Sobre

• Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses.
• Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country.
• Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more.
• Loans Funded: $27 billion in loans funded
• Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country
• Geography: 45 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods
• Employees: Over 450 employees with competitive benefits and perks
• This position must be based remotely out of Mexico or Brazil and will be a long term contract.
• Your day to day
• Engineer: Implement well-tested features in our web applications and back-end loan origination services.
• Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality with thorough PR review, focusing on test automation using unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Reduce Technical Debt: Identify and act on opportunities to improve the existing code base before accomplishing the task at hand.
• Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.
• Collaborate: Work in a highly collaborative environment both closely with other engineers,and with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers.
• Think Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy.
• Define Technical Strategy: Build software consistent with the company’s technical strategy and architectural design. Contribute new ideas and improvements to the architecture.
• Who we’re looking for
• We are looking for backend and full stack engineers. The emphasis will be on the back end. We have both functional and cross-functional teams. The product-oriented teams are cross-functional and are able to work quickly without taking dependencies in order to deliver the most impact in the shortest amount of time. These cross-functional teams operate like small independent business units with their own goals that align with the company goals.
• Experience: You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience and have worked in ruby on rails, javascript, python
• Team Player: You work in close collaboration with your teammates on a day-to-day basis, and with engineers on other teams when facing cross-cutting challenges. You are willing to ask for and give help.
• Product focused: You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products.
• Problem solver: You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail.
• Great communicator: You are candid and honest. You can adapt your communication style to different audiences and you can effectively communicate in writing and in person or on a video call.
• Self-driven: You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow.
• Productive/Impact-oriented: You understand product requirements and shape your work to achieve maximal impact. You use and improve on team processes and technologies and seek out and eliminate waste.
• Leadership: You show the ability to grow your leadership skills. You engage in peer-mentorship and focus on sharing your areas of expertise and strengths.
• Nice to have
• Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Kotlin are the languages we use most.
• Frontend Frameworks: React, GraphQL, Next.js
• Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka
• Databases: Postgres, Redis
• Service Oriented Architecture: We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us.
• AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.

Protect yourself from recruitment scams

• If you are offered an interview or a role with Kiavi, this will be communicated with you through email, via an official email address ending in @kiavi.com or @lendinghome.com.
• You will never be asked for payments of any kind during the process.
• We also never communicate with candidates via Whatsapp at any point during the recruitment process.
• We won’t ask for personal information or data via text message. If you have any concerns regarding how genuine a text message is, please contact your recruiter.
• You can find our official Kiavi careers page here. We advise you to check that the page details and website addresses match if you have any concerns.
• Kiavi is an Equal Opportunity Employer
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Police Code, Article 49