Who You Are:
You have 6+ years of software development experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative engineering team, where you will have a direct impact in the delivery of first class software products. Your experience mentoring others, working with distributed systems, relational databases, and all things software development has prepared you to take your career to the next level.
Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!
What you’ll do:
- Design & develop scalable, public-facing APIs and SDKs
- Build and enhance mission-critical third-party integrations
- Develop backend services using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS
- Implement and manage OpenAPI specifications
- Design and develop event-driven architectures
- Diagnose and resolve technical problems; build unit tests and automation to ensure the quality of your features
- Maintain existing code and write code that is easily maintainable through documentation, good architecture and automated testing
- Define, discuss and work with the team on the architecture of the platform
- Actively participate in interviewing and evaluating new team members
- Provide vision and direction for software development best practices & methodologies
- Mentor junior members of the software engineering team in all aspects of software development across multiple projects with multiple customers
- Prioritize your work and the work of others with a sense of urgency to ship products in time to have the desired business impact
- Review code, help drive technical excellence through best practices and latest tools
- Maintain a working knowledge of advances and trends in programming and technology
- Generate ideas for innovative technological solutions
What you have:
- Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, and continuous development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-9 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 4-7 years’ experience
- Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
- Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
- Experience developing transactional systems, where concurrency, race conditions, and data consistency are a concern
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs using OpenAPI
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL
Extras you bring to the table:
- Experience working with TypeScript, JavaScript, or Vue.js,
- Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
- Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
- Experience with functional/acceptance testing
Why join Polly?
- We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
- We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
- Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
- Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
- Competitive salaries
- 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance
- Flexible vacation
- Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas
Let’s get to know each other.
Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Beware of recruitment scams impersonating Polly brand or employees. Our team communicates only through official Polly channels, and we will never ask for sensitive information over text or conduct text-only interviews. If you are ever suspicious or in doubt, reach out to us directly at [email protected]. We care deeply about this network and your experience.
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What We Do
The secondary market for mortgages accounts for over $1T in annual volume and impacts 20% of GDP. Yet, the pricing and loan trading of mortgages is still often done with antiquated technology, excel spreadsheets, phone calls, and physical paper. Billions of dollars are lost to inefficiency and mistakes.
Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem that includes an advanced Product & Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, Analytics Platform, and Partner Platform. Our mission is to help capital markets and secondary teams operate smarter, more efficiently, and more profitably with best-in-class, end-to-end technology that is configured for each of our customers’ unique workflows and business needs.
Polly is based in San Francisco, California. Please visit www.polly.io to learn more.
