloads a day and are working on several hard problems to ensure our systems keep up.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to improve the reliability and velocity of our development processes.
• Design and build robust and extensible infrastructure to scale our systems to accurately handle hundreds of billions of dollars.
• Integrate tools to monitor the reliability, availability, and performance of our production systems and deploys.
• Prioritize and build the most important platform features for the engineering team.
• Learn new concepts and technologies quickly and apply them to challenging problems.
• Build a strong culture of incident response and blameless postmortems.

Ideal Background

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building quality software applications at scale.
• Strong communicator. Able to work cross-functionally to balance product and technical requirements.
• Experience with operating or building tooling around cloud platforms, orchestration, continuous delivery, testing, databases, security, and networking.
• Have an innate hunger to automate everything that you possibly can and the desire to troubleshoot complex problems.
• Believe in making data-driven decisions and strive to continually improve the ways to measure a system.
• Great at building scalable systems from scratch with a fast turnaround.
• Time management skills that will maximize efficiency in a fast paced startup environment.

Benefits

• Base Compensation Band: $175,000 - $205,000
• Compensation; competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program 
• Health & well-being; we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits, One medical membership, and Talkspace to provide mental health support
• Food & meal allowance; in-office snacks, drinks, Tuesday dinners, and $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries 
• Grow together; learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
• Equipment; we’ll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $200 stipend for your initial desk setup 
• Generous time off; paid time off, uncapped sick days, and 11 company holidays 
• Baby bonding time!; 3 months off for birthing parents and 2 months off for non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition