We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Python/Java or similar language; an expert in majority of language constructs, able to apply them fluently to solve complicated and complex problems and have experience with performance tuning.

What You’ll Do:

Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them
Take ownership over core product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love and prove through data that it is impactful at scale
Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you

Required Skills and Education:

Minimum of 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Minimum of 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience (Java and/or Python)
Minimum of 8+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Must have experience designing a non-trivial distributed system (multi-tier) - storage layers, caching layers, application layers, understanding of failure modes, expertise with applying a strangler-pattern to transform a system from a monolith to a microservice architecture
Must have Microservice Architecture experience, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems
Experience working with complex systems migration involving multiple phases with dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
Positions are remote, but some travel to DC, approx. 10-25%