Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description: Senior Software Engineer

As a titan in mortgage lending and digital financial solutions, Rate Companies proudly operates with more than 6,400 employees stationed across over 800 branches nationwide, including Washington, D.C. Founded in the year 2000, we’ve assisted more than 1 million homeowners with their home purchase loans and refinances. In 2022 alone, we managed a total loan volume exceeding $33 billion. But we’re more than just numbers; we’re about innovation, offering competitive rates, and delivering customer service, that’s second to none. Our accolades include Inside Mortgage Finance’s Second Largest Retail Originator for 2023, Chicago Agent’s Lender of the Year for the 7 th consecutive year, Scotsman’s Guide 2022 ranking for having more top originators than any other lenders, NerdWallet’s Best Lenders for Low and No-Down-Payment Mortgages of 2022, and Forbes’ Best Online Lender for First-Time Homebuyers in 2022. For more information, visit rate.com.

What Makes Our Team Awesome

We are a gritty group of passionate technologists on a mission to dominate the mortgage world!

The Information Technology Team within Rate passionately and consistently puts our customers first. We are building the latest technology to help create the best mortgage experience on the planet and get your mortgage, your way, anytime, anywhere. Whether that is improving our digital mortgage platform, automating loan coordination and underwriting processes, or building out the latest marketing and customer engagement platform, we’re doing it all. We build high-performing, self-organized, cross-functional agile teams that operate with minimal hierarchy. Information Technology team members hold themselves and others accountable and live and breathe the tenets of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

What’s the Role?

We are looking for a back-end software developer who is experienced in AWS and integrating with internal and third-party systems. You'll collaborate with top-talent designers and developers while working with the latest technologies. You will also be responsible for collaborating with other developers in architecture, design and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Minimally 75% of your time will be hands-on coding - more is better. The remaining allocation will focus on design and future state concepts.
• We have a teaching & learning culture, bring something to teach and be good at growing junior engineers.
• It’s a complicated industry and you need to communicate well with business stakeholders.
• Aid in improving standards and practices on your team (reviewing pull requests, testing, deployment, etc).

Qualifications

• BS, Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent experience ideal
• 5+ years of professional programming with 2+ years of JavaScript experience focused on back-end web development with Node.js, GraphQL and REST APIs
• 3+ years experience with AWS Services or equivalent (Azure, Google) – Lambda, Amplify, API Gateway, SQS, Cognito, DynamoDB, CloudFormation
• 3+ years experience working with server web frameworks (we use Node.js and Amplify)
• 3+ years experience working with relational/NoSQL databases (we use PostgreSQL, DynamoDb)
• 3+ years experience with cloud deployments and CI tools a plus (we use AWS/Github Actions/ Serverless or equivalent Terraform experience)
• Expertise in writing well tested JavaScript (Jest)
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Working knowledge of client-side web frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
• Experience with ETL, API integrations (including OAuth authentication) and automation concepts a plus
• Ability to understand business goals, recognize client needs and link them to specific
• technical solutions
• Quick learner with a passion to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Mortgage or Finance industry experience and knowledge a plus

Other Useful Details

Employee Type: Full-Time

Pay Range: $140,000-$160,000 annual pay + bonus and/or commissions

Location: Remote

Applications are being accepted for the next 30 days

Rate Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reason protected by law.

The company offers a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; critical care insurance; personal accidental insurance; commuter benefits; pet insurance; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program); and other supplemental benefits (e.g. legal planning assistance; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness resources).

Please click this link to learn more about our benefit offerings for Washington State: https://www.rate.com/careers/open-positions/disclosures

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