Staff Backend Engineer
Job Description
Novaprime is a forward-thinking mortgage technology company dedicated to revolutionizing the mortgage industry. Our mission is to make homeownership more affordable and accessible. We accomplish our goals by focusing on outcomes, working with existing industry participants, and deploying emerging technologies. Novaprime is backed by one of the largest mortgage companies in the world and leading Silicon Valley investors while partnered with major technology providers and serving major financial institutions, mortgage companies, and GSEs.
We seek an exceptional and skilled Staff Backend Engineer to work with the Mortgage Technology Platform Team. You will develop and drive solutions leveraging cloud technologies like AWS and Kubernetes; back-end technologies like OpenAPI, NestJS, BullMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL; and blockchain technology (specifically Canton by digitalasset.com). Also, as a part of this role you will be working closely on API integrations with our partners. The goal is to enable our company's mission of making home ownership more affordable.
Responsibilities:
- Implement new technologies that yield competitive advantages.
- Support the company's infrastructure to ensure optimal performance.
- Monitor system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
- Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to develop strategies and implement new products and features.
- Stay current with the latest technologies to maintain competitiveness and technological leadership in the market.
- Various engineering-related tasks which continue to progress the organization's mission.
The Mortgage Technology Platform team is working on an efficient mortgage delivery system, focusing on APIs for loan management, data modeling, persistence layer integration, partner integration, and observability.
We offer competitive salary, equity, and benefits, as well as remote work opportunity with the optionality to create an office for the product and engineering team. Join us in making a difference in the mortgage industry!
Responsibilities For Staff Backend Engineer
- Implement new technologies that yield competitive advantages
- Support the company's infrastructure to ensure optimal performance
- Monitor system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Build quality assurance and data protection processes
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to develop strategies and implement new products and features
- Stay current with the latest technologies to maintain competitiveness and technological leadership in the market
- Various engineering-related tasks which continue to progress the organization's mission
Requirements For Staff Backend Engineer
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of industry experience
- Track record working with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to land new features for users
- Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Experience designing production data models for a performant and scalable application
- Deep experience with distributed systems and patterns
- Written and verbal communication skills, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Positive and solution-oriented mindset
Benefits For Staff Backend Engineer
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Remote work opportunity
- Optionality to create an office for the product and engineering team
