Who You Are:
You have 6+ years of software development experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative engineering team, where you will have a direct impact in the delivery of first class software products. Your experience mentoring others, working with distributed systems, relational databases, and all things software development has prepared you to take your career to the next level.
Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!
What you’ll do:
Develop and maintain mission-critical services using Python, Django, JavaScript, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and AWS
Take ownership of technical solutions from planning to production deployment
Diagnose and resolve technical problems; build unit tests and automation to ensure the quality of your features
Create maintainable code through thoughtful documentation, clean architecture, and comprehensive testing
Shape the architecture by contributing to key decisions about the platform's current design and future direction.
Actively participate in interviewing and evaluating new team members
Guide engineering practices and establish pragmatic standards for code quality
Support junior team members through mentorship and technical guidance
Review code, help drive technical excellence through best practices and latest tools
Maintain a working knowledge of advances and trends in programming and technology
What you have:
Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, and continuous development
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-9 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 4-7 years’ experience
Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
Strong expertise in modern frontend technologies—JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks like React or Vue, with a focus on building scalable and user-friendly applications.
Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
Experience developing transactional systems, where concurrency, race conditions, and data consistency are a concern
Experience working with relational databases and SQL
Extras you bring:
Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
Experience with functional/acceptance testing
Why join Polly?
We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
Competitive salaries
100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance
Flexible vacation
Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas
Let’s get to know each other.
Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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