Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data &amp; 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 <a href="https://www.kiavi.com/news">many more</a>.  <ul> <li>Loans Funded: $27 billion in loans funded</li> <li>Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country</li> <li>Geography: 45 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods</li> <li>Employees: Over 450 employees with competitive benefits and perks</li> </ul> This position must be based remotely out of Mexico or Brazil and will be a long term contract.  <hr /> Your day to day <ul> <li>Engineer: Implement well-tested features in our web applications and back-end loan origination services.</li> <li>Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality with thorough PR review, focusing on test automation using unit, integration and end-to-end testing.</li> <li>Reduce Technical Debt: Identify and act on opportunities to improve the existing code base before accomplishing the task at hand.</li> <li>Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Think Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy.</li> <li>Define Technical Strategy: Build software consistent with the company’s technical strategy and architectural design. Contribute new ideas and improvements to the architecture.</li> </ul> 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.  <ul> <li>Experience: You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience and have worked in ruby on rails, javascript, python, kotlin.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Product focused: You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products.</li> <li>Problem solver: You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Self-driven: You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> Nice to have <ul> <li>Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Kotlin are the languages we use most. </li> <li>Frontend Frameworks: React, GraphQL, Next.js</li> <li>Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka</li> <li>Databases: Postgres, Redis</li> <li>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.</li> <li>AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.</li> </ul> <hr /> Protect yourself from recruitment scams: <ul> <li>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. </li> <li>You will never be asked for payments of any kind during the process.</li> <li>We also never communicate with candidates via Whatsapp at any point during the recruitment process. </li> <li>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.</li> <li>You can find our official Kiavi careers <a href="https://www.kiavi.com/careers">page here</a>. We advise you to check that the page details and website addresses match if you have any concerns.</li> </ul> <hr /> <h5>Kiavi is an Equal Opportunity Employer<a href="http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/11600-Art%20%2049%20Official%20Notice%20Final%20091114.pdf" target="_blank"> San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Police Code, Article 49</a></h5>

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