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VestaVestaUnited States

Software Engineer - Platform

Builds and scales distributed platform systems for AI-powered mortgage origination, focusing on performance engineering across AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, databases, and observability tools. Senior-level role requiring full-stack ownership in early-stage startup.

200k – 275k/yr
RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Scale and mature platform to handle entire mortgage market.
  • Work across entire codebase with primary focus on platform scaling.
  • Help set guidelines and frameworks for engineering organization, including technical tooling and organizational growth.

Requirements

  • Deep experience scaling distributed systems with complex data dependencies.
  • Performance engineering experience in: AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL (or similar relational database), Redis, Elasticsearch.
  • Strong proficiency with C# or other statically typed languages such as Kotlin, Go, or Java.
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
  • Comfortable in early-stage startup environment with occasional extra hours for mission-critical work.

Perks & Benefits

  • Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% employee premiums covered).
  • FSA and 401(K) plans.
  • 16 weeks fully paid parental leave.
  • Remote-first with Bay Area hub.
  • Monthly stipends for cell, wifi, Doordash; flexible time off; company offsites.

Cash compensation: $200,000 - $250,000/yr (final offer based on experience).

Skills

C#AWSKubernetesKafkaPostgresRedisElasticsearchDatadogTerraformGoJavaKotlin

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