Software Engineer - New Grad at Pylon Menlo Park, CA

Pylon; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

Pylon is looking for a Software Engineer - New Grad in Menlo Park, CA, to join their innovative team focused on mortgage solutions. Candidates should be self-motivated with the ability to learn quickly and tackle complex challenges. You will help drive the development of a cutting-edge API-driven platform while working closely with a high-performing, collaborative team.

We offer stock options, health insurance, and a unique opportunity to shape the future of mortgage services.

Qualifications

• Able to defend strong technical opinions during discussions.
• Must consistently deliver exceptional code and improve where necessary.
• Able to quickly absorb and implement complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building a challenging and innovative product.
• Collaborate with a high-performing team on technical decisions.
• Drive towards goals independently without micromanagement.

Skills

Strong opinions on technical decisions

Self-motivated

Comfortable with ambiguity

Knowledge of SQL

Fast learner

Strong typing in programming

Tools

Typescript

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

NestJS

AWS

Job description

Software Engineer - New Grad job at Pylon. Menlo Park, CA.

At Pylon, we’re a small team building a very ambitious product in the mortgage space.

At this early stage, we’re looking for engineers who can see the opportunity of what we’re building towards and want to have a hand in building it.

We’re in search of people who find difficult problems invigorating and who fit well into a high‑performing team built on mutual respect and reliance. If you like pushing yourself to learn a massive amount while shipping code that has a huge impact on the end product, Pylon Engineering could be a great place for you.

About you

You:

• Have strong opinions that you’re willing to defend. We have a culture of vigorous discussion and debate on technical decisions. We’ll push you to defend your choices, and we want you to push back.

• Don't settle. Challenge yourself to frequently and consistently deliver exceptional code. If something could be better, take the initiative to improve it.

• Have great ideas, and lots of them. You should see opportunities all around you to make the code, product and infrastructure better. We’ll give you an environment where you can act on those ideas.

• Are self‑motivated. You can take a goal and drive towards it without needing extensive hand‑holding. The team is supportive and loves to share knowledge and advice, but there’s no time for micromanaging your work.

• Are comfortable with ambiguity. There’s a million ways to do things; you should feel at ease making a decision under uncertainty while balancing competing constraints.

• Are confident you can learn quickly. Mortgage is complex, our platform is complex, good software engineering is complex. You’ve got to have an attitude that you can absorb it, get on top of it, and build something better than what came before.

• Love strong typing. We’re a team full of people who love Haskell and Rust (and Idris!) and take pride in pushing Typescript to its limits.

• Know SQL. We use an ORM and query builder, but it’s a thin wrapper over SQL. You’ve got to know SQL inside and out to really be successful.

What we’re not:

• Building a CRUD app:

• An easy job:

What we are:

• A small team:

• Working in a regulated space:

About the Job

Basics

• Job title: Software Engineer - New Grad

• Stock options: own a piece of the company and we all win together

• Health insurance, dental, etc.

Our technology stack:

We don’t require that you’ve worked with any of these technologies before, this is just our stack for your information:

• Typescript front and backend

• Web components

• GraphQL

• PostgreSQL

• NestJS web framework

• Nx build system

• Sagittarius

• AWS stack using CDK for declarative infrastructure

• General philosophy: monolith until it hurts. If we can do something without introducing a new service, we will

About Pylon

Pylon is the first API‑driven Mortgage‑as‑a‑Service platform. We are building a set of APIs to allow companies to build mortgage services. Customers rely on us to manage a core part of their business.

Pylon is partnered with financial institutions such as Bayview, Neuberger Bergman, UWM, and First American as well as backed by investors such as Conversion Capital, QED, Fifth Wall, Peter Thiel, Montage Ventures, and Village Global.