Software Engineer (long term contract)

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: $22 billion in loans funded 
• Homes financed: 71,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country
• Geography: 31 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods
• Employees: Over 400 employees with competitive benefits and perks

This position must be based remotely out of Mexico or Brazil and will be a long term contract. 

Your day to day

• Engineer: Implement well-tested features in our web applications and back-end loan origination services.
• Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality with thorough PR review, focusing on test automation using unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Reduce Technical Debt: Identify and act on opportunities to improve the existing code base before accomplishing the task at hand.
• Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.
• Collaborate: Work in a highly collaborative environment both closely with other engineers,and with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers.
• Think Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy.
• Define Technical Strategy: Build software consistent with the company’s technical strategy and architectural design. Contribute new ideas and improvements to the architecture.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for frontend, backend and full stack engineers. It all depends on where you can have the most impact. We have both functional and cross-functional teams. The 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 4+ years of professional experience and demonstrable areas of expertise.
• Team Player: You work in close collaboration with your teammates on a day-to-day basis, and with engineers on other teams when facing cross-cutting challenges. You are willing to ask for and give help.
• 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 understand product requirements and shape your work to achieve maximal impact. You use and improve on team processes and technologies and seek out and eliminate waste.
• Leadership: You show the ability to grow your leadership skills. You engage in peer-mentorship and focus on sharing your areas of expertise and strengths.

Nice to have

• Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Kotlin are the languages we use most. We expect that if you’ve learned more than one programming language you can learn ours.
• Frontend Frameworks: React, GraphQL, Next.js
• Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka
• Databases: Postgres, Redis
• Service Oriented Architecture: We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us.
• AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.

We are hiring for our Growth team: 

Growth

The Growth team is the most exciting team at Kiavi. Shh. Don’t tell the others. Growth works to improve loan volume and margin through feature work that meets our customers where they are. We work on a number of new initiatives to broaden and improve our existing financial products. This includes projects like taking Kiavi to new states, and broadening the capabilities of our short term loans to handle condominiums and new construction. Within this work is a license to improve and future proof existing architecture via modular and robust service oriented architecture.

Protect yourself from recruitment scams:

• If you are offered an interview or a role with Kiavi, this will be communicated with you through email, via an official email address ending in @kiavi.com or @lendinghome.com. 
• You will never be asked for payments of any kind during the process.
• We also never communicate with candidates via Whatsapp at any point during the recruitment process. 
• We won’t ask for personal information or data via text message. If you have any concerns regarding how genuine a text message is, please contact your recruiter.
• You can find our official Kiavi careers page here. We advise you to check that the page details and website addresses match if you have any concerns.

Kiavi is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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