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Backend Engineer, API
Builds and maintains a production GraphQL API modeling complex, nonlinear mortgage processes. Designs event-driven systems, semantic models, and developer-friendly abstractions using TypeScript, NestJS, and Temporal.io.
130k – 220kPalo Alto, CASan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybrid
About the role
Responsibilities
- Define semantic models for mortgages in code, expanding what a mortgage can be — product design at the API layer.
- Build toward an event-driven API that responds to requests and proactively informs about events, reasons, and next actions.
- Make complex mortgage processes feel simple through thoughtful abstractions, clear documentation, and focus on developer experience.
- Design for nonlinearity, encoding choice, branching, and path-dependence natively for guided experiences.
- Treat the API as a product surface: manage breaking changes, versioning, onboarding, and full lifecycle.
Tech Stack
- TypeScript
- GraphQL (core product)
- NestJS
- SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Temporal.io (workflow orchestration)
- Event-driven architecture
- AI-driven development tooling and agentic infrastructure
Requirements
- Deeply curious.
- Owns features from design to development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Willing to solve the hardest problems.
Skills
TypeScriptGraphQLNestjsPostgresTemporal.IoSQLEvent-Driven Architecture
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