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The future of mortgage infrastructure
Software Engineer – Backend
Location
United States
Posted
145 days ago
Salary
$180K - $225K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer – Backend
Vesta
• You'll work alongside full-stack engineers, bringing deep backend and systems expertise to ensure the product functionality we build is scalable and reliable. • You will be partnering closely with product and engineering teammates to design, build, and operate backend systems that directly support customer-facing features as they grow in complexity and usage. • You’ll be expected to take ownership of the backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production and scale to ensure the product continues to perform reliably as the business grows. • We intentionally keep this role flexible and tailored to individual strengths. The areas below are not rigid requirements, but examples of experience that are especially relevant for the engineers we’re looking for:
Job Requirements
- Experience building and operating production-grade **distributed systems** that support real product functionality at meaningful scale
- Strong **backend engineering focus**; full-stack experience is welcome, but deep systems and backend expertise is essential
- Hands-on experience working with distributed systems and multi-service architectures in a production environment
- Ownership of **performance, reliability, and scalability** work tied directly to product features (e.g., query optimization, indexing, identifying and resolving system bottlenecks)
- Fluency in using modern **AI tooling** as part of your development workflow
- Proficiency in at least one strongly typed backend language (**C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar**)
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, preferably **PostgreSQL**, including schema design and performance tuning
- Familiarity with cloud-based production environments (**AWS preferred**), and experience with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or similar infrastructure components
- Strong **systems design** instincts, with the ability to reason about scalability, performance, and reliability tradeoffs as product features evolve
- Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, owning backend responsibilities end-to-end while collaborating closely with full-stack engineers
- Strong bias toward building practical, iterative solutions to real business problems, with minimal process overhead or unnecessary meetings
- Willingness to travel a few times per year for team offsites within the United States
Benefits
- Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums covered)
- FSA plan offering
- 401(K) plan offering
- Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!)
- Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the bay area!
- Generous Work From Anywhere & Wellness Benefits
- Monthly cell & wifi stipend
- Monthly Doordash benefits
- Open & encouraged flexible time off
- Company offsites to get to know the team!
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